Perhaps it was a peregrine falcon?
The Camino del Norte is 850 km long. Whereabouts did this happen?
Birds of prey occasionally attack humans in general, they have no specific preference for pilgrims.
Yesterday we left Mouthier Haute Pierre early because it would be a long steep stage (23,5 km with 849 height meters) with some difficult parts. So we rose early, had a good breakfast, packed extra water and discovered after a few 100 meters that...
The VF del/nel Sud (other names are avaialble) goes from Rome to Bari (the embarcation point for onward travel to Jerusalem on the Via Egnatia) or on to Santa Maria di Leuca, the tip of the heel of Italy.
It is a beautiful, very quiet, extension...
With you on that but , for reasons that only reason can know, I don’t carry a 7inch dressing knife in my Camino kit. My little Opinel would get there eventually but they’re a bugger to clean when the job’s done
@Bedspring, where was this? It’s an odd time of year to be hunting Boar and very odd to waste meat.
An aside, but the majority of the people who live along the Camino routes have little interest and certainly no vested interest in the Camino...
The bit highlighted in bold intrigued me, sorry. :)
So they had their backpacks packed up and ready to be collected the night before.
That means they 'retained' with them.
Their walking gear for the next day.
Their sleeping gear.
Their...
We are in Chateauvillain. What an adventure! The VF is much different from the camino’s we did. Less pilgrims, since my last post we’ve met 1 pilgrim.
The everyday planning takes more time. Because we want to walk about 20 km a day we have to...
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