Wynette: We are seeing more flowers. The poppies and lilacs and redbud and fruit trees are blooming. Today I think I saw a stork flying. Haven’t yet seen one up close. We hear lots of birds singing. Today passed a… Continue Reading
Wynette: Night before last we stayed in Navarrete. This was the pretty view from our hostal window. We went inside that church earlier in the day. It was spectacular. I’m amazed what large, beautiful churches these tiny towns have. Of… Continue Reading
Wynette: In books we read by people who have walked the Camino, occasionally they would mention that they started out in the morning before the coffee places opened so they had to walk to the next town before having any… Continue Reading
Charlie: Or whatever the plural is. We have been starting early so we are walking with groups of other pilgrims. There are seven in the distance. Notice the long shadows.
Charlie: We started at 780 so we passed 200 km today. We were talking to a pilgrim from Canada who said she liked km because they were shorter. This is at about 7:15 this morning.
There are services to transfer packs and tired pilgrims. The taxi ad below was slapped onto one of the camino markers a few miles before the next town at a point one might be tempted to call. Another taxi opportunity… Continue Reading
Wynette: About half of our walk today was through a park-like recreation area outside Logroño. Several miles. We saw the above sign there. We were interpreting what they meant by the cute little pictures without looking at the text. Charlie… Continue Reading
Charlie: We sent home a box of things we weren’t using yesterday. This included our rain pants, never used, the shoes that Wynette bought that didn’t work out, and lots of cold weather gear since the weather has turned warmer.… Continue Reading
Charlie: It seems my GPS runs a little fast. When we do the same track with my phone and Wynette’s, mine is 5 or 10 percent high. We tested it on the car a while ago and got the same… Continue Reading
Charlie: We stayed in Logroño for two days and had a fine time there, a very nice city. We sent home five pounds of things we didn’t need including both of our rain pants. We rearranged the packs so Wynette… Continue Reading