Camino Confidential

Next on my agenda today: the Wine Interpretation Centre: a thoroughly modern exposition of the importance of wine in this area. It is built ...

For dinner last (a very hot night), I walked down to La Fabrica, the no.2 restaurant on Trip Advisor. No-one spoke English so I took a while...

So I am now the Michael Portillo of Galicia! (Why doesn’t he make some more Spanish railway programmes, since he is half Spanish?) I travell...

 Can’t escape those bloody elections!

I left Astorga at 9.00 am. Luckily the bus was a bit late. Dina gave me a lift back into town from Santa Catalina. I can’t begin to describe...

I’m staying another day here in Santa Catalina. My knee has been playing up and I need to rest it. Tomorrow, my plan is to take the bus to P...

For dinner last night I went to Hotel Gaudi (where I stayed last time I was in Astorga) and ordered salad and lamb chops. The Spanish do bab...