Category: Travellers Tales

Well, we didn’t go to O’Pedrozou after all. We hatched a plan to walk all the way to Monte de Gozo, which only left us a five kilometre walk into the city and plenty...

I’m chilled and the 30 kms of walking in the rain (again) has left me very tired. I walked through plantations of eucalypts today and was homesick for wild trees after days of walking...

Today was wet, dark and gloomy, and as always, it affected my mood, but all the serious walkers stopped at a cafe at the 11 km mark, joined by a bus load of Japanese...

It has been the most glorious day so far on the pilgrim trail and every peregrino I have spoken to tonight has said the same thing. The sheer beauty of the countryside under a...

This is an interim update which I may extend on later, but I have a few minutes in the afternoon to just recount the events of the day so far. Eventful it has not...

It is miserable outside. The autumn rains of Galicia have arrived with a vengeance and it’s blowing a gale. If seems appropriate, at the end of a cold and damp day, with the weather...

53 by E. E. Cummings may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them...

53 by E. E. Cummings may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them...

Song of the Open Road BY WALT WHITMAN 1 Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose....