Category: Spain
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Home Sweet Home
May 15, 2018 I put my Solomon hiking shoes on again Monday after a hiatus of two days – and what a glorious spectacular day in the neighborhood it was!!! My neighborhood!! The Amazingly, Breathtaking and Beautiful, Awe inspiring Pacific Northwest!! In April and the first part of May I wandered the northern countryside of…
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The Way Of Saint James
April 19, 2018 Day 14 on The Camino The Way of St. James, or El Camino de Santiago, is an ancient Catholic pilgrimage. In centuries past, folks would head out from their European homes and just start walking to Santiago de Compostela where the bones of apostle St. James are purported to be buried. Sometimes…
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Sunshine On My Shoulders Make Me Happy
April 16, 2018 Day 11 on The Camino This morning we left at 7 AM so that we could incorporate time into our schedule to stop and have a bite to eat. Me, I made a sandwich out of grocery supplies that I still had on hand… Making our way out of Lugo this morning…
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Surrounded By A Roman Wall!!
April 15, 2018 Day 10 on The Camino It was a wonderful day to start – no rain or fog! And even a bit of blue sky and sunshine! Last week we discovered that there were few open bars or grocery stores on Sunday so we wanted to be prepared this week, thus our grocery…
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Lama – Portuguese for “mud” Barro – Spanish for “mud” Mud – British for “mud”
April 14, 2018 Day 9 on The Camino We left our albergue at 7:00 a.m. It was so foggy, we ended up walking around the block(s) a couple of times until we found the way markers showing us the way out of town. The fog (and cold temperatures) continued throughout the morning. Padroń, the first town…
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A Slogging We Will Go!
April 13, 2018 Day 8 on The Camino This morning we left by 7:00 and we were fortunate to have the town lights of Grandes de Salime since none of us bothered to put on our headlamps! It became light soon enough – we saw our impending doom! We have gotten used to the mud,…
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Today Is Day Seven Of Walking!!
April 12, 2018 Day 7 on the Camino Today we headed out from Berducedo before sun up and tried to get a bite to eat in town, but no one was serving food and so we finally set out around 7:00. It was a gorgeous morning in terms of visibility and dryness and we…
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We Got Really, Really High Today!
April 11, 2018 Day 6 on The Camino This is the message I sent to my family: “Made it to Berdeucedo – pretty tough day! We had rain, many HUGE hills, as well as horrendous downhills, snow, and well, it was just a tough day! We fricken climbed a mountain!!! No Internet at our albergue,…
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Brrrrrr
April 10, 2018 Day 5 on The Camino Last year when I was on the Camino we left every morning before sun up between 6 and 6:30. This time around, not so much. Today we left at 8 AM. It’s kind of nice to be able to see where you’re going-especially when it’s foggy and/or…
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Climb Every Mountain, Ford Every Stream…
April 9, 2018 Day 4 on The Camino Last night we stayed in the town of Tineo. Founded by Rome, Tineo, experienced its peak in the late medieval period, during which a castle, Franciscan monastery, and pilgrim hospital were all built, none of which survives. King Alfonso IX made Tineo a compulsory pilgrim stop in…