Camino De Santiago Day 25 Leon to Hospital De Orbigo Camino De Santiago day 25 walking from the city of Leon to Hospital De Orbigo. Today we walked 30km along the Santiago trail. It wasn’t the prettiest walk and most of it was beside avery busy road, with trucks whizzing past every few seconds. Not fun but worth it to get to Albergue Verde in Hospital De Orbigo. It is a beautiful Albergue with really cool people there. It is…
Day 19 Walking The Camino De Santiago – Castrojeriz to Poblacion Wow, what a day this was! The Camino De Santiago really does have a mind of it’s own and I can see it testing us with all sorts of obstacles and challenges. The weather was unbelievable today, literally the biggest shifts in weather patterns that I have ever seen in one day. The Albergue in Castrojeriz was beautiful, it felt like a yoga centre and the hospitalero was a…
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…
We are pilgrims on a pilgrimage along the Santiago Trail. We feel like pilgrims now and have found our stride. The elements have battled with us a little on some days and today was a calm sunny day which added to our enjoyment. It is not always enjoyable and pilgrimages aren’t meant to be. They are of course not a walk in the park! Then the question comes, why walk it? If it is not always enjoyable then why choose…
Today on the Camino De Santiago De Compostela we stayed put in a town called Puente La Reina. I had deep blisters and was incapable of walking any distance. And after the previous nights 10 hour walk, we were both ready for a break. Puente La Reina was a town that Paulo Coelho talks about visting in his International bestselling book, “The Pilgrimage”. Reading his book 10 years ago was my first introduction to The Camino de Santiago and I…