Connectivity issues prevented us from posting Tuesday’s recap…so today we will be providing posts for both Days 14 (April 24) and Day 15 (April 25)…a “Twofer Wednesday”. Upon leaving Burgos today…we were scheduled to enter the Meseta…Spain’s high plateau desert….during the afternoon of our 30KM/18 mile walk. We had been forewarned that these next 7-8 …
Today we arrived in Burgos, the capital of the province of Burgos, in the autonomous region of Castille and Leon. The change in venue from morning until afternoon was drastic. We began the day in a small burg (San Juan de Ortega) of 20 people and finished the afternoon walking into a city with a …
Site administrator note – WiFi coverage was insufficient in the village of San Juan de Ortega to load photo files. The attached post is text only. This post for Sunday, April 22, will be updated with photos Monday evening, April 23rd. We hope to be better looking tomorrow. It was a rather challenging day …
Even though the guidebook described it as a “tranquil walk” today, Sarah held us to a torrid pace today and we completed our 24K/15 mile hike by 2pm….our earliest finishing time to date. When we checked into our room at the “casa rural”, I was expecting I might get criticized for not keeping up, but …
Today was a relatively short day for us – a gradual uphill all day, but only 24 kilometers or 15 miles. The weather continues to be perfect – sunny, temperatures in the high 60s, and a cool breeze at our backs pushing us along through postcard-worthy fields and vineyards. So it was a relatively easy …
The theme for our post today is wine…as today’s 30Km/18 mile walk was fully in the beautiful wine-making country of the Rioja region. On all sides of us we were surrounded by fields with vines waiting to bloom and we passed a few “bodegas”, large wine warehouses. (Not to be confused with a New York …
We completed the first 100 miles of our 500-mile expedition today. Just going to let that sentence sink in for awhile….for Sarah and me. Ok…we’re good. We left Arcos early this morning as we had a 29Km / 18 mile walk in front of us…our final day in the Navarra region before moving into the …