I woke up very early this morning (and accidentally (!) also woke up Amy) as I was so excited to get to Santiago square and see the...

Well, yesterday I blogged that today was going to be easy. I turned out to be very wrong. We walked through torrential rain from 7am...

Amy and I arrived to Arzua today after a 29.5km hike. It was the last long hike I will do on the Camino. The last two days are both just...

Last night at Portomarin we had dinner looking over the river and Amy was able to capture the below photo. I was rather impressed as she...

Last night we had a chance to have an incredible dinner with friends at Sarria inside an historic building that only had 3 tables . Over...

Back in Burgos (day 12) I was at a crepperie with Pamela and Reeve where we were talking a lot about how lucky we have been about weather...

Tomorrow, Amy and I will arrive to Sarria which means we will only have 115kms left to Santiago. More than 50% of all pilgrims that do...

This morning Amy and I left the albuerge at 7:30am for the second hardest day of the Camino (after Day 1 crossing the Pyrenees), the big...

…at least as I know it to be. Today, I walked from beautiful Ponferrada to another mountain town Villafranca del Bierzo. Just as I...

Today was one of the most beautiful days of my Camino. Left our albuerge at 6:50am to ensure I can catch the sunrise at the Iron Cross...

Today after a 26.5 km hike with an elavation gain of 2000 ft all packed to the last 5k, I arrived to Foncebadón. It is a mountain village...

Let me start with some bragging. Tonight I will be staying at a hotel (not albuerge!) which Napoleon stayed during his invasion of Spain...

Last two nights in Leon have been bitter sweet for me. On one side the cohort of April 1st got together one last time and seeing friendly...

Today, I am resting in beautiful Leon. Done laundry, toured the city, some news socks shopping and a lot of icing of knees and shins....

After, leaving Saint Jean Pied de Port on April 1st and 506kms later, I arrived to Leon around 1:30pm today. As written in many books,...

This morning I woke up and in my mental countdown to Amy’s return checked the box for (-7) days. That’s equates to 1 layer per day for...

Last night, after a glorious laundry process at the local laundromat, I had a chance to go to the main church (13th century) of Shagun...

The Camino continues to change my perspective about the inhabitants of this world. On The Way you experience pure kindness and good over...

There are many types of people who walk the Camino from all around the world. Many Europeans of course, mostly from Spain, France, UK and...

A lot of people have been asking me about the places you stay on the Camino and how a germophobe like me deal with that situation. I...