Category: Camino

Day 30 – Alto do Poio

28km out from Trabadelo, almost all uphill.  This little hamlet has very limited room and board options.   My Vodafone connection is only one bar.  The wifi signal is strong. Unfortunately, the associated internet access is...

Day 29 – Trabadelo

Obtuse   əbˈtjuːs    Adjective – Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand. I’ve spent 29 days wandering along this centuries-old path, marveling at its preservation of antiquity alongside of modernity. I pay respect to the spanish...

Day 28 – Camponaraya

The last couple of days were high lighted by incredible vistas as I crossed the highest point of the Camino Frances at 4970 feet and then descended rather quickly to 1640 feet.  At times you can...

Day 27 – El Acebo de San Miguel

Many pilgrims bring significant emotional work-in-progress with them on the Camino.   The Cruz de Ferro or “Iron Cross” , a land mark prior to tonight’s stay in Alcebo, is where they come to leave it...

Day 26 – El Gonso

In 1952, the same year my wife Kathy was born,  Gerardo Fernandez and his wife D’ Luisa designed, financed and inaugurated this town’s water well. Last nights dinner was a gourmet meal prepared by our Netherlandian...

Day 25 – Villares de Orbigo

Today was an easy, dry 14km walk.  Many of the pilgrims in yesterday’s alburgue marched ahead 14 km this morning to a larger town but I had read good things about the only alburgue in this...

Day 24 – Vellar de Mazarife

Maybe the best way to represent today’s walk.  It rained from 8:30am when I stepped out of the alburgue in Peunte de Castro until about 2:00pm when I checked in at my current albergue in Villarreal...