Category: travel
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Stairway to Heaven
Day 15, Day 8 on the Camino Lordy, oh Lordy, oh LORDY – am I ever happy to have this day of our trek behind us!!! After a mellow hour of meandering through a couple of quaint and “strangely medieval” villages, a coffee break at a self service, “donitivo cafe” with coffee in a thermos,…
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Today Marks One Week of Walking!!
Today’s walk had us traveling five hours from A Gudina to Campobecerros through hill and dale, Extreme uphills and Equally Extreme downhills, massive rolling stretches of even more purple heather than yesterday, vast views of waterways, train tracks, tiny villages and trailways that seemed impossibly distant yet that we did in fact reach and walk…
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Easter Sunday on the Camino
Day 13, Day 6 on the Camino What a Most Spectacular day today!!! We headed out at 6:30, thinking that our housemates were leaving after 7:00 based on their comments last night. It appeared to be a competition when most of those in line for the one bathroom were from “the other tribe” and two…
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Easter Sunday Walking in Spain
DAY 12, Day 5 on The Camino Further schedule and route adjustments became necessary since we are eight in number. There were NO places with enough beds for us in the next 44 kilometers!! So, we agreed to walk 7 miles to Mombuey, & as advised, catch a 2:00 bus to Lubian (which would get…
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Good Friday, Walking the Walk
DAY 11, Day 4 on The Camino Thank You, Jesus!!! I experienced a variety of emotions today reflecting that today in history He journeyed to his death on the cross – for me!! I could not help but think of this all day! It was another long day – 17 1/2 miles beginning at 6:45…
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Day 10 – And the sun keeps on shining!!!
Today was another necessarily rerouted day of 15 1/4 miles, and my feet challenged me at day break, after our mid walk stop and in the last half hour, but more digging deep and the support of commiserating comrades got me through. And it was a lovely walk through serene countryside. After our cafe con…
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Day 9, Oh No – BLISTERS!
Today we left Montamarta and our fun friends from Korea, China, Italy and France at 6:30 a.m. in darkness. Last night’s full moon was still high enough to light our way and we saw a beautiful sunrise. We had to remap our route based on the lack of availability of enough beds for our group…
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Day 8 (official day 1 of our Camino route)!!
This morning we all shared a small albergue supplied breakfast at 6:45 a.m. together and voiced our intentions for this journey we are all so excited to embark upon. The time was particularly a challenge as we went to a Semana Santa (Holy Week) procession last night, barely making our 10:00 curfew. Not only were…
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Last night in Zamora
Today we checked into our albergue and tomorrow we set out! Here is my bed & view: Did I mention that there are stork nests EVERYWHERE??!? (Not sure how the WiFi will be so future posts may be sporadic…)
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Day 6 – Palm Sunday
It has been very enjoyable wandering around the center of Zamora – so many ancient buildings! This was a walled city with a castle centuries ago and some of that enclosure still remains. In fact, we look at a bit of the wall outside our Airbnb. We could also see last night’s Palm Sunday Procession…