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This will most likely be my last Via de la Plata blog post. New adventures call, and later this year I’ll walk the 750 klm Via...
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Apr 24, 20244 min read
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90 Days
It's now a little over 90 days since we walked into Santiago de Compostela at the end of around 1,000 klms on the road. Readers of this...
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Mar 2, 20242 min read
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20 days
It's 20 days since we returned to Oz. After our chauffeur driven ride home from Perth airport (thank you Chris), we returned to Perth the...
pac
Dec 3, 20234 min read
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Day 55 - Same Same But Different
Santiago de Compostela, Thursday 9th November. I had zero intention of blogging today. I said my virtual farewells yesterday, but then...
pac
Nov 10, 20232 min read
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Day 54 - In Spirit
Wed 8th Nov., Santiago de Compostela Today was the ultimate (penultimate??) rest day. We had nothing planned, other than to simply hang...
pac
Nov 9, 20233 min read
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Day 53 - 2,382,084
Tue 7th Nov., Vedra (Santa Cruz de Ribadulla) to Santiago de Compostela, ~19 klms, 28/30,000 steps The pilgrimage ended in the rain and...
pac
Nov 8, 20235 min read
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Day 52 - "With Wings"
Mon 6th Nov., Silleda to Vedra (Santa Cruz de Ribadulla), ~22klms, 30/31,000 steps When I wrote my first real-time travel blog back in...
pac
Nov 7, 20233 min read
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Day 51 - What if??
Sun 5th Nov., Estacion de Lalin to Silleda, ~15klms, 20/22,000 steps Water, where it's meant to be 😉 ... ... and where it's not meant to...
pac
Nov 6, 20235 min read
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Day 50 - The Camino Provides (or does it?)
Sat 4th Nov., Oseira to Estacion de Lalin. ~15 klms a pie, ~16 klms a coche I risk offending some good folk here - not my intention, and...
pac
Nov 5, 20235 min read
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Day 49 - One day we'll laugh about this, maybe ...
Fri 3rd Nov., Cea to Oseira, 23+klms ... This is not the post I was intending for today. My planned post can wait. Remember my last...
pac
Nov 4, 20233 min read
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Day 48 - The Battle
Thu 2nd Nov., Ourense to Cea, ~23klms, ~27,000 steps Today the Sun God and the Rain God battled above us. As a mere mortal, who am I to...
pac
Nov 3, 20232 min read
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Day 47 - Enigmatic Fiesta
Wed 1st Nov., Ourense Today, I discovered entirely by accident, is a public holiday for All Saints' Day. It's also known by the name All...
pac
Nov 2, 20234 min read
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Day 46 - Reset
Tue 31st Oct., Ourense. Well, we made it to Ourense via an unintended path, but such is the way of life. As our Scottish ancestor Rabbie...
pac
Nov 1, 20232 min read
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Day 44 - Connections (interconnections), Pt II
Sun 29th Oct., España. I wasn't intending to write any more blogs until when we hit Ourense and started walking again, but some have...
pac
Oct 30, 20234 min read
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Day 41 - Decisions
Thu 26th Oct., Lubian back to Puebla de Sanabria, ~30 klms, by taxi The rain pelted down nearly all night, and showed no sign of easing...
pac
Oct 27, 20232 min read
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Day 40 - Handling Disappointment
Wed 25th Oct., Puebla de Sanabria to Lubian, 21 klms on foot, 9 by taxi. This is not the post I had planned as the day started. I had...
pac
Oct 26, 20232 min read
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Day 39 - Paradoxes and Connections , Part I. 18klms
Tue 24th Oct., Entrepeñas to Puebla de Sanabria So much to say ... Let's start with a wolf report. No wolves, but here where we are...
pac
Oct 25, 20232 min read
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Day 38 - Little Things
Mon 23rd Oct., Rionegro del Puente to Entrepeñas. Approx 22 klms. This might sound a bit pretentious (not meant to) or maybe just a bit...
pac
Oct 24, 20235 min read
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Day 37 - Old and (sometimes) new
Sun 22nd Oct., Santa Marta de Tera to Rionegro del Puente, 27klms, ~ 36/38,000 steps Today's theme popped into my head as we wandered...
pac
Oct 23, 20234 min read
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Day 36 - Pythonesque
Sat 21st Oct., Tabara to Santa Marta de Tera After yesterday's grumble we awoke to a message from home that we should "always look on the...
pac
Oct 22, 20235 min read
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