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Day 11 O Porrino to Cercantes 19ks
After a short lived misty start the day turned to blue skies and warm sunshine. The stage was mostly pavement with some challenging gradients. With only 80ks to Santiago there is a high volume of pilgrams with...
Day 10 Monday May 6 Valenca to O'Porrino 19ks.
No rain, heavy fog. After the rest day with leaving Portugal behind and entering Spain seemed like the start of a Camino within a Camino.
The walk out through the tunnels of Fortaleza de Valenca with...
Day 9 Sunday May 5 rest day in Valenca.
Sleep in was great. Up late morning, gathered our laundry and headed off out of the fort, where our accommodation was located, for a 15 min walk back into the ' new city' to do our washing, have lunch and...
I personally love being described as a “tourist, not a real pilgrim” for booking a hotel room and being told that I should trust “the Camino provides” a bed in an albergue. No understanding that the reason there are beds available is because many...
Thanks for this. It sounds a lot like our first Camino, but interestingly enough we've been back 8 times now. Somehow the sprained ankle, the bilateral blisters, the searing heat, the food poisoning didn't put us off and we returned home with the...
People are decent! As a member of the LGBT community and a solo traveler,I was a little worried that I might be faced with some discrimination, but no! Open hearts and open minds everywhere I went. I. Finish my journey in Porto tonight, tomorrow...
I think that the Camino does provide:
- The abililty to deal with uncertainty
- The reassurance that there are some people in the world who do believe in the golden rule
- That many times simple is best
- You don't need to eat fine and you can...
Ah, Camino. Such a rich world: thieves and con-artists; incompetents and fools; bandits and the band-of-brothers, even, sometimes, the wise… Barreling through the dust to salvation (or a nice certificate): giving and receiving as the universe...
I love that word, insouciance.
'Not your mother'. You are such a hoot. Let me say here and now, that phrase of mine, borrowed from a delightful woman called Deirdre, is the height of warm acceptance and approval from a generation already in the...
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