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Today I went to buy some fruit for emergency rations as I hope to spend the next few days right on the path doing around 12kms per day. Mapy gave me directions to a supermarket about half a kilometre away. It gave me a chance to walk around a bit and discover a little more […]

Today is my last full day in Burgos. It’s a beautiful city. Where Barcelona has charming narrow streets, Burgos has gorgeous wide open spaces. I strolled through elegant plazas and tree lined promenades, the cathedral dominating it all. It will be hard to leave. My backpack should arrive today and I will be grateful for

Today is looking like a much better day. In spite of missing the 7:15am bus from the campground- I apparently wasn’t standing at the bus stop. Then again it was difficult to ask anyone where it was in the pitch black with no one around. After the sun came up I asked a lovely gentleman

Today was a strange day. It started out with a lovely misty morning walk to Villafranca Montes de Oca about 5kms along the trail. Because of the complications of booking accommodation, I had to take a place about 8kms off the path. The place was Monasterio de Rodilla, which I thought was an old Monastery,

This is a very small town on the road to Burgos. I was hoping to walk further than 8kms today but I couldn’t get accommodation anywhere within 15kms of where l was staying last night. I’ve sliced up the route by walking 8kms to here. Another 5kms tomorrow will get me to a town where

Today was another sunny day. It was a bit too warm but I managed 13kms to Granon. I was hoping to take a bus to Belorado which was another 15kms away and the only available bed. There were no buses on Sunday. I had to take a taxi. The owner of the restaurant I had

When my phone finally updated yesterday, it said I had walked 18kms. Camino Ninja posted the route as 19kms. It doesn’t matter. It was a lovely walk. Today I walked mainly through vineyards. It wasn’t as busy as a few days ago so I walked a good deal of the time alone. I had breakfast,

Some “stuff” gets missed in the daily turnover of getting to hostels, booking in, doing laundry, eating and posting. So here is what I don’t want missed. I will remember forever a delicious bowl of Gazpacho in Lorca, spoiled only by a Canadian from Edmonton who wondered if I might be too hot in my

I made it to La Ventosa today. Camino Ninja said it would be 19kms. My phone said it was 16kms, my phone has lied before, and my body said that you could maybe have done another 5kms. The path was flat. It was an easy slog. (I mastered in oxymorons, with minor in morons). All

Today was an almost too easy walk from Viana to Logrono. Rachel and I took a taxi to Viana again to shorten the walk from 20 to 12kms. It was a beautiful sunny day, not too hot and a fairly easy flat walk. The only mishap was a stumble on a small stone while both