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Camino de Santiago Round-Up: Best Advice and Resources
If you’re reading this on August 11th, chances are that I’m basking in the sun that’s peeking in and out of the clouds in Santiago. I’m likely hot, caked with dirt and nursing blisters on my sore feet....
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Seville Snapshots: Waymarkers on the Camino de Santiago
My flashlight bounces off the ground, searching fanatically for a spray painted yellow arrow on anything – a rock, a tree trunk, an abadoned church. It isn’t even 6am yet, and the rain drives down...
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Roots&Boots: Santiago de Compostela’s Pilgrim Hostel
The elation of arriving to Santiago de Compostela after 200 miles and 14 nights alternating between pilgrims inns and pensiones was only met with the elation that we’d have a place to rest our heads....
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Spain Snapshots: Playa de las Catedrales, Galicia
After my disappointing jaunt to the ‘Most Beautiful Village in Spain,’ I had even higher expectations for the ‘Most Beautiful Beach in Spain,’ Playa As Catedrais. Arriving to Ribadeo, the first town in...
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What Walking the Camino de Santiago Taught Me About Life
‘El Camino no regala nada.’ I was trailing Iván, using his walking stick as a third leg as we trudged up a muddy incline somewhere between Santa Marina and Ballotas. I had joked around that my first...
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Two Weeks on the Camino de Santiago: 14 Pictures of my Journey (Part 1)
The Camino is full of little moments – a beautiful medieval bridge, a small roadside shrine, a memorable meal shared with other pilgrims. In the 14 days it took us to walk from Avilés to Santiago de...
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I get it – you’re sick of my Camino posts, but there are so many stories from the road to tell. You’ve had one round of my Camino photos, but when I hit the save button, I didn’t feel like the journey...
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Two Weeks on the Camino de Santiago: 14 Pictures of my Journey (Part 2)
Where we last left off, I had literally just climbed a mountain, but I had also scaled a mountain of self-doubt that told me my body was not strong enough to continue. We were halfway there,...
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Spain Snapshots: The Medieval City of Mondoñedo along the Camino de Santiago...
Leaving Lourenzá at just past 7am, we’d have a two hour hike before reaching Mondoñedo, where we’d agreed to meet Iván, Claude and Sandrine for breakfast. While we’d stop and feed our bodies whenever...
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Autonomous Community Spotlight: The Principality of Asturias
Not one to make travel goals, I did make one when coming to Spain: travel to all 17 autonomous communities at least once before going home. While Madrid, Barcelona and Seville are the stars of the...
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