Monthly Archives: June 2025

Our stay at the Parador was wonderful, great beds, huge room, excellent breakfast. The only downside was that we didn’t get started until nearly 9am and we had a full day ahead of us. As often is the case the … Continue reading →

Our Albergue was noisy early on in the night and eventually quieted down. Again breakfast was at 8am, a little late for pilgrims but we knew we had to catch a 2 minute train ride to get across the river … Continue reading →

The advantages of staying in a nice hotel is that you get a bigger comfortable bed and have the buffet breakfast to start the day, it also means you might start a little later. Just as we came down for … Continue reading →

We opted for an earlier start as breakfast was at 9am and it promised to be a warm day. We stopped for a quick coffee and Pinxos on the way out of town.  All the walking today was through Cantabrian … Continue reading →

Today was a sunny day, the wet weather has moved on for now.  We did not have a long walk today and it was mostly flat and through country roads so traffic, apart from the odd massive tractor, was light. … Continue reading →

Hopefully today there would be no rain, and it was clear until just at the end of the day. We had breakfast with a trio of Canadians taking a week to walk a section of the Camino. We must be … Continue reading →

Another grey, drizzly day but not too cold. We continued on slowly. The initial walk out of Castro Urdiales is relatively flat but we started to go uphill as always and into forested areas. After walking past on old bull … Continue reading →

An enforced rest day today. The rain combined with Janice having a sore foot prevented us from walking today. The rain may have set in for a few days and we will take it a day at a time. We … Continue reading →

Drizzle on and off all day, just enough to be annoying but not enough to call rain. We walked out of Bilbao through residential areas, into industrial areas alongside the river. Not a pretty day. Not a hard day either, … Continue reading →