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 […]

23 October A Fonsagrada to Castroverde

“Where’s the boy? Have you lost him? Did you count one, two, three, four oh that’s enough!” It was the Canary Islands family quizzing us outside a bar – a bar, which incidentally, we all remembered stopping at last time….and all of us thought it was very early on in the day – turned out […]

22 October Castro to A Fonsagrada

Rob writes…. Loving the beginning of every day, the quiet of the morning, walking into the sunrise, watching the increasing light, the way it plays… and the anticipation of what lies ahead. You’re well fed and well rested and it’s a great time of the day. Rob mused that after an hour of quiet walking […]

21 October La Mesa to Castro

How can it be that every day is perfect? The sun doesn’t rise until 8:45 at the moment and so a leisurely start is enforced on us every morning as we prefer not to walk in the dark. We set out at dawn and get to witness the sun rising most mornings. Today was no […]

20 October Samblismo to La Mesa

An utterly stunning day. From the gentle sunrise to the howling wind across the col to the warm sunny afternoon. Absolutely spectacular and any other superlative you can think of! It’s the kind of day that really cannot be described in words and even photos fall short of capturing all it was. It had to […]

19 October Tineo to Samblismo

“You should go to Samblismo,” Celia, the hospitalera two nights ago had told us. “Javi only has six beds, so you’d better make a reservation because you are five.” So we did. And actually it has worked very well because it made this short day a little longer than it otherwise would have been and […]