Right it took me a while but I have put up some photos of the trip for your viewing pleasure.
people photos
http://s305.photobucket.com/albums/nn216/julianbenson/Camino%20de%20Santiago%20de%20Compostela/People/
pick o' the bunch
http://s305.photobucket.com/albums/nn216/julianbenson/Camino%20de%20Santiago%20de%20Compostela/pick%20of%20the%20bunch/
Jules
Thursday, 27 November 2008
Saturday, 15 November 2008
All good things (and painful things) must come to an end
WOOOLOO!
We´ve made it to Santiago! All in one piece.
It feels very weird to be sitting in an internet cafe chillin all morning rather than thinking´how many km have we covered? Is this a good pace? When can we stop for hot chocolate?´
Actually, I am thinking about hot chocolate. And I suspect Julian is too. But now we have all the time in the world for it.
We will be meeting my dad this evening and exploring the city and surrounds from the comfort of a rented car. Bliss.
We´ve been to the cathedral, a little disappointing, but I don´t think anything but an apparition of the Virgin herself could have lived up to our effort to get there. It was also a bit weird when we discovered on arrival that the central refuge is closed, so we have to stay 5km out of town. Because of this, we may not see and congratulate some of the friends we made along the way which is sad. Why don´t they provide for pilgrims? This is Santiago! It´s like once you get here, they don´t care about you anymore.
But it´s not all bad. It´s a nice, cheap refuge and we can stay multiple nights. Last night we got our first motorised transport since 14th October- the bus out of town to the refuge. It was moving so fast! I felt a little ill.
Anyway, the cafes and cake shops of Santiago are laid out before us, and we have a lot of calories to regain.
So, until we see you all again in wonderful, rainy England.
Amy x
p.s. to all you doubting types who may not have sponsored us cos you didn´t think we´d make it, now you can! We´re getting close to our target, go on, help us out! That website again is www.justgiving.com/iwillwalk or we´ll come get the money off you with sticks when we get back
We´ve made it to Santiago! All in one piece.
It feels very weird to be sitting in an internet cafe chillin all morning rather than thinking´how many km have we covered? Is this a good pace? When can we stop for hot chocolate?´
Actually, I am thinking about hot chocolate. And I suspect Julian is too. But now we have all the time in the world for it.
We will be meeting my dad this evening and exploring the city and surrounds from the comfort of a rented car. Bliss.
We´ve been to the cathedral, a little disappointing, but I don´t think anything but an apparition of the Virgin herself could have lived up to our effort to get there. It was also a bit weird when we discovered on arrival that the central refuge is closed, so we have to stay 5km out of town. Because of this, we may not see and congratulate some of the friends we made along the way which is sad. Why don´t they provide for pilgrims? This is Santiago! It´s like once you get here, they don´t care about you anymore.
But it´s not all bad. It´s a nice, cheap refuge and we can stay multiple nights. Last night we got our first motorised transport since 14th October- the bus out of town to the refuge. It was moving so fast! I felt a little ill.
Anyway, the cafes and cake shops of Santiago are laid out before us, and we have a lot of calories to regain.
So, until we see you all again in wonderful, rainy England.
Amy x
p.s. to all you doubting types who may not have sponsored us cos you didn´t think we´d make it, now you can! We´re getting close to our target, go on, help us out! That website again is www.justgiving.com/iwillwalk or we´ll come get the money off you with sticks when we get back
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
This is Julian
quick update:
We´re alive
Expansion of the above update:
We´re alive in Leon
Further expansion of the expanded update:
We´re alive in Leon and celebrating the entrance of the last 300km. We´ve now left the Meseta which is one of the toughest parts of the trip due to it´s length and flatness. When people talk of the psychological aspect of the walk what they really mean is you get bored of whistling the Adam´s Family Theme tune 14 times an hour and realise your friendships is hollow and empty.
An elaborate look at the further expansion of the expanded update:
We´ve had a few slow days due to injury (not me before any of you begin to worry!) but are now back on track. The blog has been slow to update because internet has been scrace (that´s a lie, free internet has been scarce would be more accurate). Since our last update we have passed through Burgos a pretty major city and should be easy to find on a map of Spain. Walked through 4 degree climates, snow, rain (which coincedentally does fall mainly in the plains) and are headed towards more mountains. This time the moountains are in snow and we have to sleep up there, there is also no heating.
I ahve one minute of internet left so I´ll say this. We´ve
quick update:
We´re alive
Expansion of the above update:
We´re alive in Leon
Further expansion of the expanded update:
We´re alive in Leon and celebrating the entrance of the last 300km. We´ve now left the Meseta which is one of the toughest parts of the trip due to it´s length and flatness. When people talk of the psychological aspect of the walk what they really mean is you get bored of whistling the Adam´s Family Theme tune 14 times an hour and realise your friendships is hollow and empty.
An elaborate look at the further expansion of the expanded update:
We´ve had a few slow days due to injury (not me before any of you begin to worry!) but are now back on track. The blog has been slow to update because internet has been scrace (that´s a lie, free internet has been scarce would be more accurate). Since our last update we have passed through Burgos a pretty major city and should be easy to find on a map of Spain. Walked through 4 degree climates, snow, rain (which coincedentally does fall mainly in the plains) and are headed towards more mountains. This time the moountains are in snow and we have to sleep up there, there is also no heating.
I ahve one minute of internet left so I´ll say this. We´ve
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