30 October Santiago de Compostela

Yesterday’s blog post has been updated to reflect one more tradition which we forgot to mention. The first person to spot the addition and write it in the comments gets a bag of Spanish olives (so long as they are able to pick them up from our house!!) Today was the Last (full) Day. Last […]

29 October Santiago de Compostela

Family traditions in Santiago…. cathedral – churros – cheese to take home – compostelas – Casa Manolo (the kids objected to changing this tradition)(the rain on the way to dinner is not exactly a tradition) The Day’s Statistics Distance: 20ish km (less if you’re a kid and stayed home while the parents ran errands!) Temperature: […]

28 October Salceda to Santiago

Our original plan was to walk into Santiago tomorrow and then we had one more day spare for emergencies. But we made it today. This last stretch feels very familiar now. [sidebar note: the first time we walked I snapped a lovely picture of the youngest son walking hand in hand with his daddy past […]

27 October Sobrado to Salceda

Setting out this morning we knew there were about 60km to go, but we had not yet decided if we would do it in two days or take a leisurely three. By the time we were at 30km the kids were asking to go ALL the way TODAY. Everyone was feeling really good. Packs were […]

26 October Friol to Sobrado

Destination: Monastery at Sobrado and nothing much happened on the way. Lots of fog (see pics from previous days), lots of forest (see pics from previous days), lots of farm trails (see pics….) and a few loose dogs (no pics available sorry – we walked straight on by and left them alone….Micaiah, who was carefully […]

25 October Lugo to Friol

What do Winnie the Pooh, Mr Tumnis, Henny Penny, the troll who went for the Billy Goats and the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood have in common? The obvious answer is that they are all characters from children’s literature. What you might not know is we walked with them all today. When we crossed […]

24 October Castroverde to Lugo

That albergue last night was one of the “lights turn off at 10pm automatically” ones. And they turned on again at 7am. That gave everyone an hour to get ready and be out by the kick-out time, which happened to be almost an hour before sunrise.(philosophical thought of the morning: light shines most brightly in […]