Category Archives: Daily trek

We’ve arrived at a delightful albergue, Pension Arca, staffed by Miguel who presented us with two beers and took us to our suite on the first floor 😊. It’s been an easy 24km on tarmac and forest trails. Admittedly we’ve … Continue reading →

We’ve arrived at a really lovely village after a 25.4 km trek with roughly 1,000 fellow travellers. This section of the Camino from Sarria really is about as busy as it can be. It’s also pretty boring, very little wildlife, … Continue reading →

We’ve shuffled into Palas de Rei after a somewhat tiring 25 kilometres along tarmac punctuated by short sections through mainly deciduous woodlands. Shortly after leaving the hostel we stopped for breakfast along with a dozen or more peregrinos amongst whom … Continue reading →

We’ve arrived in Portomarin after a surprisingly difficult journey. My memories of the route from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela are that it was tiring (most notably extremely painful on the soft tissues of my feet) but relatively flat. Memories … Continue reading →

It’s been a relatively short, 27km day, not terribly interesting, almost no butterflies and not many flowers in the hedgerows. We did meet a couple of interesting people, in particular a young Italian lad whom we’d met at dinner last … Continue reading →

Phew! It’s been a long day. We were lazy, Dorothy woke me at 7:30 and by the time I’d got my wits together and we’d finished a short diabetic coma inducing breakfast it was 8:30. I mentioned last night’s dinner … Continue reading →

We’re back on the Camino. We left Oxford on schedule … We walked quickly up to headington, hung around for a while … waiting for the bus which took a rather meandering route along the M25, off the M25, back … Continue reading →

It’s Sunday, the 9th of July (2023) and we’re heading back to Spain on Tuesday night to complete the Camino we started last year but failed to finish. We fly at 05:35 on Wednesday morning arriving in Santiago in time … Continue reading →

Various important points made themselves rather clear on this trip.

Hmmm. This post should have been describing a day spent making our way from Angoulême in France to San Sebastián in Spain but life has a habit of throwing curveballs when one least suspects it. Dorothy has been experiencing a … Continue reading →