Camino Confidential

Still as cold as Christmas!. When I left the hotel at 9.15 it was 7 degrees and when I returned at 1.30 p.m. it had only risen to 10 degree...

An absolutely freezing day! You would not know you were in Spain! I was determined to walk to Burgos, as this was the only way to keep war...

Next morning the receptionist tried but failed to rouse on the telephone the hotel in San Juan de Ortega where I really wanted to spend the ...

I reached Belorado by about 10 a.m. and had a lovely second breakfast in the sunny square: a big coffee, Danish pastry and freshly squeezed...

Pilgrim monument outside the Parador Bernardo de Fresneda Bridge going out of Sto. Domingo I didn’t leave town till 8.30 a.m., as...

Santo Domingo festival procession My bed in the Parador I decided to stay an extra night in Santo Domingo and use the Sunda...

Only 571 Kms to go! Another extremely cold day. Could this really be Spain in the middle of May? After one and a half hours, I arr...

Monastery of Santa Maria de la Real in Najera A very cold day. I noticed it had only reached 14 ° on entering Najera at lunchtime. ...

Inside the ruins of San Pedro, Viana I was up early for a quick breakfast in the hotel dining room, including a fried egg and ...

Leaving Los Arcos at the crack of dawn I am now installed in the Palacio de Pujadas , a haven of luxury “at the top end of the mar...