#32 Emails home from the Camino Day 23 (O Cebriero to Triacastela 21 kms 5 hours) Today’s altitude map had us pretty excited with just a little upwards bump followed by the remaining 19 kms downhill. Hmmmph! We have concluded
#31 Emails home from the Camino Day 22 June 22nd ( Rest day in O’Cebreiro) With not a lot to do today, all day to do it and noting the thick mist we were encased in, we took the opportunity to sleep in. By the time we made it to the breakfast room, although our […]
#30 Emails Home from the Camino Welcome to O’Cebriero Thriving metropolis, this is not. The entire village fits on the front of the postcard I bought for my mother – and the 17 buildings that make up the village are big enough on that postcard for me to put a ring around our bedroom window. […]
#29 Emails home from the Camino Villafranca del Bierzo to Las Herrerias Varcarce 21.7 kms and to O’Cebreiro (10kms) Safe in the knowledge that we only had (or so we thought!) 18 kms to walk, we took our time setting out. The wind at times threatened to be chilly but by the time we were […]
#28 Emails home from the Camino Molinaseca to Villafranca del Bierzo 31 killer kms Gwyn can’t get her shorts done up and has developed a lump on her knee- she says it’s all fluid retention! I am agreeing because if we stop her eating
#27 Emails home from the Camino A day off in Molinaseca. With little else on our schedule, we settled down at the cafe below our room and as you would, ordered a jug of sangria. From where we sat we played ‘spot the pilgrim’. From midday on they straggled in over the ancient bridge of […]
#26 Emails home from the Camino Leon to Molinaseca by bus and taxi Again it was little short of luxury to be lulled by the rumble of sitting on a bus! Donald and I
#25 Emails home from the Camino Burgos to Leon 179kms by bus We taxied to the bus station which is where we always knew we were going to have to give up being such pure pilgrims and
#24 Emails Home from the Camino Precious or Press-on Pilgrims? There are clearly 2 sorts of pilgrims. The ‘press-on’ pilgrims and the ‘precious pilgrims’! No prizes for guessing where we might fit! The press-on variety don’t take days off, they sleep
#23 Emails Home from the Camino Atapuerca to Burgos 21.5kms We woke to clear blue skies yet again following a pretty peaceful night in our rural habitacione! Breakfast was a real treat – even less effort than our convent sisters!We felt our way about the window-less dining room