12:31pm – Uterga Mateo and I stop at this cozy but super hip albergue after Monte Perdon [Sierra del Perdon], an absolutely deathly up-hill climb. Misty and foggy; Seatle-like, how the mountain holds in the rain on the Pamplona side. At the top is a man selling juices, coffee and treats. This was prophesied by this delightful [...]
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June 19, 2009 – Uterga
Posted in Spain, tagged Alto del Perdon, camino, Camino de Santiago de Compostela, camino journal, Puente La Reina, Sierra del Perdon, Spain, Uterga on 19 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
June 18, 2009 – Pamplona
Posted in Spain, tagged camino, Camino de Santiago de Compostela, Ernest Hemingway, Pamplona, Spain on 18 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
8:15am, Ezkirotz We wake at 615am with my alarm, check our bags, check our email, eat the second half of my sandwich. This morning’s hike 53min, took us by a Magna Construction Co. site, our first blah moment, but this town is cute and has a good place to site and public water fountain. It’s [...]
The dangers of the road
Posted in citations, Spain, words, tagged cavalier, chevalier, Spain, Tales of the Alhambra, Washington Irving on 21 June, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The dangers of the road produce, also, a mode of travelling, resembling, on a diminutive scale, the caravans of the East. The arrieros or carriers congregate in troops, and set off in large and well-armed trains on appointed days, while individual travellers swell their number, and contribute to their strength. In this primitive way is [...]
June 24, 2009 – Santo Domingo de la Calzada
Posted in Spain, words, tagged camino, camino legends, chickens, miracles, Santiago de Compostela, santo domingo de la calzada on 2 January, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This entry is taken from my Camino journal. June 24, 2009 – Santo Domingo de la Calzada Though only 21 km from Najera, this trip was most difficult for me due to the blisters on the backs of my twin heels and a new one having formed on my big right toe. I am told [...]
July 10, 2009 – A Death in the Afternoon
Posted in Spain on 10 July, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Running of the Bulls We stop in Hospital, our second camino town of the day since leave Mount El Cabron (O Cebrero…) and passing through Linares, to have toast with jam and a co-cola, and just in time for the third day in a row to see the Running of the Bulls on the [...]
June 26, 2009 – Agés
Posted in Spain, tagged Agés, camino, camino journal, Santiago de Compostela on 27 June, 2009 | 1 Comment »
East – the last word we want to hear on the camino. “Go west, young man,” is the calling on this trip. Any notions of east would be against the metaphysics of this entire trip. And yet, east has happened. The march today was very good, perhaps the best I´ve felt in a while. And [...]
June 25, 2009 – Belorado
Posted in Spain, tagged Belorado, camino, camino journal, Santiago de Compostela, Spain on 26 June, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Spanish – Last night was something else. Mateo and I are watching the United States play Spain in the Confederation Cup. We find a bar near the Albergue and settle in, as the bar is already crowded, full of Spaniards, including a large group of pilgrims we´ve been traveling with. But Mateo and I [...]
June 20, 2009 – Estella
Posted in Spain, tagged camino, estella, Santiago de Compostela on 24 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
9:15pm – Estella We strove into town like two c0nquering heroes today. We had been told Albergue Anfas was the place to go, and this place is amazing – it doubles as a hostel for pilgrims and a center for children who have mental handicaps, specifically down syndrome. The senora of the house had cold [...]
June 17, 2009 – Zubiri
Posted in Spain, tagged camino, Camino de Santiago de Compostela, camino journal, Roncesvalles, Santiago de Compostela, Spain on 19 June, 2009 | 1 Comment »
815pm Today was difficult – there is no way around that nugget, and no real need for elaboration, given a) it´s our first day, b) no sleep, c) complete lack of fitness and shape for this type of Pyrenes manuvering. Perhaps it is the late 10am start where we felt we´d use our adrineline to [...]
June 17, 2009 – Roncesvalles
Posted in Spain, tagged camino, Camino de Santiago de Compostela, camino journal, Roncesvalles, Santiago de Compostela, Spain on 18 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
725am We are currently waiting for the office in the abbey to open (10am), as well a place for breakfast (?am). We arrived in the coach to Pamplona around 530am, proceeded via cab (via 65C), which brought us here around 615a. The only complany we´ve seen or spoken to is a sullen Spaniard on a [...]
