Compostella 2017 / Via Podiensis 2022

26,5 km blue sky 20 degrees. It took 6,5 hours to walk the distance. Really beautiful and rewarding walk today. We were still tired from yesterday. I was ready to continue tomorrow but my two companions want to take a day off. Blisters, tiredness, upset...

33 km. Grey but did not rain. 20 degrees 8 hours to destination. Now we know that we can walk over 33 km (with some really hard hills) but we do not like it. It was 2 old women arriving to Colombres. Notice that some others much younger did not look better....

24 km blue sky. Not as warm around 20 degrees. 5 hours to get there. Very nice section of the Camino. We met some of our French friends on the way and walked with them the way to COMILLAS. Small cute villages and a few stops later we arrived to a memorable...

24 km very warm 25 degrees blue sky 6 hours to get there Nothing exceptional with that walk. Actually extremely boring, mostly on the road. A necessary transition to get to SANTILLANA. Santillana is one of these city museum. Beautiful houses from the...

26 km beautiful day 25 degrees 6 hours to get there Fantastic walk along the cliff. One of the best😁... to return to Santander. We met some of our fellow pilgrims again. We decided on taking the buss to leave Santander and walk the rest of the way to...

23,5 km mostly sunny. Quite warm 23 degrees. It took 5 hours to get there. Two days in Santander and my friend is feeling OK. Time to go back by buss to the place where stopped last : Santona. It might seem a little pedantic to go back but I absolutely...

5,7 km to Santona + 4 km waking around Santander. Blue sky but quite cold. 17 degrees feeling like15. It took one hour to walk the 5,7km. A new development in yesterday's drama. After the hospital visit everything was all right, we left more or less at...

27,2 km Rain part of the time. Good weather in the afternoon. It took 6 and half hours to walk that part. Full drama on the Camino today!!!🤢 My friend ate something that did not fit (Don't know what but the ham sandwich, the orange juice or the apple...

27,5 km blue sky part of the day, cloudy after and quite cold 17 degrees as a max. It took 7 hours to reach the place. And it was nearly flat!!!!😁 So back on the saddle, so to speak. The road is calling again. Harsh start for my friend "who should train...

My friend has finally arrived and we just tourist (very good at that, a Real master ). As the weather is cold nothing better than visiting museums. So nothing much to tell. I really enjoyed the guggenheim very much inside and outside. The giant spider...

20 km cold, raining a bit, windy and terribly boring landscape. It took 4 hours to reach. Flat as a pancake. The famous guggenheim early in the morning leaving Bilbao I left Bilbao behind me for today (I am going back tomorrow to meet my friend). The...

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...

16,2 km. Rainy. 15 degrees. 4 hours to get here. Well, it had to happen!!! Rain! Not really fun, very slippery ups and downs (because it is still quite tough. I talked to some people today and we all admitted that we had been naive about how hard the...

27 km (exaushting km why are the Spanish km much longer than the Swedish km?) Up and down again. Not as hard as yesterday but hard. The last 8 km never ended. Beautiful weather 25 degrees. Warm to walk up and down. It took 8 hours to reach destination...

Enormous stones in a church/ énormes rochers dans une église VERSION ENGLISH 23,3 +2 (detour some problem, they did apologize for the extra bit) beautiful weather 23 degrees ( felt lime much more going up). Very much up and down (supposed to be one of...

DAY 13 resting day. Beautiful weather 23 degrees. Due a bad knee and the fact that I have extra days to take myself to Bilbao, i decided to take a day off. Lekeitio is a small very cute and very touristy town. Not the same kind as the Compostella road...

13,1 km blue sky but quite cold 16 degrees 3 hours 30 minutes to reach Yesterday I stayed at that convent for nuns as I told yesterday. 400 years of history, etc, etc... I tell you what the nuns can't have lived very long. The place was freezing cold....

A L ' ATTENTION DES LECTEURS FRANCOPHONES. Vous avez certainement l'impression que tout est en anglais sur ce blog. Malheureusement J' ai un peu du mal à suivre. Donc la version en français, qui je le re6n'a peut-être rien à voir avec la version en anglais...

SAN SEBASTIAN / ZARAUTZ little over 20 km (18 according to the book) beautiful weather the all day, blue sky but quite cold. 16 degrees. It took 6 hours to walk the all way. Much up and down (the down went very slowly. And I have some pain in one knee)...

26,5 km cloudy in the morning, beautiful in the afternoon variating temperature 17-25. 7 hours walk. Very much up and down. Category 5 in difficulté according to the guide book (did not feel that bad at all) Leaving HONDARRIBIA without problem (for once!)....