From Los Arcos to Torres del Rio (7.6 km)
I am a mother on the Camino today.
I sleep in until 6:30. Me feet are feeling better but they are still tender. I think today should be a rest day and enquire to see if I can stay for another day. … [Read more]
From Cerauqui to Los Arcos (35.6 km)
Sore feet are my companions on the Camino today. I get up around 6:00 which seems to be the norm now and I make two crucial errors before I even begin to walk. … [Read more]
Hi folks… losing track of the days here… it´s Monday, so that would make it day 7? Yes… day seven.
Stayed at a nice little Austrian hostel two nights ago… think the town was called El Corton? … [Read more]
From Cizur Menor to Cirauqui (24.4 km)
Solitude is my companion on the Camino today. I begin my day again at 6:45, seems to be a pattern now. I start out alone and after walking for half an hour I pause to take a brief video to introduce my day – something I am doing each morning. … [Read more]
From Zubiri to Cizur Menor (25.2 km)
It is day 6 and I finally have Internet access again and time to write, but the internet is expensive (one euro for twenty minutes) and I have so much to share. … [Read more]
Well, as Christina will atest, I can be my own worst enemy.
Despite thinking last night that I´d take a day to rest my weary feet, I arose this morning feeling rested, with feet that didn´t actually hurt too bad… and so… I soldiered on towards Estella, about 24kms down the road.… [Read more]
Well, despite what I thought I might do today, I pressed on to Puente La Reina, about 24km from Pamplona.
Upon waking up, my feet felt better than when I went to bed, and I thought I´d be good to go. … [Read more]
Some pics of my camino thus far… no lipstick or make-up… I´ll do that later when I have the chance… damn I miss my laptop…
More later… it´s painful trying to do this from the alburgue computers!!!… [Read more]
Well, I managed to quite literally, ´hobble´to Pamplona, and am staying at the ´Jesus e Maria´albergue (7 euro)… bed #5 if you´re looking for me sweetie…
I am really enjoying the journey… walking for the most part in solitude, but chatting to people occasionally along the way, but at the moment, my feet feel like hamburger… blistered and bruised like they´ve never been before… my hiking boots are toast… (hmmmm… hamburger and toast would taste good right now…) 🙂
I tried everything today… changing socks, changing into my hiking sandles… nothing would give me much relief, until I put on the thickest pair of hiking socks, which make everything feel really tight, but they were the lesser of all evils.… [Read more]
Had a relatively restful sleep last night… the accomodations were great!
Got an early start, I was walking at 6:25am or so… it´s actually nice to start early; it´s cool, and the sun is just coming up, so the lighting for potential pictures is fantastic!… [Read more]