We left Burgos at 5am with no time pressures as we had booked a private albergue at Hornillos de Camino, our overnight stop. As is usual in the big cities, it was a little bit tricky to find the way out as the way markers were very limited. Today’s walk was probably the easiest so […]
Archives for June 2014
Day 12 Burgos – Food
This is definitely not all food that I’ve eaten. Just food that I’ve seen and thought looked yummy.
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Camino Reflections
Over the past couple of days, I’ve been reflecting on my first 12 days on The Camino. There have been extremely difficult days, and easier days that are still difficult at times. Crossing The Pyrenees was a challenge, but a challenge that I really did love. Everything was thrown at us – heavy rain, fog, […]
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Day 11 Burgos
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Day 10 San Domingo to Belgardo
Lots of snoring in the albergue, so I decided to get an early start and headed out just before 5am. Walking behind a fellow pilgrim, we headed out of town in complete darkness. Somewhere along the way, we managed to miss a signmarker and after we had done about 5ks we realised we were lost […]
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Day 9 Najerra to San Domingo
Easiest day of walking so far. 22k and almost flat. But having said that, easier never means easy here. The roads so far seem to be mostly loose rocky trails which make walking slower and more difficult. We walked through grape growing areas again and also many plots of silvetbeet Only 1675 calories walked off […]
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Day 8 Longrono to Najerra
Day 8 Longrono to Nejarra Set off a bit earlier than usual, at 6am as there was a longer than usual walk ahead. Today’s walk was 30ks and a hot day was predicted. I had a bit of a hiccup as I ran out of water at about 12k. Unusually there were no small villages […]
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Day 7 Rest day in Longrono
Today I decided to take a rest day as Nadine isn’t feeling well. As we would be in a large city, we decided to give the albergue a miss and treat ourselves to a lovely inner city hotel with large, white fluffy towels. Such a treat! I was a bit dubious at first about having […]
