We thought our luck had started to turn when we found a map in the town that actually had the GR-105 marked on it. We couldn't believe it, the first bit of actual information about this route. From where we were we determined the easiest way was to follow the GR-109 out of town which eventually bisected with the 105 about 5 or km from the town. This was the first morning we actually left with the feeling that we knew exactly what we were doing and where we were g...

Right from the start on the second day we had another hurdle. It was a hurdle similar to the first day. We had to re-find the route. We again got some very vague direction from the tourist info centre who didn't really seem to have a whole lot of an idea. But we felt like we were heading in the right direction anyway when we headed off. There were mountains in front of us which we knew we had to get to the other side of. When we reached the base of them we found ...

By the time Ness and I reached Santiago we were already hankering for some more walking. We kinda felt lost not doing so. We did however spend a few days in Santiago first. I still remember quite clearly when we got there. It was a grueling uphill walk to the centre of the town, just to make sure you had really earned it. The first thing we did was to head straight for the cathedral only to find out when we got there that the pilgrim centre was no longer there bu...

The last couple of weeks of my life have basically consisted of following yellow arrows and the occasional scallop shell. Day after day of waking up, having breakfast and then strapping my backpack to my back and finding the nearest yellow arrow. That's the Camino de Santiago in a nutshell anyway. 230km of yellow arrows. But there's much more to it than that of course, and I think yellow arrows will now forever hold a special place in my mind (the overwhelming ur...

We arrived in Porto just in time to head out to the only Irish bar in the city to celebrate St Paddy's day (which was basically the perfect day to end the road trip on). We got some Guinness hats for drinking pints of Guinness (apparently we were special, or maybe just early, because we got a hat per pint, but later on people needed two pints per hat). For some strange reason this pub seemed to specialise in belgian beer, so we had a pint of that too. The girls a...