Year: 2024
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Kings of León, the Moody Blues, and AC/DC
What do the above have in common? Jeff, as it turns out 😄. The Moody Blues On arrival at our accommodation in Villafranca Montes de Oca (day 14), we bumped into Kerri, a lovely Swiss lady we’d first met way back on the trek to Zubiri (day 2), and at a few other points along…
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An ode, some woad, a Roman road
What’s the good of wearing braces? An interesting question, and one this post most definitely won’t answer 😜. Along much of the Roman road we recently walked – a subject covered by Jeff in his recent post – woad plants were present. I find the irony of this quite amusing – something stemming squarely from my…
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The Calzada Romana Route
We chose to walk the Calzada Romana route from Calzadilla de los Hermanillos to Mansilla de las Mulas. A route not so often walked. John Brierley wrote about this stage… On the Calzada Romana we will encounter no asphalt roads, no sendas, no town, no farmyard, no house but also no water fonts and little…
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Meseta Flora
The Meseta is over 200km. That’s a lot of plants to walk past and try to identify! I’ve included all the ones that I hadn’t already seen to date. My main criteria is that it has to either look nice, smell nice or be edible. Several are familiar in name – but it’s exciting to…
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We’re going to Sahagún, we’re going to Sahagún…
Sahagún is generally considered to be the halfway point along the Camino, and that’s about right. Ultimately, it depends on whether you’re travelling past Santiago de Compostella and on to Fisterra / Finisterre or not (we hope to, but will see how our feet feel once in SdC). It’s also more definitely on the León…
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The Meseta March
The meseta refers to the long stretch of plains between Burgos and Leon (about 180km in total – more than 8 days of walking). The weather can be changeable (although for us it has remained windy and stonkingly hot), the scenery is monotonous (fields of wheat, barley, lucerne and clods of earth) and the way…