Day 24, Astorga to Rabanal del Camino.
Astorga has definitely been one of our favourite places to stay. It is a really relaxed and interesting town with beautiful buildings including the cathedral and stunning Palace of Gaudi. It was such a contrast to very quickly come across a tiny roadside church as we headed out to the mountains for our days walking. […]
Day 23, Villar de Mazarife to Astorga.
It was extremely quiet when we set out at 6am this morning. This is always a lovely time to walk with few people about, but this morning it was just us heading off through the village and then across the wide open farmland. The land we crossed is extremely rich with a very wide variety […]
Day 22, Leon to Villar de Mazarife.
Our route out of Leon took us past every aspect of city life from industry to a very impressive looking luxury hotel! On leaving the city we had a choice of two routes. We took the very quiet path across the paramo which translates to wilderness land. It certainly was barren wasteland with not much […]
Day 21, Mansilla de las Mulas to Leon.
We knew today was going to be a day of contrast, moving from quiet countryside to city life. We were right! Crossing the River Esla this morning was so peaceful with lovely blue sky and more poplar trees. Our route was, once again, along the side of roads, this time quite busy with cars heading […]
Day 20, El Burgo Ranero to Mansilla de las Mulas.
We set off from the small hamlet of El Burgo Ranero for another day of walking on paths at the side of a road. It has been a perfect day for walking with blue sky but lots of cloud cover too. We’re very happy to continue following flat paths at the moment too, we know […]
Day 19, Sahagun to El Burgo Ranero.
We left historic Sahagun and walked over the stone bridge to join our path for the day. Today has been a day of walking on footpaths next to both large and small roads. On any long distance route there will be days like this and we were happy that this was flat and took us […]
Day 18, Calzadilla de la Cueza to Sahagun.
We were treated to another beautiful sky as we left Calzadilla this morning. Our route took us through more farmland where we saw some extremely well preserved circular barns. Shortly after this feature came the real highlight of the day, Terradillos de Los Templarios. This is famous as it was a major stronghold of The […]
Day 17, Carrion de los Condes to Calzadilla de la Cueza.
So, this has been the flattest walk so far and we made really good time along the lovely wide path. We’re still at a height of 2,800ft and still on a wide open plateau with views for miles and miles. It’s also still all about farmland, today it was entirely huge fields with a wide […]
Day 16, Fromista to Carrion de los Condes.
Today has been our first entire day of walking beside a road. However, the route was flat, the road very quiet, there was a great path and there were many beautiful views. The whole distance passed through swathes of farmland, all being continually maintained by tractors, irrigation and the rotavator we spotted. Many of the […]
Day 15, Castrojeriz to Fromista.
We set out very early this morning to avoid, as much as possible, walking in the heatwave that is currently in the area. The temperature reached 30c this afternoon. As always, with early morning walks it was quiet, cool and peaceful. Amazing views too. The day began with an extremely steep climb out of Castrojeriz […]