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It’s sweltering but there’s a semblance of a breeze. The frangipani in the faux Chinese pottery occasionally, but somewhat listlessly waves it’s pink flower festooned arms. In the ba… more →
Backpacking Teacher
Ty Coz
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backpackingteacher wrote 1 month ago: It’s sweltering but there’s a semblance of a breeze. The frangipani in the faux Chinese … more →
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 22: Astorga to Rabanal del Camino
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backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: Clouds like swhirls of broad brushed impressionist paint filled the sky. Like some giant kaleidoscop … more →
Day 18: Bercianos de Real Camino to Mansilla de las Mulas
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backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: I followed my shadow today.. Actually, to be completely honest I follow my shadow everyday. It seems … more →
Day 15: Fromista to Carrion de las Condes
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backpackingteacher wrote 5 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 11: Belorado to Atapuerca
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backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: My hands turned blue and I began to find it difficult to talk. This early morning’s walk out o … more →
Day 10: Santa Domingo de la Calzada to Belorado and entering the Castille y Leon Region
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backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: The church has chickens in it. This is no accident but Santa Domingo de la Calzada is always seen in … more →
Day 9: Najera to Santa Domingo de la Calzada and the best Abergue ever
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backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: I am a hamster on a wheel. With the sun at my back and walking ever westwards I walk against the Ear … more →
Day 8: Logrono to Najera
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backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: “That’s a Peregrino. He’s going to Santiago, far, far away”, I heard a fathe … more →
Day 6: Estella to Los Arcos
backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: I’ve just realised that my legs have gears. It’s not that I hadn’t used them befor … more →
Day 5: Puenta la Reina to Estella
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backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: I saw a green arrow and felt lost today. Now normally a green arrow indicates going forward in the a … more →
Day 1: St Jean Pied de Port to Roncesvalles
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backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: The day started with a bit of a splutter as fellow dormers started getting up at 5am. I had slept, w … more →
Arrival in St. Jean Pied de Port
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backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: I’ve arrived in St. Jean Pied de Pont (SJPP) after boarding a delightfully slow chugging train … more →
Paris: Charles de Gaul Airport by TGV to Biarritz
backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: Arrived at Paris CDG airport – what an airport, efficient, clean, bright and, dare I say frien … more →
Waiting on a flight: Saigon to Paris
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backpackingteacher wrote 5 months ago: Ah Saigon airport and it’s horrendously priced Illy coffee. I quite like the airport here, it … more →
Phnom Penh – West of Saigon and slightly wilder
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backpackingteacher wrote 6 months ago: Phnom Penh has this reputation as being slightly wild west’ish. It has a reputation for unbri … more →
War Remnants Museum Saigon – a sombre experience
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backpackingteacher wrote 7 months ago: A few weekends ago I finally got off my fat backside to go do one of Saigon’s touristy sights. The W … more →
