Wynette: Around our 3rd night on the Camino, we decided to stay at Hotel Akerreta, in tiny Akerreta near slightly bigger Larrasoaña. Before we left home we looked ahead for possible places to stay the first few nights and saw… Continue Reading
Wynette: In one stretch of the Camino we saw some vineyards with very rocky soil. This one was the worst. It reminded me of something my dad had told me about. He bought some farm land outside Hobbs when he… Continue Reading
Wynette: A few miles before Santo Domingo, we came to a rest area for pilgrims. Unfortunately the cement lounge chairs were already taken. (This is the only place like this we’ve come across so far.)
Charlie: Tomorrow April 22 we are starting out on what Brierly calls “the sublime Meseta” a plains region in North Central Spain. Opinions differ about it. Some people think it is boring and some people like it a lot. I… Continue Reading
Charlie: Burgos is the gastronomic capital of Spain for 2013. I’m not sure exactly what that means but I read it before coming here and it is written on a huge banner on the center of town. We went to… Continue Reading
Charlie: We walked through Cirueña yesterday and it was about the most depressing place we have passed. Kind of a poster child for the Spanish real estate bubble. It is/was a little town of 200 people but as we approached… Continue Reading
Charlie: We have been surprised at how busy we have been on this trip. On a typical trip if we spend five or six hours traveling we call that a travel day but we do that every walking day on… Continue Reading
Charlie: We took the bus 14 miles from Santo Domingo de la Calzada to Belorado and started walking from there. The path we missed was mostly along the highway although still pretty. We only got a couple of miles before… Continue Reading
Charlie: Brierly, our guru for all things Camino, has not much good to say about stage 10, from Santo Domingo de la Calzada to Belgrade, mostly a path along a busy road, so we are going to take the bus… Continue Reading
Charlie: we have been impressed at the high quality of the signs on the Camino. It seems like whenever you are wondering whether you are still on the Camino a sign shows up to tell you that you are, unless,… Continue Reading