Whilst I disappear in April for 3 weeks the plans for the 500 miles in October are taking shape.
Flights to Bilbao at the end of September or early October are being checked and the game is on!
We plan to do a mixture of walking and buses amongst us.
Jimmy's new knee means he'll be on more buses than us and he'll carry the kerry oot!!
Not all our places will have Larios Gin and we will leave a few bottles along the way as we donate to the local community and offer tempting tastes to the pilgrims who follow us.
We will bus down to Puenta La Reina from Bilbao.
Then we walk and bus.
Camino de Stantiago walking in 2011, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 mostly September & October
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Friday 29 March 2019
Wednesday 27 March 2019
Camino plans III
Yes it wont be long until camino plans IV but in the meantime we have a new plan, owing to some vague long distance snow warning in the Pyrenees, like that would slow us up!
Well it might offer us the chance to have an extra day to get to St Jean!
So the question becomes Biarritz/Bayone for thursday or .....
Who knows but its an ever evolving plan and Burgos on the 12th is guaranteed now!
Well it might offer us the chance to have an extra day to get to St Jean!
So the question becomes Biarritz/Bayone for thursday or .....
Who knows but its an ever evolving plan and Burgos on the 12th is guaranteed now!
Thursday 21 March 2019
Short cuts to the 2015 walk
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- ▼ September (84)
- Small man big ice cream
- 20 metres of the camino
- I rolled a 3 from santo Domingo
- Snakes and ladders camino
- Logrono with serenade from accordion player playin...
- Calle mayor in logrono
- The 10 metre altar piece
- Close up of altar
- Which came first the chicken or the egg?
- Alas poor yorick a man of santo Domingo
- Jackie tries photo bombing in santo Domingo
- The next week
- View from the window of the camino in santo Doming...
- Fat Al left on his own - again
- Top tips for pilgrims after Burgos
- Jay Campbell remembers big Rog
- El cid in Burgos frozen in time
- Burgos south gate
- Not my best!!
- Holly and Helen
- Jay from buffalo met roger !!!
- My hat has gone and Paul's heart!
- Don't stay in redecilla Delhi camino
- Www.fatal.bananas.blogspot.pot
- Don't do this to me
- Fat Gary sings Zoom
- Even when it's busy
- Harry presents his colours
- Paul and fat Al watch fat Gary & the band
- The crowd thins out at 5pm for siesta time to get ...
- Los arcos on Saturday night before logrono Sunday
- Banana and Paul with a minion
- We always finish at paganos on calle laurel
- I was a bad custodian
- I remember this
- It's never too late to ....
- Drinking on your own is a sad boys game
- A long long road to azofra
- On the road to azofra
- Paul's rucsac too small...
- Cuban rice in azofra
- Plates of food - he's a faster eater
- Paul's new favourite wine
- Villafranca Montes de Oca
- Cardenuela riopico
- You can leave your hat on
- Alubias in azofra
- Cuban rice in aZofra
- Calle San Augustin
- Logrono changes everything
- View from above!
- Logrono wine festival - calle portales
- First he put his tea bag in the ashtray
- Stunning
- And then there were only 97 stragglers
- Montjardin in the distance
- Sheep as far as the eye can see - mmmmint sauce
- Church in Spain - details to follow
- Map of the world outside citation
- Small man big forest
- San Sebastián- Irun - hendaye - Bayonne - St Jean
- Albergue tip Muruzabal
- Bags of fun
- Stu at alto del perdon
- 2-timers!!
- Rain rain everywhere except on us
- Small men big wall - let us in or we'll batter ye!...
- And now there are 4
- San Sebastián- Irun - hendaye - Bayonne - St Jean
- Phone or fag
- Camino 2015 - St Jean pied du Porte
- Fellow pellegrino
- Paul takes a breath of fresh air
- Living on the clouds
- Still climbing to the cop de Leopold
- View west at col de Leopold- climb 1280m part 1
- Free wifi at col de Leopold
- Why fatal-bananas Fat Al!
- Dinner at Roncesvalles
- Leaving burguette @8.30
- I'm hatless - left on the plane!
- Paul's chasing horses while stu looks on
- Stu descends to zubiri
- Zubiri albergue
- ▼ September (84)
Monday 4 March 2019
Santander April 3 - Pamplona April 4th - or will it be St Gien!!
It wouldn't be a camino if we didnt write a plan down and then change it (see below) - caminos are fluid and should always be reflective and reactive - this camino started with me going then me and Stu and now Andy & Keith joining too - October will be similar I'm sure.
The greatest place to amend plans is as you make them and as in life, while you're executing them. There's always another way whether its better or not is merely a reflection of your mind and so to my St Patrick's Day reflections.
Between March 17-20th the plan evolved and now I think we get to San Sebastien and find out what the weather's doing. If its good we cross into France on the wee train and head for St Gien pied du Porte. My body needs a good pounding and its never got tougher for me than the Pyrenees. You meet so many people on the first day that you bump into later and the laughter builds up over the camino as you reflect on the bags people carried over the Pyrenees and not just the packs on their backs.
By Logrono their load is lighter and by Burgos their smiles beam brighter.
So back to the plan - Stu and I want to catch some of the Masters on TV, which means we should aim to be in Azofra at some stage as it means we can walk past the golf course at Ciruena. Ideally then the boys should arrive on Friday to Logrono where after a light lunch we can make our way along the camino to Navarette a small place holding centre stage on the hill above the vineyards. From Navarette we can walk easily to Azofra in about 6 hours, although we will stop for lunch Ventosa before sliding down to Najera and the cement works. Then we walk along the road to Azofra.
Of course the plan is fluid so it could be the boys get the bus to Najera and we've only time for the wee walk to Azofra - but it'll still work!
Leaving Azofra we will walk to Ciruena and then Santo Domingo des las Calzaas for some lunch. Then we'll take the 2pm bus and get off in Belorado and walk to Tosantos, Villambistia or Montes de Oca. The ideal solution is to walk a big day to Cardenuela del rio pico but I might save that for myself on Monday morning and get a bus back after having sunday lunch in Burgos.
The best time for sunday lunch is 12-3pm - listen to the church bells and head for some tapas. So we will walk in if possible along the river - or be on board the bus that leaves Montes de Oca around 11.
The bus from Burgos to Santander is fairly regular so a bus on a sunday around 2:30 should get up for 6pm allowing an evening drink before heading out on the 12 minute bus to the airport which leaves outside the bus station every 30 mins.
Small airport bliss - its very camino'esque
I'm doing the timetable for April after arriving 22:00 on Wednesday 3rd April
Stu is walking until Sunday April 14 whilst Andy & Keith will arrive Friday 12th in Burgos.
We will either bus to Belorado and walk to Tosantos/Villambistia/Montes de Oca/Cardenuela then Burgos - Stu can get bus South while Keith & Andy get bus to Santander
or
Do Burgos to Fromista. Stu can get train South while Keith & Andy get train to Santander
I'll then carry on up towards O'Cebreiro
Stu & I get Late bus to San Sebastien?
Thursday April 4 - Pamplona
April 5 Uterga
April 6 - Lorca
April 7 - Villamayor Mont Jardin
April 8 - Torres Del Rio
April 9 - Logrono
April 10th - Azofra
April 11 - Tosantos
Friday April 12 - Cardenuela Rio Pico
April 13 - Burgos
April 14 - Hornillos
April 15 - Castrojeriz or town just after
April 16 - carrion Hotel Zo?
April 17 Templarios
April 18 Sarria short day or Religeous
April 19 Religeuos
April 20 Leon
April 21
April 22 O'Cebrerio
April 23rd bus to Santander
April 24th flyout of Santander - 22.20
The picture below are from our trip on the sevilla route and the ones below them are belorado to Burgos on the Camino frances
A Small theatre in Salamanca
I've said for years that the best places to stay are usually found in the towns you're least likely to stop at, on the Camino Frances.
I say this because the extra albergues and hostals that open tend to be full of friendly hopitaleros like the one below at Cardenuela rio pico just before orbaneja and after Atapuerca.
My route now takes me from Villambista there. Sometimes I'll stay in belorado but I do reckon the journey past montes des Oca and St Juan are worth it. Ages after St Juan is great too and my pity is you have so many great places to stay in such a short stretch. If you can push on past Belorado. Its always natural after a long dusty walk to Belorado that you want to stop but trust me its worth the extra hour to Tosantos or two to Villambistia.
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