Day: April 24, 2024
Santillana del Mar … and breakfast
I think we posted a photo very much like the above in 2018. We stayed in Santillana del Mar on that Camino walk but went a few miles past it today. It’s a beautifully-preserved very old town. Quite lovely. It doesn’t feel like a “real” town. It’s essentially a museum with quite a number of
Old-timey playground equipment
We were on a walk yesterday and came upon this little playground. I remember teeter-totters but not one made of a log. And, of course, the universal playground sign in the US has a teeter-totter on it even though no US playground has had a teeter-totter in many years. Far too dangerous for our delicate
Welcome to California
We have a couple of apps that help us follow the Camino but when we get within a mile or so of our hotel we switch to good old Google maps directions. This is the road we were on: I was getting spoken directions and it said “continue on California 340”. We did some searching
Look! A cow!
I use the photo identification app built into my phone. Usually it works fine, although not as well as Google Lens. For example, I took this photo yesterday: and it said “Asian knotweed”. Great. Then we saw this cow with unusual markings that we had never seen before and we wondered what breed it might
4/24 WynChar Diary
No short items today. We walked 7.5 miles, up 950 feet and down 830 feet, actual altitude ranged from 46 to 466. In an early blog, 2013, I noted that the pleasant phrase “rolling hills” is actually not that much fun to walk. Some were quite steep. But today was a very nice walk. The