Tunworth to Santiago

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of creating diversions in incredible ways I finished my physical journey to Santiago de Compostela last week, along with my wife and various members of my Camino family. At the risk of repeating myself, the arrival in the plaza was an incredible expreience, both emotionally moving and […]

Yesterday I arrived in Santiago de Compostela after 35 days of walking and 800km. I arrived in a group of people, most of whom I had been walking with in and off over the last two to three weeks and it was very special to share this final stage of the journey with them. Of […]

Today is the day. I arrive in Santiago later today on the 35th day of walking. It’s been approximately 800km across northern Spain and it’s about to come to an end. It’s made doubly exciting because Daphne has joined me and we will walk in together. I’m not sure what to expect today, will the […]

I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become Today I completed 31 days of walking and more importantly crossed the 100km threshold to Santiago. 700 km walked so far! I have four days of walking left but what is more exciting for me, in two days Daphne will rejoin […]

I have now arrived in the town of O Cebreiro. This town (anywhere else it would be a village) holds an amount of mystique for Camino travellers, the approach to it being built up as being very difficult. It wasn’t easy but I don’t think it was any worse than any other uphill days, and […]

Today I reached Villafranca del Bierzes, the second of two long days walking. Neither of them were longer than anything I have walked thus far, but yesterday’s journey had a number of physical and emotional challenges and today we walked in the afternoon heat. Yesterday’s stage, from Rabanal del Camino to Molinaseca, passed by the […]

Friendship refreshes the soul…. I have now walked to Astorga (550kms) passing through Mansillas las Mulas and through Leon where I spent a welcome rest day. Yesterday, I walked to Hospital de Orbigo, a 40km stage which was taxing. It was made enjoyable by being in the company of three fellow pilgrims – Bernhard, a […]

Today I walked from Sahagun to El Burgo Ranero. It isn’t a particularly long stretch but one has two choices in which route to take – (1) the Royal Camino route, and (2) along a Calzada Romana (or Roman Road). I chose the latter one which is also known as the Augustine Way. This road […]

This afternoon, I arrived at Sahagun in the province of Leon. It is considered to be the half way point of the journey. Sahagun is a historic town with ties to both the Kings of Leon and Charlemagne. I am constantly amazed to find myself walking along the footsteps of history. The route into Sahagun […]

I’m well and truly on the Meseta. Some find it endlessly dull (and it may be different in the summer when the harvest has been collected) but I find it beautiful. It isn’t entirely flat – there are undulations and some hills. The fields are planted with different crops. It is wonderful to walk through […]