Friday 19 April 2024
The way outside Azorfa approaching Santo Domingo de la Calzarda. Shot taken with the help of a wonderful couple from the Netherlands. Hope and Jacqueline. The scene was another I see moment. Not the physical scene. Not a...
One morning after a few damp hours of walking (Sept 2022), the weather started to break.
This was our welcome to Torres del Rio.
Coming down the hill from Sansol and at the footbridge over Rio Linares.
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on the walk into Pamplona in April of this year 2024, I was prompted to stop. Turn around and take a photo was the prompt. It was only when after as I looked at my phone did I see. It was the first of a number of now I see moments. These led to...
Oh no, I could probably post about 100+ memorable photos, more than enough to send everyone to sleep.
But here's one of my favourites. I was walking the Camino after I lost my dog Flora. I'd gotten a tattoo of her, and every day, I'd put this...
You are the crowds ... there is no 'they over there'.
Buen Camino
p.s. start 30 minutes after the last pilgrim leaves each day and you will walk each day in peace and solitude,
Another way to make the first day easier (not jet lag related) is to book two nights in San Sebastián, take the morning bus to Irún, and walk back, therefore you haven’t got to carry your pack. That’s what I did once anyway.
If you don't have time to schedule a visit to the excavation site, just before Ages is an Atapuerca Man visitor center just 1.5km off the Camino -- you can see it from the Camino. You don't expend an extra 3km walking to and from it because...
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