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Days 30 & 31, to Portomarín & Palas de Rei
May 15 and 16, 2026 It’s been two days of walking through the Galician countryside. The first day it drizzled and rained the whole way, about 20K, but it wasn’t unpleasant, rather beautiful in some ways. I crossed the 100K to Santiago marker! The Camino goes up and down and up and down through fields…
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Day 29, to Barbadelo
May 14, 2026 On the Camino last year my brother and I walked from Samos to Sarria where we stayed the night. The next day we took the bus from Sarria to a town 10 K before Santiago, stayed the night there, and the next morning walked the last 10 K into Santiago. This year…
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Day 27, to Fonfría
May 12, 2026 The Camino today was a relatively short walk (about 20K) in rain and drippy fog. I crossed from León into Galicia, where it always rains I’m told. It was up La Laguna: And more up to O’Cebreiro: Then up and down and up and down to Liñares: Next up to Alto de San…
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Day 26, to La Faba
May 11, 2026 Today my father would have been 101 years old. He was a really cool person, and I loved him very much. The Camino this morning started going over the bridge in Villafranca and up. It was a gentle uphill walk about 20k to Las Herrerías, through a number of small towns: Pereje…
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Day 25, to Villafranca del Bierzo
May 10, 2026 I am in the region called Bierzo, part of León. Bierzo, like Rioja, is a wine producing area. The Camino meanders through many vineyards in a hilly landscape. There also are fruit trees, and right now the cherries are ripe and very good. Ponferrada is the main city in Bierzo. It’s about…
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Day 24, to Molinaseca
May 9, 2026 I started walking shortly after 6am. It was dark, and raining. I made good use of my headlamp. It rained for the first 6K going uphill to Foncebadón. Then it was foggy, pea-soup as someone called it, for quite a long time. After reaching Cruz de Ferro, the highest point of the…
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Days 20 & 21, A Difficult Day and a Day to Rest
May 5, to San Martín del Camino & May 6, to Hospital de Órbigo I’m roughly 280 kilometers from Santiago, and I feel very good, physically and mentally. But yesterday was a very difficult day. It was the last day that Zazi, a woman from the UK, and I walked together. We had been walking…
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Days 15 & 16, to Carrión de los Condes & Lédigos
April 30 and May 1st, 2026 It’s been two very peaceful and rather easy walking days. The weather has been great, the Camino is well marked, the food fine. The only bad thing is that I caught a cold. I hope to get over it soon. We walked about 20k on Thursday, to Carrión de…
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Day 11, A Rest Day in Burgos
We had great difficulty finding lodging in between Belorado and Burgos. We decided to skip that section of the Camino, take the bus to Burgos, and take a rest day in Burgos. We got to Burgos by about 10 in the morning, waited for the Albergue Municipal to open, checked in, cleaned up a bit,…
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June 11 – In Porto, Portugal
Jerry and I said goodbye at the bus station in Santiago, where I took a bus to Porto, about 3 hours away. I am staying at a hostel in the centre of Porto. It is quite comfortable and very convenient to walk around and see a bit of this lovely city. Below, a selection of…