15th Day on the Camino

29. May An early start again. weather was sunny and the air was fresh in the morning. The climbing began at the little village of Herrerias. We saw familiar pilgrim faces we once in while know from the Albergues or walked together on the Camino. A 1300 meters hike was in front of us. We [...]

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The 14th Day

28. May We started early to cover more ground before lunchtime. It was a walk mostly along a highway, but the other side of Camino was along the Rio Valcarce. But the trail didn’t had much shade and this time,Horst gave up pretty early and we both called it quit after only 14 km in [...]

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Day 13

27. May Finally from Ponferrada we are on a walk which is not climbing up anymore, only the last 5 km to Villafranca del Bierzo was up and the heat of the day made us suffer. We saw the girls from Switzerland, Ires and Marina, again. We all have somehow the same walking distance, only [...]

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The Twelfth Day on The Camino

26. May This morning was clear and sunny,but cold and windy. We were all aware that we all have to face the highest elevation of our Pilgrimage on the Camino. In front of us was a mountain range of 1505 meters above sea level. We went up and up, my back hurt and Horst said [...]

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Day 11

25. May After night of heavy raining and thunder storm ,the morning didn’t look bad and we bought our food for the day and started walking.torward the mountains. Lunch Break before the Rain Big clouds moved in and we got wet, really wet and at El Ganso we went in a nice Albergue as the [...]

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Tenth Day

24. May To get through the Industrial area of Leon, we took a bus with our Pilgrim friends, Gertrud and Rosita, and walked with them from Hospitalde de Orbigo to Astorga. All four of us suffered from the heat up to the 900m Alto Santo Toribio. On the top we had a long lunch break [...]

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