- Time of past OR future Camino
- Various 2014-19
Via Monastica 2022
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Buen camino! Ultreia...and may you have cooler weather than last year.I'm on the train !!
Sleeping at the park wasn't too bad, apart from about 2AM onwards as a group of Spanish youth came to enjoy themselves there, in the typically noisy Hispanic manner.
I had BTW mspath taken note last time I was in Zaragoza of that general location near the station as a potential sleeping out place, which I always keep an eye open for, but your post was most welcome anyway in a confirmatory manner -- so thanks !!
Sunday timetables this morning though, so that both bus and train out are towards 11AM, and so I'll get a train to Burgos and then stay at the Albergue. Moratinos tomorrow.
The knees are surprisingly pain-free, regardless that I've done virtually no walking so far. And I'm already getting used to the pack weight again. Possibly I suddenly need less cerveza for pain relief than I did ? That would be weird, but good if true !! But the cerveza is still a useful helpmeet in this business of waiting for trains ...
By now you are on your way. Maybe even in Burgos. Wishing you a good indoor rest tonight and a good journey tomorrow. And pain-free knees without needing cerveza!Sunday timetables this morning though, so that both bus and train out are towards 11AM, and so I'll get a train to Burgos and then stay at the Albergue
Marie-Noëlle was great in 2005, but perfectly awful to me in 2014. Never again, and as things stand now, of the three most important Albergues here, it's the big one I like best.Seems Albergue Emaus is open. A nice alternative for Casa del Cubo.
Marie-Noëlle was great in 2005, but perfectly awful to me in 2014. Never again, and as things stand now, of the three most important Albergues here, it's the big one I like best.
Heh they even gave me the exact same bed as last time !!
Seriously?Heh they even gave me the exact same bed as last time !!
Bravo. Finally. I hope all goes very well.Anyway, here I am Ultreia ; the Sus Eia starts again tomorrow !!!
Buen camino!Day 141 - - Sahagún
I am in Leon - - Hooray!!
I am on the Frances - - Hooray !!
I am on the Madrid Way - - Hooray !!
Today has been as the whole of the Camino Frances condensed into a single day.
Strange thing is, Day 140 feels like yesterday.
I'm as slow as I was, and I need the same cervezas to get by as I have previously.
Paddy made me eggs, I drank beers on the Way, the Albergue is an old-fashioned 6€.
Many people offered me drinks. I had a menu del peregrino down priced to menu del dia level, i.e. 1€ less. It was well enough, though the tinto was rather ghastly.
I've talked with many pilgrims of this and that with various alarms and excursions.
It has been a fantastic day !!
Tomorrow, southwards.
On my Way back hopefully ...sorry to miss you, Julian. I was off swabbing floors in Asturias, alas!
Buen camino!
Long may that cotinue.It has been a fantastic day !!
This won't be backwards for me until the day I head out of Santiago homewards, as I'm still walking towards there, just by a longer route than most. So it's forward, despite being southward.Backwards on the Madrid will be nice and quiet.
Yes, but you do know what I mean.This won't be backwards for me
Interesting idea, but it's in the wrong direction.Maybe cut off at Zamora on the Zamorano?
Nowhere even close to where I'm going.JabbaPapa,
Do take care. There is a dreadful fire in the area.
All of today was overcast and cool, with some occasional sunny spells, and it rained a bit over the final couple of Ks into the pueblo.How is the weather now?
Carpe diem!
The Alcalde will arrange a place for me.JabbaPapa,
Any spot near the Plaza Mayor? What about food and beer? Hope you find a friendly local.
JP,Blimming heck - - the locals have provided not just the place to sleep in, but also the lunch, the cervezas, and some extra tinto.
This is the Camino providing big time ...
I even have a shaded porch to sit out in, by the church. Which by itself would have been a decent enough place to sleep.
JabbaPapa,Day 172 - - Bocacara
I am on the Camino Torres ; and I am on the Camino de San Francisco de Asís, as the two join up here in Bocacara.
I left late, but it was a short 8K, albeit on tarmac.
A cyclist passed me several times, going to and fro between the two pueblos, and he decided when I arrived here to look after me, giving me some fruit, getting me a beer, introducing me to a friend who offered me a light lunch of sausage and cheese at his house, then making sure the Alcalde was aware of my need.
The latter has put me up in the old school - - but rather than floor space, I have a fold-out bed ; there's toilets and a shower ; and he casually said there's drinks if I want them, and that's not just Fanta or Coke, but there's wine, spirits and ... a huge number of cans of cerveza !!!
This is so helpful, including because it's the end of the month from my perspective, and I've managed to spend only €1,30 today.
The landscape here is flat and featureless again, and is used for multiple purposes, cereal crops, sheep, horses, cattle, goats, and etc. ...
There's some hilly terrain in the next section, and the mountains are getting closer, though I still can't see those that the Torres leads to, regardless that I will be turning away before it reaches them.
I am now very far West, and the Sun is still up very late, though IIRC, Portugal has a slightly more sensible time zone.
I have been making very, very slow progress in hiking terms, both from the rest days and the zig-zagging between the two Caminos, but one cannot help but follow one's actual needs.
Though my previous detours on the Camí Catalàn and elsewhere were all a lot more direct than these ones.
I am being somewhat apprehensive about Portugal, as it will be completely new territory, but I'm sure it will all work out.
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