Today we walked 8.0 miles in 5:00 hours, moving time 3:33. That’s Charlie’s moving time. He walks a little faster than Wynette and periodically stops to wait for her. The Wikiloc app is really good at detecting motion and pauses. Elevation gain of 974 feet and loss of 1411 feet (we started high)
IPA braille encodes the International Phonetic Alphabet so the braille for the same word is different in different languages, note the zones in Spanish, French and Basque. The surprised me when I saw it because I thought of braille as a language. I was also surprised that “/“ was rendered as a single dot. I
Hotel breakfasts days in a row: 3 (last one for a while)Different surfaces walked on: at least 6High temperature: 74 (It was hot, and tomorrow it will be 76)The Camino aka Saint James will provide moments: 2 (a fountain with cool water just as we were running out and a lovely cool breeze for the
GR routes (Grande Randonnée) are a network of long-distance hiking trail mostly in France, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands. Many Caminos follow GRs. GR-121 goes along Northern Spain and follows the Norte or provides alternative routes, usually closer to the ocean. Caminos go in only one direction. It is hard to go backwards because you
One of the thing we like about walking the Camino is that is changes constantly. Here are some of the surfaces we walked on today. This one is nice to walk on dry but a mess after a rain. It is the site of Charlie’s 2018 barbed wire incident. This dirt but really mostly rocky
We chose a hotel tonight right smack in the middle of the tiny town of Orio. (Yes, pronounced like the cookie, more or less.) Our hotel has a bar downstairs and there are dozens of people in the street in front talking and laughing. There’s another bar next door as well and more people socializing