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Day 34 – I made it!
May 19, 2026 – Santiago de Compostela
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Days 32 & 33, to Arzúa & 0’Pedrouzo
May 17 and 18, 2026 20 kilometres to go, tomorrow I get to Santiago! Two more days have gone by, walking through woods, fields and small towns, up and down and up and down. The landscape hasn’t changed much, except that there are more and more eucalyptus trees. They are not native to Spain, but…
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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 28, to Samos
May 13, 2026 128 km left to go and six days to get it done. I can do it! I am in Samos tonight. This morning it was beautiful to leave in the cool morning air, hear birds and cow bells, and smell the clean, fresh air of a day after rain. It was also…
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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 22 & 23, A Sunny Day and a Rainy Day
May 7, to Astorga (about 18k) and May 8, to Rabanal del Camino (about 20k) On May 7 I started walking while it was still dark. The first town I reached, 2.6 km away, did not have any open eateries or stores. So I walked on to the next town, Santibáñez de Valdeiglesias, about 3…