Camino de Stantiago walking in 2011, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 mostly September & October
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Wednesday 26 October 2011
Tale of the tape - take two
Monday 24 October 2011
You can tell it's Edinburgh
Friday 21 October 2011
Thursday 20 October 2011
Great pals
5 weeks to get here - turnaround 12 hours
Jacques the one in the middle!
Last time round it was ryanair to Liverpool and train ip this time round it's either stansted or train to Barcelona or Madrid and plane over
The attraction of barca is it's a 9pm flight so back Friday midnight - there'll be loads of taxis!! It also means a leisurely train across the countryside we have just walked
Wednesday 19 October 2011
It's a famous cross and Walid would love it
White wine - albarino -
It's a Galician speciality not well known but superb - yum yum
35 days dry and now with 38 to go
Tuesday 18 October 2011
Bathroom sealant replaces compeed
Not another thing to trip over
Pilgrims walk and every now and again we spy a taxi!!!
thank you big Sean Connor
Happy Harry says thanks for the donation to big shawnyboy!!
Fae one big Ginger to another - thank you!
Www.justgiving.com/fatal- bananas is our begging site if you want to see Harry smile again just donate!
Sent from my iPod
Cheese sandwich - Yum yum
At €2 or £1.80 it's a bit pricey but there's no doubt it's worth it - good simple ingredients taste superb! I cut it in two and this was harry's piece, but alas the big fella was too slow, yum yum
Catching up on the camino
This morning as he cut his way through the forest Harry encountered the happy couple walking well and grateful for the spanish healthcare system, it would never take off back home in Florida they mused. Dennis walked the Appalachian trail - a bit tougher than the camino and a few more bears - but the same idea. Walk a bit, drink a bit, sleep a bit then eat a bit, as jack rabbit johannsen that famous 105 smoker and drinker famously said at the Ontario health week, everything in moderation - disciples melon and gerrard still follow Jack's advice today!
Monday 17 October 2011
I thought it was Sunday they closed
61km to go and it's a rock climb
Not long now Thursday is the new Monday
Sunday 16 October 2011
Freezing fog for a fifty metre climb out of portomarin
Andre sings some classic Doors
A town called airexe
One thing about albergues is the beds are more suited to your petit peregrinos and no the six foot Ginger celt whose feet get cold of am October morning.
Talking of the cold it was Baltic at 9 and too hot at 2pm - there's no pleasing us! We were practicing the golf today - not long now until we get to have a break every 150 yards although the temperature may take getting used to the lack of midgie bites will be a joy. Clearly I haven't drunk enough today. Yet. It's Sunday and it's 6.15pm and the siesta is over!
Saturday 15 October 2011
Bridges at portomarin
Friday 14 October 2011
Cranes we love them
We didn't so much share the shower in a peregrinos kind of way - more took it in turns - in fact - I'll stop digging - 28 euro - clean - no bed bugs or mossie - and one euro a beer in the cafe!!
Alex and Gav - I got Harry into the blue room!
Thank you Ian and Clive!
Thank you loads!!
The walk from Samos to sarria
Documentary about the camino
Late night shopping in Madrid - but I thought every night was late night shopping in Spain ?
When I get back I'll check their website but to be honest every camino is unique, like a round of golf, like children in a family, like hills and the rocks that make them, like fags when I rolled them and like steps that we make on the way to Santiago - oh and every glass of tinto!