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27 kilometers 15 miles At 6am someone’s alarm went off in the room where we were sleeping. No. Shhh Shhh Shhh.. I heard a man say to his alarm as he turned it off and went back to sleep.Now awake after a fitful night of sleep, I stuffed my sleeping bag liner into it’s tony pouch …
Camino de Santiago: Arrival in St Jean Pied-de-Port I stepped off the bus after its arrival in St Jean Pied-de-Port and immediately walked up into a small park that overlooked the road. I found an empty bench above the vineyard covered hills and sat down to breathe in the presence of this place I’ve …
Snapshots of Burgos, Spain. or The End of the Journey. This post is from the end of our walk from Logrono to Burgos, Spain. You can read more posts from this walk, or from other Camino trips. In my longtime obsession with the Camino, I have read quite a bit about the different cities that you …
Atapuerca to Burgos 19 kilometers. Day 7 on The Camino. Or We Made It! Let’s Have A PARTY and Eat All The Things. This post is our trip log from Atapuerca to Burgos. You can read more posts from this walk, or from other Camino trips. We got up and packed fast, walking out …
Villafranca to Atapuerca. 18 kilometers. Day 6 on The Camino. Or Remember That One Time We Slept In A Barn. This post is our trip log from Villafranca to Atapuerca. You can read more posts from this walk, or from other Camino trips. One of the reasons our albergue in Villafranca was full, besides …
Belorado to Villafranca Montes de Oca. 12 kilometers. Day 5 on The Camino. Or We Walked In The Snow But This Day Was Still My Favorite. This post is our trip log from Belorado to Villafranca Montes de Oca. You can read more posts from this walk, or from other Camino trips. We got out …
Navarrete to Najera. 18 kilometers, Day 2 on The Camino Or It rained and then the sun came out. This post is our trip log from Navarrete to Najera. You can read more posts from this walk, or from other Camino trips. Some nights of sleep are so bad that you are just relieved to wake …
Logrono to Navarrete. At 12 kilometers, Day 1 on The Camino could also be titled: Let’s Ease Into This, Shall We? We didn’t wake up early in Logrono. It was probably around 10am when we walked out of our little flat in Logrono and stepped onto the Camino. We knew we were starting with a …
Camino Beginnings or How You Know It’s Time to Go For A Long Walk in Spain The Camino de Santiago. It’s one of my favorite trails in the world. Not necessarily because of its beauty (though it is beautiful), but (and I realize how cheesy this sounds) what I really love is the Spirit of the …
THE WAY: Summary Of Writing From Sarria to Santiago Friends, thank you so much for walking this pilgrimage with me! It has been a joy to share the adventure with you. I’ve enjoyed writing about our time on the Camino. For me, it’s like re-living the beautiful days on the trail to write about them. …
On the Camino de Santiago, lots of folks head off to a place called Finisterre after reaching Santiago. There is a tradition of going to the sea to unburden yourself of your belongings. It’s a second and more final ending to your journey. But we really just wanted a day by the sea. So when …
I’m reaching the end of my stories and snippets from the Camino de Santiago, and I feel similar to how I felt about finishing the journey in June. A little sad. The treasure in blogging is that I get to relive the memories as I tell the stories. And the princesses have relived them with me. …
LynEtte, Alison, Stephanie and Diane. We declared ourselves to be pilgrims on the road to Santiago. But before we ever started out on the trail, we had a hunch that we were taking The Way a little easier than most. (Camino Lightweights, if you will.) For starters, we were only doing the last stage, by …
Live The Way: Make Friends Jerry, come and have a look at these girls. They already have their seashells on their packs and they haven’t walked one step of the Camino yet. They’ve already been to the Pilgrims’ Mass! Two brothers, ages 67 and 70, had completed all but the last stage of the Camino …
An ode to the food along the Camino de Santiago! The last stage of The Way is in Galicia, a region of Spain known for fresh seafood and red table wine. We tried loads of new foods on our adventure and we definitely found a few new favorites. The octopus is a local specialty. As is the …
We took our Camino Theme of Live The Way to heart when it came to stopping for photographs. We felt the freedom to stop for anything along the trail that we felt was beautiful. After years of walking trails with the men in my life, being able to stop whenever I feel like it is a …
While walking along The Way, every night we needed somewhere to sleep. A place to lay our heads and rest our weary bones. Sometimes it was a cabin on a farm, set back from the farmer’s vineyard and vegetable garden. And then he would feed us from his farm. Sometimes it was a room with a sunset view …
I’ve already mentioned that part of how we embraced our theme of Live The Way was that we stopped constantly. On our third day, we had fewer miles to cover so we just meandered from one stop to the next, and were treated with wonderful surprises all day long. This is the story of Day …
If there is a better-marked trail in the world than the Camino de Santiago, I would love to know about it. The seashells, crosses and yellow arrows appear constantly along the path. You can see them on the ground. They are crafted with mosaics or set into paving stones. They are painted on signs for …
Your credencial or the Pilgrim’s Passport is an essential part of walking The Way. We were told that we would need our first stamp from one of the three churches in Sarria, where we were beginning our journey. Up on a hill we found a monastery, a place for pilgrims to worship and pray, as well …