Setting off early again today hoping to get to Zumia near Bilbao in good time , so that Sarah, who is coming over from Brighton today to walk with me for the next week, won’t have to wait too long. The weather leaving Guernika was suitably gray and wet, for Read more…
This is a slightly longer blog post because 19th turned out to be a very long walk which was followed by more than one glass of wine and compulsory lights out at 10:00 PM in the dormitory of the Albergue – none which really lent itself to writing a blog Read more…
Today was another lovely day of walking (24.5 km), with some very big climbs, but rewarding views. I started the day early, at 6 AM, because Marissa, Carmen and Emma (the three women from La Gomera with whom I walked yesterday), invited me to join them for breakfast in the Read more…
Sleeping in a hostel turns out to be fine if you are tired enough, even though the one I stayed in was more surfers and party goers than hikers, which meant I had to creep out at 7 am because everyone was still asleep, and no breakfast to be had Read more…
A slightly odd start today, taking the bus from Bilbao to San Sebastián, to spend the next week walking back to Bilbao, but that’s just the way flights worked out. Arrived after a pleasant bus ride, and then hoisted on my back-pack for the first time and made my way Read more…
In 2019 Marcus Pepperell walked the Camino del Norte. Not knowing what it was all about I decided to join him for a week -walking from Gijon to Luarca – and I was bitten by the bug. Since then I had the vague idea of doing the walk myself. You Read more…