Madrid, Charmartin The One 8 June 2024
This is the last blog post for this Camino. Yesterday evening we attended the Mass of the Feast of the Sacred Heart at Inglesia de San...
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jdm496
Jun 71 min
Santiago de Compostela, Hostel Pico Sacro 7 June 2024
Last night we attended Mass at the Iglesia de Santo Agostino where we caught up with Johnnie Walker (guide book author, Santiago resident...
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jdm496
Jun 71 min
Santiago de Compostela, Hostel Pico Sacro 6 June 2024
Last night we had an excellent meal with our friends Tony and Johan, another two Australians from NSW and a woman from Missouri. The meal...
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jdm496
Jun 61 min
Santiago de Compostela, Hostel Pico Sacro 5 June 2024
As usual it was up at 6:30am, breakfast (tostada and cafe americano) and on the road by 7:30. Apart from being in fog for the majority of...
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jdm496
Jun 51 min
Eiravedra, Pension Residencial Victoria 4 June 2024
Today we had a lay in until 7.30 but were on the track by 8.00am. Breakfast consisted of stale croissants and leftover cheese as the bars...
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jdm496
Jun 41 min
Bandeira, Bandeira Pilgrim Hostel 3 June 2024
This morning breakfast was buscits and coffee. The coffee was left for us by our kind hospitaliro and the buiscuits were the emergency...
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jdm496
Jun 31 min
Lalin, Hostel Lalin Centro 2 June 2024
This morning we had our usual breakfast of coffee and tostada in the bar below the hostel. Unfortunately the barman was still there. The...
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jdm496
Jun 22 min
Rodeiro, Hostel Carpinteiras 1 June 2024
As it was to be a shorter walk today we organised breakfast at 8:00am and our host at Hotel Vilaseco put on a great spread and provided...
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jdm496
Jun 12 min
Penasillis, Hotel Vilaseco 31 May 2024
The restaurant last night was a surprise. Our hospitalero drove us to the cantina which was under a farmhouse. The cantina was very...
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jdm496
May 311 min
Diomondi, Municipal Albergue 30 May 2024
Having been made aware that there were no services between Monforte de Lemos and Diomondi we stocked up with food for the day and the...
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jdm496
May 301 min
Monforte, de Lemos, Pension Mino 29 May 2024
Last night it was 4 Australians staying in A Labrada. While Paul and I ate in the afternoon Tony and Johan elected for a later dinner. We...
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jdm496
May 291 min
A Labrada, Pension Pacita 28 May 2024
Breakfast this morning was biscuits, a baby cheese and water, followed by a 6.5 km walk into Quiroga where a real breakfast was obtained....
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jdm496
May 281 min
Soldon, Apartment O Muino 27 May 2024
Last night our hospitalario put together a meal of salad together with lentils, rice (complete with a hard boiled egg) and vino tinto...
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jdm496
May 271 min
A Rua de Valdeorras, Municipal Albergue 26 May 2024
The breakfast at Bar Mar this morning was interesting. The toastada consisted of week old bread rolls (cold) toasted yesterday. It was...
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jdm496
May 261 min
Sobradelo, Bar Mar 25 May 2024
After an excellent nights sleep we arose to a pre prepared breakfast of the usual stale bread marmalade and coffee. Given that there was...
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jdm496
May 251 min
Borrenes, Hotel Rural Cornatel Medulas 24 May 2024
Last night was spent in a room for 8 and again nobody snored which is unusual but the norm so far on this pilgrimage. As usual we were up...
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jdm496
May 241 min
Ponferrada, Albergue de Peregrinos San Nicolas de Flue 23 May 2024
This morning we escorted Kate to a nearby taxi rank where we said good bye as she headed to the train station for her trip back to Madrid...
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jdm496
May 232 min
Leon, Albergue Santa Maria de Carbajal 22 May 2024
After a good nights sleep (for myself and Paul) and a not so good sleep for Kate we headed for Leon. Again it was another relatively...
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jdm496
May 222 min
Mansilla de las Mulas, Hotel Rural la Casa de Los Soportales 21 May 2024
Last night after a very large Spanish meal we spent an excellent evening talking with our Australian hospitaleros in El Burgo Ranero. The...
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jdm496
May 211 min
El Burgo Ranero, Albergue de Camino de Santiago 20 May 2024
Today we were up at 6:30am, packed and across the road for breakfast just after seven. Being on the Camino Frances there are now dozens...
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