31 October 2025
What a day! But first, the usual. Very quiet here today (although it is only 4 o'clock), just two peregrinas from Taiwan and my replacement, Valentín.
I got up at my usual 6:00 and, wonder of all wonders, all 8 pilgrims were...
Peter, do you follow Dave Whitson? He's walked many Camino's, is the author of several Cicerone guidebooks, has a wonderful podcast, and has JUST completed the American Discovery Trail! Here's his website, it's definitely worth a look...
Earlier this month, I began walking from Ponferrada to Santiago with two friends. Although I had walked two previous Caminos, this was the first for both of my friends.
This Camino was full of the Unexpected. The first few days were easy...
Camino Frances
towards O Cebreiro
near La Laguna
November 30, 2012 on the biking path!
Shaggy with snow these huge pines resembled fairy tale phantoms .
This is my Primitivo tree, I took this photo the first time I walked the route in 2015. Turned it into a gigantic poster that I had hanging on my living room wall, and I looked at it every morning as I drank my coffee. I was back on the Primitivo...
Hello from Salamanca!
I'm posting this from the pilgrim albergue in Salamanca. I'm posting it in the VDLP forum because that is the route that the vast majority of our pilgrims are walking, even though Salamanca is on a few routes (including the...
I absolutely loved the Fisherman's Trail, but I echo the words of those who have said that walking in deep sand was difficult. Walking in it for three days straight had me wondering what I had gotten myself into. Poles were suggested, but after...
Echoing what others have said; the stages are, indeed, fairly fixed, so there's not so much wiggle room in sticking to 16km or less. But @jungleboy 's outline above follows the stages that I did (in Spring 2023) and it's a great suggestion. These...
Here I am in Figueres, on the Camino de Girona, after finally deciding on this year’s Camino after lots of issues with plans falling apart for other Caminos. I’ll be continuing on in Montserrat on the Zaragoza variant of the Camino, saving the...
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