Year: 2024
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From Castilla y León to Galicia, and the last 100km
Since my post from Foncebadón, we’ve done a lot of walking, and have finally crossed from the Castilla y León region into Galicia. You might think that neighbouring regions of Spain would be similar… but in terms of the trail, the difference was immediately obvious. Gone were the often graffitied metal way markers, replaced with…
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Decaying Dwellings
Walking through many towns along the Way has revealed so many properties for sale – many of them in various stages of disrepair and collapse. I just love the stone walls and use of wooden beams in these old buildings. Sadly so many are destined to fall apart and return to a pile of rocks…
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Galician flora
The past few days have seen very few new flora on the Way. Having entered Galicia we are seeing less fields of grain and instead more cows (and when you can’t see them you can certainly smell them). The Oakmoss has actually been present for ages but I only really noticed it a couple days…
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Elías Valiña Sampedro
Today we officially walked across the border from Castilla y León into Galicia and arrived in O Cebreiro. For many pilgrims on the Camino this is a favoured starting point (and indeed it seemed there were many fresh faces wandering around this small town looking to escape the wet weather). I was particularly interested in…
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Post-meseta flora
So many familiar flowers along the Way of late… but also loads of new ones – some completely unexpected. Some Nerium oleander – all three colours! Finally some more edible flora… We haven’t seen the grain fields we saw all along the meseta for a while now. Lots of sweet chestnut trees though! Note the…