24.4k You might notice that there is no post for the section from Betanzos to Hospital de Bruma. As we need to arrive in Santiago tomorrow, we skipped a stage via cab. It was a section with an elevation gain of 673 meters and a length of 25k.  So we started with a morning that…

16.8k   That delicious chocolate con churro, that we usually split, but this time had one each because it was so reasonable, kept us up with the caffeine content. What price glory? Lesson learned – order chocolate con churro in the morning. Hey familia, I will be bringing home the special chocolate so we can…

14.7k   Ugh I made a planning blunder. We had planned to stop in a town earlier on the track yesterday, but ended up continuing. Then today planned on going the short distance to the next town and doing the steep climb out it, before our next stop. The only place to stay at the…

Recovering from our pre-breakfast experience, we were on our way. Next up: mushrooms (non-edible), a church, cows and a donkey. Random, eh?       Then a long bit through a beautiful city park.   We climbed up a steep hill to an area of large houses with manicured lawns, interspersed with empty lots with an…

Day 19: Camino de Santiago - Camino Inglés – Ferrol to Fene (Part 1)   22.65k including getting to our pension, 1k off track, and getting to and from dinner plus lost time.   We left before sunrise, searching for the first arrow. That sounds dramatic, but sunrise in Spain is at 8:30. Chuck spots it.…

Today was a day of esperando. That is the Spanish word for waiting. Coincidentally it is also the word for hoping. How civilized that is, using your waiting time for hoping.    It was a better day for esperando than walking as, it was raining.   We booked a room close to the train station…

18.1 K   We were the last to leave at 9:00am, noticing that nobody had taken advantage of 9e brekkie. The Irish group told us they were first quoted 16e! Instead we stopped at the adjacent Repsol gas station/mini mart and bought a two pack of Danone rice pudding.   Our strategy of leaving late…

  23.2k   Our elegant accommodation at Os Miguelinos came with a fitting breakfast.   We took our time, starting our walk at 10:00 a.m., the same time as a community 10k walk with at least 150 participants.  It was ironic as we chose this route for a less populated Camino, but admirable to see…

  24.1+3.25 for morning hiccups 27.35k (no wonder my feet hurt)   Such a nice evening last night at Hotel Restaurante Luz Da Luna, located on a strip of beach hotels and camp grounds that bustle in season. For now it was totally quiet. We may have been the only ones in the hotel and…

22.3k   Apologies for the delay, reception has been challenging, and the formatting has been affected.    Guest blog post by Chuck: We spent the night in the peace and comfort of the Mosterio on a mountainside as Li has described. We knew that by the evening we should be seaside so pretty good chance…