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The Santiago Trail – Living It Up In Burgos – Day 16

The Santiago Trail – Living It Up In Burgos – Day 16

Walking The Santiago Trail in winter has it’s challenges. Toady the Camino wouldn’t let us walk. It had other ideas and wanted us to take the bus into Burgos and have a rest day. The rain was coming in sideways when we left the albergue in Villafranca and we had a mountain to walk over. I made the command decision to get the bus as the the weather was just to rough to be able to walk over a mountain…

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Camino De Santiago Walk – Winter Day 13

Camino De Santiago Walk – Winter Day 13

Walking the Camino De Santiago in the winter is a completely different matter than any other season. It can be dangerous if the correct equipment is not carried and clothing worn. As we stepped out of Santo Domingo this morning, the wind cut straight through me. It was blowing over the snow capped mountains and the conditions became arctic like. Common sense is important and I decided that we would stop in the next town and stay there until the…

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Camino De Santiago De Compostela Life Lessons Day 4

Camino De Santiago De Compostela Life Lessons Day 4

We receive many life lessons as we walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Today we walked from Zubiri to Pamplona, and it was one of the more enjoyable walks, with beautiful trails and varied scenery along the way. The people we spend our time with can have such a  huge effect on our standards and on our lives. We had planned to walk a shorter distance today, but then heard that the Koreans who were staying in the same…

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Walking The Camino De Santiago – Roncesvalles Day 2

Walking The Camino De Santiago – Roncesvalles Day 2

It was a dark rainy, wintery morning. No seriously it was pissing it down and we were about to set off on the second day of a 900km trek from St. Jean Pied De port in the French Pyrenees to Finisterre on the West coast of Northern Spain. Sounds like a cool enough adventure to do for a guy, or even a guy and his girl, but for a guy, his post natal hormonal girlfriend and their 6 month old…

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