Leaningforward
Active Member
The baseball player, Yogi Berra, was quoted as saying, "when you reach a fork in the road, take it." I've reached a fork in the road on my camino, which began on February 9 in St. Jean.
After settling into a comfortable pace, I didn't leave well enough alone and lengthened my stride up a hill between Rabe and Castrojerz, and came up lame with shin splints. After taking five hours to walk from Castrojerz to Itero de la Vega, I realized I had a real problem -- especially with long winter minimum walks ahead between Fromista and Carrion de los Condes and Calzadilla de la Cueza -- and hired a taxi to transport me (oh the shame, I know) to a hotel past Fromista, where the owner is being very kind (and her mother, a very sweet octogenarian, who thinks I am too thin, taps her cane on the floor when I put down my fork and says "comer mas" -- I adore them both and my camino would be less without them.)
After resting my shins here for a few days -- and if my adopted mother has her way, putting a few pounds back on -- I am considering taking a bus on to Terradillos de los Templarios (downright sacrilege, I know), where the distances between places to stop in winter become shorter -- and my chances of walking on to Santiago will increase.
This complication -- and blessing! -- probably will leave me not enough time to walk to Finisterre as I had planned.
So would anyone with experience/some time and access to a computer help me with some information?
1. Can one easily bus from Santiago to Finisterre and back in one or two days?
2. From Santiago, what is the fastest way to get to an international airport for a flight back to the US? (I flew Icelandair to Paris.)
Thank you.
After settling into a comfortable pace, I didn't leave well enough alone and lengthened my stride up a hill between Rabe and Castrojerz, and came up lame with shin splints. After taking five hours to walk from Castrojerz to Itero de la Vega, I realized I had a real problem -- especially with long winter minimum walks ahead between Fromista and Carrion de los Condes and Calzadilla de la Cueza -- and hired a taxi to transport me (oh the shame, I know) to a hotel past Fromista, where the owner is being very kind (and her mother, a very sweet octogenarian, who thinks I am too thin, taps her cane on the floor when I put down my fork and says "comer mas" -- I adore them both and my camino would be less without them.)
After resting my shins here for a few days -- and if my adopted mother has her way, putting a few pounds back on -- I am considering taking a bus on to Terradillos de los Templarios (downright sacrilege, I know), where the distances between places to stop in winter become shorter -- and my chances of walking on to Santiago will increase.
This complication -- and blessing! -- probably will leave me not enough time to walk to Finisterre as I had planned.
So would anyone with experience/some time and access to a computer help me with some information?
1. Can one easily bus from Santiago to Finisterre and back in one or two days?
2. From Santiago, what is the fastest way to get to an international airport for a flight back to the US? (I flew Icelandair to Paris.)
Thank you.