Day 34, Lavacolla to Santiago de Compostela.
Woohoo we’ve made it to Santiago de Compostela. After yet another very early start, this time to beat the crowds, we arrived at the famous cathedral at 9am. The square was quite quiet but already starting to fill with lots of people. It was a busy morning for us as we then went to The […]
Day, 33, Arzua to Lavacolla.
So, it was yet another very early start for a long day of walking. Arzua actually became quite busy with lorries as we walked down the high street. We were very happy to quickly move onto paths and gain height to see the lovely sunrise. We were also very pleased to reach our early morning […]
Day 32, Palas de Rei to Arzua.
We left lovely Palas de Rey early, and in the dark, for the long walk to Arzua. It was another really cold morning too, 2⁰C. Our walk initially took us out on roads through the small hamlet of Carballal. We then moved onto really good, tree covered woodland tracks. This has been a day of […]
Day 31, Portomarín to Palas de Rei.
It was lovely to see the mist over the reservoir as we left Portomarín this morning. Today’s walking has been a day of lots of ascents and descents mainly on good paths next to roads. There have been lots of great views and lots of people too. Even more than yesterday! Just three days to […]
Day 30, Sarria to Portomarin.
So today The Camino became really busy. Sarria has a train station and we have learned that this is where all the people walking the final 100km into Santiago arrive and join the trail. At times it has become quite congested but things soon thin out and you can find lots of space again. […]
Day 29, Triacastela to Sarria.
We set out from Triacastela on a really good path through woodlands and then soon came across amazing views. Another feature of this early part of the walk was a huge scallop shell sculpture that reflected in the pond below it. Everything feels very different now we are heading more into Galicia. There is grey […]
Day 28, O’Cebreiro to Triacastela.
O’Cebreiro was a really interesting place to stay, its streets are cobbled and it still has some of the traditional round houses known as pallozas. When we set off this morning the rain had returned and the wonderful views of yesterday had disappeared! Luckily the first part of our route took us under trees. The […]
Day 27, Villafranca del Bierzo to O’Cebreiro.
Another very early start for an 18 mile walk today. What a difference a day makes! After the sunshine and grapes of yesterday it was so cold this morning and we were walking on roads with views of a giant new motorway! Luckily the road walking wasn’t for the whole day and we headed off […]
Day 26, Ponferrada to Villafranca del Bierzo.
Following the rain and cloud cover yesterday today has been a day of sunshine, blue skies, views and vineyards. Lovely! After a long road walk out of Ponferrada we turned up a track and very soon there were vineyards as far as we could see. The Camino travels right through the small, historic Bierzo wine […]
Day 25, Rabanal del Camino to Ponferrada.
So, another early morning start for our longest walk of the journey and also the day we would reach the highest point on the whole trail. As we left the houses behind it was so quiet and so dark, but lovely and peaceful! Very quickly the rain that we were expecting started and then continued […]