Phil and I finally arrived at Madrid airport at 9:30pm last night, getting to our accommodation around an hour later. After checking in...

Not everything goes to plan. Phil and I should at this time be in Madrid sampling the vino Tinto. While we left Melbourne on time, five...

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...

Last night we attended Mass at the Iglesia de Santo Agostino where we caught up with Johnnie Walker (guide book author, Santiago resident...

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...

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...

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...

This morning breakfast was buscits and coffee. The coffee was left for us by our kind hospitaliro and the buiscuits were the emergency...

This morning we had our usual breakfast of coffee and tostada in the bar below the hostel. Unfortunately the barman was still there. The...

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...

The restaurant last night was a surprise. Our hospitalero drove us to the cantina which was under a farmhouse. The cantina was very...

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...

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...

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....

Last night our hospitalario put together a meal of salad together with lentils, rice (complete with a hard boiled egg) and vino tinto...

The breakfast at Bar Mar this morning was interesting. The toastada consisted of week old bread rolls (cold) toasted yesterday. It was...

After an excellent nights sleep we arose to a pre prepared breakfast of the usual stale bread marmalade and coffee. Given that there was...

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...

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...

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...