Compostella 2017 / Via Podiensis 2022

Lighthouse in Fisterra 8 km. Beautifull weather Now it is time to initiate my husband Tore to the joy of pilgrimage. As it is hard to find somebody less trained, we begin with taking the buss to Fisterra. The Goal is visiting the lighthouse and the village...

The COMPOSTELLA A few km in town, mainly looking at souvenir shops. Quite cold and rainy. Santiago. FIRST THING in the morning, getting the Compostella, the document that assures that you arrived to Compostella and finished your pilgrimage. I had always...

Compostella 28 km mixed weather, warm, stuffy, style 23 degrees. Very humid but not rainy. It took around 6 and half hours to get there Up quite late according to our own standard but we (a frenchman, his girlfriend, an Englishman and myself) had decided...

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....

26 km it begin to rain extremely heavily and constantly after 1 hour walk and until I arrived. 20 degrees. It took 6 hours to reach. Totally drenched. The French expression to be soaked to the bones has got a new meaning. I have never ever been so totally...

6h30 on the camino 36 km beautiful weather 29 at 12 O 'clock. 24 later on. It took 9 hours to reach our destination. Early start for a few, I included. 6 O'clock on track... could not see a thing and the pocket lamp was somewhere. Notice that nobody had...

Cows could be in sweden 22 km. Extremely hot around 12 O'clock and on. 32 degrees.....It took 7 hours to walk to destination and it was a dehydrated and tired pilgrim arriving. Very nice walk today. Really countryside. Women with scarf on the head, clothes...

The cathedral of Mondoneo 25 km. Blue sky medium warm (around 22) it took 8 hours to get there. Can we say that the way was only up? A long day. No ups and downs only up, up, up. First stop after 8 km. Mondoneo. An old nice little town with a real big...

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...

25,5 km blue sky up to 25 degrees it took 7 hours to reach Not too speedy today. It was a gorgeous day. We were the last to leave at the hostel and the nature was beautiful. We have had that kind of sceneries before but today was special. For a whole...

30,5 km blue sky 22 degrees 8 hours to reach destination Long way today... but we were well prepared. No mud bath, everything organised. We left at 7h sharp. One of the Camino boy, a Frenchman celebrated his birthday that day. A few people knew it and...

17,5 km mainly cloudy but not rainy. 16 degrees 3h 30min to get there. Very short walk. After a good breakfast in the appartemento, we headed for Luarca. The feet were patched, cleaned, disinfected, massaged. It remains me a bit of these Japanese cows,...

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...

32, 5 km + 3,5 (took the wrong turn) pouring rain the all day. About 16 degrees. 9 long hours to get there. What a day!!! After such a nice hostel and a nice evening, it was a bit of a anticlimax to leave the hostel under pouring rain. I left with a couple,...

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...

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...

18 km. A short walk again. Beautiful weather, 28 degrees. It took a little bit over 4 hours to walk to destination. It was warm but really nice walk (Except for my tortured feet). We arrived early in Villaviciousa. It means "vicious town".why would you...

21 km good weather most of the time 10 minutes rain just enough to get the rain clothes out and in again 24 degrees. Short and mostly nice walk. We (Christian, the German pilgrim and I ) met a group of French pilgrims. We all stayed in the same hotel...

30 km blue sky, sometimes cloudy and even some rain last 15 minutes. It took 8 hours to reach the destination. A very long day. Interesting way but 30 km is a lot. Strange up to 25, it is no problem but the last ones are a real bitch. I have some problems...

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...