Day 23 Jeff and I are in sync - he was happy to just do 8kms today and that suits me perfectly. So we trotted along and when I slowed up stopped to shove some food into me (carry crackers, salami and cheese rations and gorgeous juicy oranges) - and then we here - plenty of time to wash and hang on the line to dry. Sun is out but air is still quite cold - like a Nelson winter's day - can hear frogs ribbetting in the pond next door. Finally realised to find the a...

Day 22 Things fair to middling - got to get the pattern right - slept 9 hrs with time on my phone in the middle of the night - yeh - found a German couple taking a taxi to Sahagun so hopped in too - yeh - then downhill from there. Sahagun a bit depressing - 2000 people but seemed deserted - empty houses, empty shops, walked around for ages until I found the heart of the town -then had the best tortilla to date - yeh (in Spain a tortilla is a potato pie bound wi...

Day 22 - actually spent night here, not location shown in previous blog for Day 22 but can't change previous blog so just recording this location to keep thing right :) This is a photo of the wonderful Fernando & Mario.

Day 21 Back in bus land - yesterday my steps got shorter and shorter then Jeff rang to say 3 German girls were sharing a taxi to the next big town - $4 ea - what bliss. Now early morning in Carrion de Los Condes - the mind boggles the history - 9 hrs sleep in a convent with a clacking stork's nest outside my window. Did you know storks clack, clackity clack? Great to see these fairy tale birds co-existing in today's world often on top of tolling church bells. ...

Day 20 Off exploring For those of you thinking of doing the Camino - step by step it's not hard - it's like walking the Otago Cycle Trail or Great Taste Trail - benched tracks, sometimes graded gravel, sometimes sealed, sometimes country roads, sometimes mud. NZ tramping is far harder step by step - even the Able Tasman strolls are more challenging - it's just the distances! Then finding food, and sleeping with 30-50 others with just the side of the bunk as your...