After the cleaning chores were done this morning, Rowan and I caught the bus to Oviedo, the provincial capital 25km away. In true Spanish fashion though the scheduled bus did not arrive. Rather than stress out, we popped into a local cafe & bought the most scrumptious french toast with ham & cheese filling. This…
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Camino Hospitalero’s
Wed, Aug 16th, 2016 3rd day as Hospitalero’s in Grado, a small country village in Northern Spain. Its 10pm. Lights go out at 10pm, and peace descends in the albergue. Or usually does. Tonight the washing machine is on, there’s a sick man sleeping in the dining room, pilgrims are restless looking for their forgotten…
Hospitalero for a week
Albergue Villa de Grado We’re now one week through our 2 week stint of being Hospitalero’s (volunteers) at the newly established munipal albergue (pilgrim hostel) in Grado. We are on the Camino Primitivo route, it takes about 14 days to reach Santiago from here. Quite doable if you have a short holiday break. Its very…
Day 5 of Camino del Norte
Walking the northern coast of Spain Temperature today was 26 but felt more like 22. Sun is mild compared to Australia, feels good on the skin, especially coming from a Blackheath winter. Legs felt stiff this morning, the calves in particular felt the 90kms walked so far. No blisters, we are doing well. The town…
Waiting for the train
Camino del Norte, Day 0. Madrid to Santander (by train) Santander is a popular summer holiday destination on the north coast of Spain. It is also a major city on the Camino de Norte route, and seemed a good place to start our Camino journey from. Our train journey started with a bit of adventure – or…
Madrid
Our recovery time. We are at the Madfor hotel on the western side of Madrid. It is hot and dry, but daylight til 9.30. Seems a pretty relaxed city. Maybe because it summer holiday time. Had a good walk around and soaked up the character of the city with all its great buildings and restaurants….
Leaving – on a jet plane
Actually, Bike, Train, Train then Plane(s). Blackheath – Sydney – Dubai – Madrid. BHN, SYD, DXB, MAD.