San Juan de Ortega; 24.2 km/15 miles Steep steady uphill climb for most of the first 20 km…resting our feet for the afternoon then Mass and dinner…
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Easy paced walk through harvested wheat fields and sunflowers…
Belorado ; 20 km/12.4 miles We arrived late morning surprised to already be at our destination! It’s a beautiful town so we’ll spend the afternoon exploring…we’ve left the vineyards and are in the Castilla y Léon area…lots of murals here…Buen Camino
Santo Domingo and Granon
Day 13; 24 km/15 miles Another beautiful sunrise after a walk in the dark! Fortunately, our hostess at the casa had a spread ready the night before to include homemade Spanish style coffee cake! It was a good thing as we had several steep uphill climbs where we prayed our Rosary to make it up! …
Alesanco Festival
Day 11; 19.2 km/ 12 miles We started off before dawn and listened to thunder and watched lightening as the morning broke! No rain…praised be! Najera, the first town we came into is a beautiful old town and we toured a monastery…see captions… We arrived in Azofra and when finding our way to Alesanco, everyone …
Strolling through wine country
Ventosa; Day 11; 22.8 km/13.6 miles We strolled a nice uphill grade to Ventosa…saw beautiful swans with cygnets; talked with lots of pilgrims again from all over the world! Having paella for dinner!
Beautiful early morning hike!
Another predawn presented many surprises! Here they are!
Torres del Rio rest and relaxation
We think that it’s very true that you drink a lot of wine as you work your way thru the El Camino…or beer if that’s your preference! Anyhoo, enjoy these photos! Buen Camino!
Days melding together; unexpected 12 hour day
I didn’t mention Muruzábal distance; Day 6; 19.8 km/12.7 miles Lorca; 21 km/13 miles Los Arcos; 31.3 km/19.8 miles Torres del Rio; 7.8 km/ 4.9 miles; recuperating! We started in the dark for 2 days about 30-45 minutes before sunrise. Generally, we walk/hike for a few hours till we get to a village with a …
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Torres de Rio
Along the way, we ran into our Hong Kong friends again !
To Los Arcos
Soooo…we thought our stop was in a place called Cruce…confirmed rsvp in Pamplona…welll, after taking a lovely, wooded alternate path, when we rejoined, we never got to Cruce (no actual place)…only choice, 8.8 additional km…once we arrived to our actual destination after 12 hours, our room had been given away…eventually a different albergue hospitalera called …
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