Category Archives: Daily trek

We’re in Madeira 😊. We’ve been vacillating for some time. We’d booked the flights out and back and hotel weeks ago but with concerns at home, we didn’t finally decide to go until I’d made it around the park run … Continue reading →

Dropped the Suzuki off at the airport late on Wednesday morning before the early afternoon flight to Sydney. The flight was short and uneventful. The train ride from the airport into the heart of Sydney was quick, effortless and relatively … Continue reading →

No blog for a week? It’s been interesting but not necessarily worth writing about especially when it’s unclear how one feels about the experience. We’ve moved some 70+ km up the coast from Cairns to an upmarket resort called Port … Continue reading →

We left Madrid at 22:05 on Saturday and arrived here in Trinity Beach, Cairns at a little over 13:30, Monday. Phew! Australia is a very, very long way from the UK. There were three legs, Madrid to Dubai, 7+ hours, … Continue reading →

We’ve left the Camino (sad). We took longer than usual to get going this morning. Last night’s communal dinner was surprisingly pleasant. There were four Irish pilgrims, a husband and wife and two friends. They had been joined on their … Continue reading →

We’re back at the Santa Fe albergue we we stayed last time we were passing this way. It was here that I suffered extensive bruising to my lower torso from Dorothy’s kicks under the table as she tried in vain … Continue reading →

We started late this morning; it was 7:45 or so before we were out and walking. We’d left the majority of pilgrims behind in Santa Domingo but a dozen or so could be spotted ahead and behind us as we … Continue reading →

This was Dorothy at 7:30 this morning. The sun still had a little over 20 minutes to appear but there was enough light to see where we were going and in particular to spot the renegade chicken that had managed … Continue reading →

We left not quite as early as we’d have liked, 6:43 instead of 6:30 but we hadn’t reckoned on sunrise being so late, 7:50 this morning. This meant that walking for the first 30 minutes took place in darkness Thankfully, … Continue reading →

We’ve arrived In Logroño – where it is chucking it down. Dorothy had looked on weather.com and had assured me that it would be 30 degrees of glorious sunshine, but apart from a few short hours of sunshine in Bilbao … Continue reading →