Spain

Time Apart
August 28, 2008 - Llanes, Spain
In one of those exquisitely timed meetings that happen so often on the Camino and which would appear as over-slick editing in a film or novel, when I went to the counter to pay for my time on the internet last night, Paul tapped me on the shoulder. Paul, you may remember, was the middle-aged Englishman living in Mexico whom I met at Fr...
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Plus ca change, plus c´est la meme chose...
August 27, 2008 - Llanes, Spain
And what I mean by today´s title is that I´m realising how easy it would be to begin every single entry with the words ¨This is SO hard!¨ I have now walked more than half-way and have realised that every step of that more than four hundred kilometres has been in pain - always physical and very often mental and emotional too. I was very...
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One Day at a Time
August 25, 2008 - Comillas, Spain
Again, this has to be a super-quick entry unfortunately - the only access I could get was in the local library with a twenty minute limit - most of which is spent working out the Spanish instructions! The last few days have been amongst the most difficult (walks of almost 40 kilometres) and also the most rewarding (staying in two of the best...
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Madrid
June 30, 2008 - Madrid, Spain
Ya llevamos casi una semana por estos lares calurosos y soleados, lo cual es un cambio bastante agradable comparado con la llovizna asquerosa y las temperaturas sobradamente otoñales que tuvimos en Seattle justo antes de nuestra salida... Nos viene bien vernos las caras con el calorazo, a ver si así nos pilla menos desprevenidos cuando...
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Madrid
June 30, 2008 - Madrid, Spain
Ça fait maintenant presque deux semaines que nous sommes de retour au bercail, sous un soleil de plomb et une chaleur de bête...tout un changement après la pluie et le frais de Seattle. Ça fait du bien de se prendre un peu de chaleur dans la tronche, surtout si on veut y être plus ou moins habitués pour quand on arrivera en Asie...La...
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