Saturday 26 May Santiago de Compostela. I’m at the end of my journey across Spain after taking a 4 hour train ride yesterday from Astorga. At one stage I thought I was on the wrong train after it sat in a station for ages and then started going back the way it had come. What a panic but a very nice lady spoke some English enough to say it was okay. It’s a worry when you don’t understand announcements. I got a taxi to this pension which is the sort where th...

We arrived in the beautiful city of León yesterday afternoon after an eventful afternoon where we had to follow a diversion to avoid a long unsafe walkway over the top of the motorway leading into the city. It led us up hill and down dale and we saw neither hide nor hair of any other pilgrims and began to think we were going the wrong way but eventually came to the Camino again and Raewyn led us straight to our apartment where we have two nights. We have a washi...

17May today and day 23 of our walk and the weather is still holding out, beautiful blue skies again. Forecast is for rain tonight. Great walking today, mostly beside quiet roads and though it was quite flat the colours we vivid greens and yellow soil and lots of different trees. We had lots of laughs making up stories about the people we meet all quite harmless. The numbers of pilgrims seemed to be less today although we’re not staying in an Albergue tonight, ...

Hola after a couple of days of missing doing my blog I’m writing from Calzadia la Lequeza a small town just 17 kms from Carrion where we stayed last night. Raewyn is doing a brilliant job at finding us gems of accommodation because the Camino is quite busy nearly a thousand pilgrims arrived in Santiago de Compostela yesterday according to our Aussie mate who we catch up with now and again. There is a website that tries to count but it can’t be accurate when p...

What a great day getting to our destination of Castrogeriz, a small town two days out of Burgen. We walked 20 kms through gently rolling country with lots of picturesque views of ruined churches and other buildings we just couldn’t recognise. Most of the buildings are either falling down or show signs of centuries of carefull repair work as is the case with our Albergue (hostel) where we’re staying the night. Ancient timber beams holding up the ceiling and pl...