Compostella 2017 / Via Podiensis 2022

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...

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....

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...

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it. Leo Tolstoy Day 11 and 12 14 and 15 .04.22 Livinhac le- haut to Figeac. 24 km. Now very warm 25 degrees some ups and downs but not as bad as the day before. But somehow, we were both exhausted....

The fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them. Day 10 13.04.22 Conques - Livinhac le haut 25 km. The first part was close to vertical and that for ages.. and then the usual up and down. It is definitely much warmer...

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!...

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...

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...

I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. Day 6 Aumont- Aubrac to Nasbinals, 27,7 km. Temperature 2 degrees, very windy, quite clear first and then snow in the end of the day. What a fantastic day, so beautiful sceneries, so desolated....

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...

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...

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...

What you are being challenged by may be the very thing you’ve been waiting for. beautiful weather but quite cold. A hard day today. We are very tired after a challenging walk. An another pilgrim, Dominique from France joined us today, we met most of the...

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. Puy-en- vellay, France, via Podiensis, Monday the 4th of April 2022 to Combriaud. 26 km ( Not really...

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...

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...

"Le chemin des vignes", the vineyear's camino" Back from the Camino.... after the euphoria of " I managed" come the depressing days of "no more walking the Camino", The restless legs syndrome. The first day is OK. Hairdresser, peeling, etc... becoming...

Part of Maria's stone boat. It is said to have magical powers. 20 km. Cloudy but not rainy. We joined the Camino, the apprentice and I (brought there by car by the hotel owner). Heavy traffic on the Camino. I did not see that many people since the Camino...

Lires/ NEMINA beach 21 km beautiful day. We started quite late around 9 O'clock as today's walk was only 14 km. The plan was to walk to Lires and to stay there for the night. My apprentice pilgrim (Tore) and myself followed the arrows as usual and came...