April 24, 2016 Sunday A long walk from Los Arcos to Logroño Walking Day #7 At the end of today I shall have been on the Camino for one full week. Today was to be a little more of a flat day than some recent days, with one large hill and then rolling ups and downs over a few small river valleys. I started the day walking alone, hoping to catch up with Paul […]
April 23, 2016 Saturday Beautiful Post-Rain Walk from Estella to Los Arcos Walking Day #6 After the rain, the air was clear, the sky was bright with some white puffy clouds against a deep blue background. It is a glorious day! Shortly after leaving Estella we came upon the fountain with wine and water. The Bodega Winery provides free wine to pilgrims on the Camino, or you can fill up with water. Because this […]
April 22, 2016 Friday Puenta la Riena to Estella and Rain Walking Day #5 I met Philippe and Marie-Pierre for breakfast in the hotel. They have only two days of walking left for this year’s section of the Camino de Santiago. We soon started the walk to Estella, and it was once again, a beautiful day. There will be only a couple of hills, but not nearly as difficult as those we have traversed […]
April 21, 2016 Thursday Walking from Pamplona over Alta del Perdon and on to Puenta la Riena Walking Day #4 After the rain yesterday, today was clear, bright, with a little crispness in the cool air. A beautiful morning. On the route for today is crossing over Alta del Perdon, where the sculpture of the pilgrims sits on the mountain in between the power-generating windmills (this is another place that was seen in the […]
April 20, 2016 Wednesday Walking from Zubiri to Pamplona in the rain Walking Day #3 It is often said or sung that “the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.” [from the film My Fair Lady]. That may be true, but the rain was falling in Zubiri, and fell on us all the way into Pamplona, and we are far from the meseta (the plains). It rained and rained today, and while not […]
April 19, 2016 Tuesday Roncesvalles to Zubiri Walking Day #2 After that long, long uphill hike yesterday, I am ready for some downhill, and today is indeed a day of mostly downhill. But downhill walking brings more stress on the knees, and my knees are already feeling the stress of the first day up and over part of the Pyrenees mountains. Yesterday, the first day was hard and I was too tired to take […]
The First Day, A Very Hard Day Walking Day #1 Today is my first day walking on the Camino Frances route of the Camino de Santiago. The Camino Frances starts in the little hillside town of Saint Jean Pied de Port in southwestern France, very near the border with Spain. Here I am, about to start walking from the entrance to Saint Jean Pied de Port in France to Roncesvalles in Spain. Somewhere in the […]
James the Intrepid Pilgrim 