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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 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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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 12, to Hornillos del Camino
April 27, 2026 I am, fortunately, safe and dry at my albergue in Hornillos del Camino. It is 4:40 in the afternoon and it is raining. Pouring! Buckets of water. Loud thunder. Bright lightning. I am so glad not to be out walking anymore today. It is, however, supposed to rain for the next two…