After missing three years of long walks due to COVID, we are going back to the beginning. This is the first time we are repeating a Camino while we walk from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago. If all goes well, so will we – all the way to the sea.

Our Camino route
Use this link to see our intended route on a zoomable map

Before the walk
Here we go again
Before the beginning
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We made it! At least to where we are starting our walk

Day to day on the walk
Day 1 – A short simple walk up a hill
Day 2 – Damn the wind and rain – just get over that mountain
Day 3 – An eventful day… too eventful
Day 4 – A berry good day for walking until the sun came out
Day 5 – The Camino is timeless
Day 6 – A day of transition and surprises
Day 7 – Pas après moi, EN MAINTENANT le déluge!
Day 8 – Perfect weather for knee trembling hills
Day 9 – Put your head down and keep going
Day 10 – A light day for a bright sun, con gas
Day 11 – Dreams are great but make them memories
Day 12 – George’s birthday, a fantastic walk and bad news
Day 13 – A little good, a little bad, mix it together, get a Camino
Day 13.5 – A time to kill, a time to heal
Day 14 – If only we walked with our minds
Day 15 – A good sleep leads to a great day
Day 16 – A near perfect day for a walk
Day 17 – A short day, a light pack and a diaper
Day 18 – Flat and arrow straight on the Meseta
Day 19 – Rain cometh & rain goeth. Joy, joy, joy!
Day 20 – Walking a beeline towards León
Day 21 – it’s “help a stranger” Sunday
Day 22 – Walking out of León, eventually
Day 23 – And this little piggy cried “wee, wee, wee” all the way home
Day 24 – In better mood and health, thanks to vitamins P & I
Day 25 – A wet, tough day. But now we are dry and tender.
Day 26 – Recovery, discovery, rain jokes and plain Cokes
Day 27 – Melanie’s hidden talents
Day 28 – Serenaded by the wind into Galicia
Day 29 – The final peaceful walk?
Day 30 – Back among the masses in the foggy, foggy dew
Day 31 – A good day on the trail, an awful day in Baltimore
Day 32 – Rolling through the rolling hills of Galicia
Day 33 – A slog is not what the Inuits call their sleigh dogs
Day 34 – A crazy ending and great reunions