Blogs about: El Camino De Santiago
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it seems paulo coelho has done it again- i swear every time i read one of his books my lifeplans shift and my direction becomes simple and clear, even if entirely different. my two remaining goals thi… more →
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Day 31: Arco do Pino to Santiago de Compostela ... 800km in 31 days
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: Chocolate con churros is a typically Spanish breakfast snack. Donut like sticks encrusted with sugar … more →
Day 30: Arzua to Arca do Pino
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: Today was a day of sadness and of beauty and richness. I started out the morning by strapping and pa … more →
Day 29: Palas del Rei to Arzua
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: The day started with zipping noises, crumpling of bags and talking in loud voices. Much like the day … more →
Day 28: Ferreiro to Palas del Rei
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: Last night was tough going. While I was happy to have a roof over my head and a mattress, no matter … more →
Day 26: O Cebreiro to Triacastela
backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: I walked today, at different times, with a French priest and a Dutch rugby player. It is one of the … more →
Day 26: O Cebreiro to Triacastela
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: I walked today, at different times, with a French priest and a Dutch rugby player. It is one of the … more →
Day 24: Ponferrada to Villafranca del Bierzo
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: Crush. My feet bore down on the berries and cherries lying on the road. Dyed red the cherry berry ro … more →
Day 23: Rabanal del Camino to Ponferrada
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: The morning was trying to start like an old car in the middle of winter. The sun pushed an occasiona … more →
Day 22: Astorga to Rabanal del Camino
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: Clouds like swhirls of broad brushed impressionist paint filled the sky. Like some giant kaleidoscop … more →
Day 20: Léon to San Martin de Camino
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: In Indigenous culture in Australia they speak about the time of dreaming when the land was laid down … more →
Day 21: San Martin de Camino to Astorga
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: Canals, corn cobs and contrails greeted me as I began today’s walk. Today’s walk was a b … more →
Day 19: Mansilla de las Mulas to Léon
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: “The followers of the sun”, he said “used to walk this route. They would follow th … more →
Day 18: Bercianos de Real Camino to Mansilla de las Mulas
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: I followed my shadow today.. Actually, to be completely honest I follow my shadow everyday. It seems … more →
Day 17: Terradillos de Templarios to Berciano Real Camino
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: “Why are you walking the Camino?” is a common question among us.. The answers vary and i … more →
Day 16: Carrion de las Condes to Terradillos de Templarios (town of the Knight's Templar and the halfway mark passed)
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: As the red and yellow Spanish flag whips about against a background of mud and red brick houses I he … more →
Day 15: Fromista to Carrion de las Condes
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backpackingteacher wrote 4 months ago: I found myself lisping and limping today…The limping came as a result of shoes that have final … more →
Day 14: Hontanas to Fromista
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backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: I took a stone the size of a five cent piece out of my shoe today. It had worn through both pairs of … more →
Day 13: Burgos to Hontanas (the beginning of the mesetas)
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backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: Today was the day of the long walk, of yellow, of flatness, of nothingness but it started well enoug … more →
Day 12: Atapuerca to Burgos (and it's amazing Cathedral)
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backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: “Too much boring”, the sign on the pole said and it was entirely correct. There was a lo … more →
