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DAY 36 GIJON / SAN MARTIN
24 km (should have been 31 km ) blue sky. Really warm 27 degrees (feeling like much more). It took 6 hours to reach destination. We walked one of the most boring bit of the Camino today. The first bit beside a road full of trucks and car was unnecessary...
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DAY 35 VILLAVICIOUSA / GIJON
30,5 km. Very warm blue sky 28 degrees. It took 7 and half hours to reach destination. Very important walk. First it was during the first km that the decision Camino primitivo versus coast (del Norte) should be taken. I had more or less decided to continue...
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Blog essai/ Blog trial
Version Française Dominique 57 ans en route vers les 58, dur, dur.... Une vie plutôt remplie pendant les années passées à l'étranger et puis le retour dans mon pays d'adoption ou plutôt le pays de mon mari, la Suède. Nous vivons en pleine forêt dans une...
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Via Francigena planned itinerary
Traveller, there is no path, paths are made by walking. Itinerary according to my guide. The LightFoot Guide, via Francigena, The great Saint Bernard Pass to Saint Peter's Square. Here is our planned itinerary with departure the 4th of April. We'll take...
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DAY 41 RIBADEO / LOURENZA
Old grains mills? 29 km (26 accord ing to my guide, 29 according to everyone else) and 29 in reality. My book is rubbish. Blue sky very warm 26 degrees. Or took around 8 hours to get there. This walk was mostly without interest. Very much asphalt. Mountains...
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Day 7 Saint-Come-d'Olt to Espalion
Day 7 10.04.2022 St-Come-d'Olt to Espalion, 8 km, warm 17 degrees and the road goes straight up followed by straight down. As you all noticed, I published an empty article... it is an accident, I still don't manage that blog, hopefully it will be better...
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Day 8 Espalion to Golinhac
Day 8 12.04.2022 Espalion to Golinhac 26,6 km. Hard, up and down the all time (700m up, 400 m down), extremely windy in the end ( up to 100 km/h) On the road again with some of the pilgrims we met the first day. It was a killing day. For me the worse...
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The via Francigena is calling
Some people around you will not understand your journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them. Time to go! The via Francigena is calling... After the camino de Compostella I knew that I had only done part of the journey. It became close to an obsession...
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Day 3 Saugues to les faux
Follow your dreams, they know the way Saugues to les faux. 24 km quite hard. Bad weather in the afternoon, hail for at least an hour We left in the morning quite happily after a good breakfast at the pilgrim lodge "the farm". Our lodger, Jesus was quite...
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Day 4 Les Faux to Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole
You get creative when you replace fear of the unknown with love of the unknown. Day 4 Les Faux to Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole. 5,5 km, rain, supercold, windy. The map is the same as yesterday. Pilgrim Marie-noëlle is definitely not well. We stopped in Saint-Alban...
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Day 5 Saint-Alban sur limagol to Aumont- Aubrac
If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us? Saint-Alban sur limagnol to Aumont-Aubrac 15,5 km cold, partly rainy and very windy. On the road again, beautiful walking in a pine forest and through fields but so bitter cold...
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Day 9 Golinhac to Conques
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. Day 9 13.04. 22 Golinhac to Conques. 21 km. Quite warm. A bit shorter today but tough as usual. The last few km downhill did not help the knees... Back in Conques!...
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Day 16 Gramat to Rocamadour
Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be. Day 16 19.02.2022 Gramat to Rocamadour 13 km + 5 extra in the village and all the stairs up and down to the hotel (Placed over the village) good weather. We left the...
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Day 17-18 Cahors
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. Lin Yutang Day 17-18 the 20-21 of April Cahors some rain, temperature around 16 degrees We...
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Day 19 cahors to Lascabanes
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley Day 19 Cahors to Lascabanes the 22nd of April 24 km easy, a little up and down. We...
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Day 26 Condom to Montréal
Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind. Day 26 Condom to Montréal the 29th of April. Not rainy but cold and humid 16 km A short walk together with 2 pilgrims, Brigitte and Pascal to Montréal (we did not change country even if the...
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Material prepared/suggestions?
Here is everything that I plan to take with me. Too much? Material For the first time ever, I have only high quality material, light, durable, warm when it should and cool if warm. The question is, is it too much? did I forget something? I wait for your...
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DAY 46 SOBRAGO/SALCEDA
The 50 km signs / only 28 km in the end of the day 32 km warm blue sky most the day. It took around 8 hours to get there. Last morning on the Camino del Norte . Today in Arzua, we are meeting the Camino Frances with its hordes of "100" kilometers pilgrims....
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DAY 37 SOTO DE LUINA / CADAVEDO
25 km by the road (most of of it) pouring rain 16 degrees. 5 hours to get there. We decided to get to CADAVEDO as soon as possible. At 6 h30 in the morning we were on the road. At 7h in the morning we were splatching in a new mud bath even worse than...
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DAY 31 LLANES
DAY off Walking around llanes and eating seafood. That resumes the day. Asturias seem to bring nice surprises. The food is increasingly better here than Cantabria. Day off means also washing clothes and now everything is clean. This sensation of sheer...
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DAY 17 /LARRABETZU / BILBAO
15 km rain cold a Real pain. And took the wrong road AGAIN (we were 4 people not paying attention). 4 km by buss. Departure for Bilbao in the rain. We are 4 women, Viviane from New-Zealand, Harriet from England, Harriem from the Nederland and I. And we...
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Day 13 Figeac to Cardaillac
Day 13 16.04.2022 Figeac to Cardaillac 10 km easy, beautiful weather After a day off in Figeac, a lighter bag as we have sent some stuff home, we enjoyed to walk on that very nice trail. A new trail mostly in field and shadowed forest opened only a month...
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Day 14 Cardalliac to Thémines
Day 14 17.02.2022 Cardaillac to Themines 24 km a beautiful day, warm in the sun, still slightly cold in the shadow. Easy walking. Goodbye Cardaillac! Picture: Cardaillac from the other side of the valley. A really enjoyable day with changing sceneries....
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Day 15 Thémines to Gramat
Day 15 18.02.2022 Themines to Gramat 13 km. Again a easy day, cloudy in the morning and clear in the afternoon. Departure from Themines Rocamadour is the highlight of this section. We wanted a short walk to come to Rocamadour in the morning and visit...
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Day 21 Lauzerte to Moissac
Day 21 Lauzerte to Moissac, 26,5 km rainy again And there we go again in the rain. Two accidents, I managed to fall on the side on my arm in the mud and then on my ass, sliding one more meter each time I tried to go up. As you see not too impressive....