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…
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…
The Santiago Trail has been offering us many synchronistic events to assist us on our camino. Today we walked from Viana, through the city of Logrono and on to Navarette. A long day of walking especially when we had to walk all the way through a city, which can be energetically draining. I made the most of being in the city and bought some new footware, a pair of North Face gortex hiking shoes with Vibram soles. Now I mean’t…
Walking The Santiago Trail gets better and better each and every day. Well that’s a good affirmation to say while walking anyway! Today we walked from Los Arcos to Viana and it was a beautiful trek. We felt really strong today and my blisters on my feet are becoming more manageable, even though I have a few more small ones around my toes from my feet sweating in my cheap boots. In saying that my cheap boots still win over…