Camino Catalan. Fourteenth stage. La Panadella - Cervera - Tàrrega.
Cervera Town Hall, baroque building.
Behind the bell tower wedged between the church and the town hall. In this bell tower the bells are still rung manually.
It is like a crash site. You drive passed and you know that you must not look or react in any way or form but you do ...
Folks, he is talking about how to get over the metal pedestrian bridge just before Astorga. Known to Camino pilgrims as the...
Last time I had a non-rubber stamp sello was at the lovely Albergue Betania at Frómista in late November 2022, as they use a beautiful printed adhesive stamp instead.
Otherwise I have had personalised stamps in Monaco, France, Spain, Portugal...
That's a very good point!
A lot of it is also that other bicycle tourists just have a mental reference for the answers--if you're on a bicycle loaded with camping gear every day for weeks on end, a fifty mile day is short, for instance; and if...
I have walked that final section 3 times but not since 2018.
So places may have changed.
But if I was to walk it again I would only stay in intermediate 'smaller' places and probably leave later in the day, say 9am. But I'm not sure even that...
At some point in the 4km of A Rúa's really dreary sprawl, the km markers counting down to Santiago drop under 200.
The promised rain once again failed to materialise while I was walking, but the clouds stayed low and thick for most of the day...
I would love to do another camino involving Christmas (I was walking back from SdC over Christmas, 1998). I was worried about what might be open, so asked if I could stay two nights at Mansilla de las Mulas. Stocked the fridge in case of other...
Thursday 21 November, Campo do Gerês to Lobios.
Today wasn't an extra short day, nor an extra long one. At just over 25.5 km, it took just over 7 hours duration (about 6.5 hours walking). Add an extra hour to the finish time because I am back...
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