Walking The Santiago Trail in winter has it’s challenges. Toady the Camino wouldn’t let us walk. It had other ideas and wanted us to take the bus into Burgos and have a rest day. The rain was coming in sideways when we left the albergue in Villafranca and we had a mountain to walk over. I made the command decision to get the bus as the the weather was just to rough to be able to walk over a mountain…
Setting off from Granon this morning on El Camino De Santiago, we walked straight into a cold head wind, which disturbed Victoria enough for her to turn around and walk back towards Granon. The wind can be very mentally tough and it takes some reframing and state management to be able to manage it. Fortunately Victoria was able to make a little shift in her perception and she turned around again and started walking into the wind again with a…
Our compostela pilgrimage continues on from Najera to Santo Domingo today. Although there were times when it was close to ending, we are now roughly a third of the way to Santiago de compostela. I believe that we are in the Rioja region of Spain now after leaving Navarre and the terrain and landscape is changing and becoming more rugged, like one would see in a cowboy movie. We are finding the weather to be getting colder and colder each…
More life lessons on the Camino De Santiago De Compostela. Walking from Pamplona to Puente La Reina, is a very interesting and memorable walk. It is a special part of the camino, although can one part be any more special than another, that is one to ponder. This leg of The Camino Frances is a prominent chapter in Paulo Coelho’s book, The Pilgrimage, and if you haven’t read it, it is worth a read. Victoria received a lesson in attachment,…