A pleasant day out of Lugo. Chilly in the morning wind but easy walking. The hills of Galicia are low rolling and green. Maples and oaks are beyond buds which makes the forested hillsides patchworks of greens. I walked much of the way with Sophie from Chinon, France. She has put together her Camino to […]
No post yesterday from O Cádavo. A long uphill near the end took us to a ridge that dumped us down into basically a ghost town with a relatively new municipal albergue. No internet, little food, and early to bed. Today was a longish 30+km day to Lugo. Mostly flat on nicely graveled roads in […]
Late start, relaxed walk. Frederikka was once again attracted by the views, our last of the mountains and hills of Asturias. She says she was not comparing these to earlier views; she was just adding them all together, expanding her collection. She fell well behind Ramón and me, and I was often way behind Ramón […]
Learning a new way to walk thanks to my walking partners, Frederikka and Ramón. They start late, especially when the day is only 20 km. And they take long breaks to eat and look and enjoy. Liza and I would have been in Grandas de Salime 3 hours earlier; it was just our style together. […]
We (Frederikka, a Dane, and Ramon, Spanish architect living in London) started our climb into the mountains in just the weather guidebooks warn against, hill fog. But everyone assured us it would be fine. And we were following the one agreed-upon stipulation: don’t go up there alone. We walked up into the fog and then […]
Vistas! Vistas! A flat walk out of Bodenaya to Tineo, then a training hill, from the perspective of the next few days, from there. Towns and valleys from above, then up and over the big hill to see more valleys and vistas, on the other side, below. Into Campiello around 3 pm. This village is […]
Again posting early afternoon in anticipation of being in a gushingly reviewed albergue that is probably without wi-fi. Started the day with a steep uphill in a heavy rain and anticipating a climb of 400m over the next 7 km into Bodenaya. The valleys, which we get to see from above, are beautiful. Update: Oh […]
Writing from Grado, 4 km before the days’ s destination, San Juan de Villapañada, which is uphill from here. They have no food and, I suspect, no wi-fi, so i will post here. The Cathedral at Oviedo is a big-time stop in the cult of relics circuit. They have the cloth covering Christ’s face in […]
A casual stroll from Pola de Siero to Oviedo. Started in light rain, ended in 70º F warmth. Tomorrow the Primitivo begins.
At the point where the Primitivo splits from the Norte, I briefly remembered last night’s talk with a French woman who has walked many different routes over the past 10 years. She thought I could and should do it. So I became part of the 25% turning left. And then I went up and then […]