Sharon and I had to delay our trip to Hadrian’s Wall and the Lake District until some unspecified future date. The combination of Hurricane Milton coming to town plus a family medical emergency (we’re managing) forced us to postpone. But we do plan to do the trip sometime. More to come…
Hi, folks. I’m getting the website ready for an upcoming trip to England. Sharon and I fly to London on Oct. 7. We’ll immediately take a train to Newcastle and spend two nights there. On Oct. 10, we set off for eight days’ hiking along Hadrian’s Wall Path. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site along a wall built in 122 AD to mark the northwestern border of the Roman Empire.
At the end, we will rent a car and drive to the Lake District for three days of touring and hiking. As usual, we’ll be posting updates on our travels. We look forward to it and hope you’ll follow along.
— Barry
We’re back home now and getting ready to start the post-walking stage of the Camino. Here is a look at some highlights of our trip, seen through one photo for each day of our journey on the Camino del Norte.
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Barry and I entered the old city of Santiago de Compostela around 9:30 on Monday morning! With clear blue skies, a strong breeze, and temperatures in the 50s, we joined other pilgrims walking into the square. People were jumping jubilantly, congratulating one another, taking photos. Throughout the day we hugged people we had walked with along the way and texted with others expecting to arrive in the next day or so. We were swept up in the presence of joy.
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We’ve shared our challenges of elevation gain, distances walked and getting lost, but we haven’t mentioned one important challenge of walking the Camino: It can be boring!
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We began our day making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on day-old baguette. Along with a couple of apples, this became a welcome lunch on a hiking day with few villages and no cafes. Our goal was to stay the night at a monastery in Sobrado that has been housing pilgrims on del Norte since the Middle Ages, Monsteiro de Santa MarÃa de Sobrado dos Monxes (in Galician).
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We left Baamonde for Miraz on Thursday morning, hiking the first several kilometers along a busy road with cars and trucks, decidedly our least favorite walking surface. But as the Camino turned off the highway, we crossed the Rio Parga using a medieval stone bridge (really) and walked into a forest and nature preserve.
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As we neared the end of our walk to Santiago de Compostela, we realized that we needed to calculate backwards from the date we fly home to know how many days of walking remained. So little time left! We came up with a plan for our remaining days on the Camino.
Continue readingIt’s Sunday night here. Tomorrow morning, we walk the final 10 kilometers to Santiago de Compostela. We have quite a few blog posts to catch up on. Unfortunately, we’ve been in rural areas the last few days, and wifi has been too spotty to let us upload the photos and videos that go with our posts. Hopefully we’ll have good connections in Santiago and Madrid and will be able to post soon.
As we have walked across Spain, two of our guidelines have been to avoid busy highways when possible and to choose the the coastline route when given the choice. On three consecutive days in the last week — our walks from Otur to Navia, Tapia de Casariega and Ribadeo — we left the traditional Camino for part of each day to walk along gorgeous coastal paths.
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Sometimes the road calls, and Sharon and Barry go. When we travel, this is where we’ll post our impressions via words, photos and videos. Thank you for joining us on our journeys.
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