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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

Again I couldn’t find accommodation within 15kms or so of Estella so I booked further down the road in Sansol. I took the morning bus to Los Arcos and walked a mere 7 or 8kms. I was way too early. However I was able to pass the time before the hostel opened chatting to a

I had a great 14kms hike today to Estella. Taking the bus from Puerta La Reina to the first stop down the road reduced the walking length from 21kms to 14kms. These shorter walks are like rest days. Well I needed one after the party last night. Two Scottish chaps I chatted to in a