Day 2 - Thursday, 26 September 2024 - Montbonnet to Saugues. Officially 26.1 klms (likely a tad more). No, that heading is not a nod to...

Day 1 - Wednesday, 25 September 2024 - Le Puy-en-Velay to Montbonnet, 16.7 klms Those who know me well know that I have periodically...

Le Puy, France, 22 September 2024 No, not John Denver ... The realist in me understands the need for toll roads, but the idealist objects...

Saint Malo, France, 17 September 2024, and beyond “ Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships,...

England, UK, Sunday 15 September 2024 Those who know me a little better than others know that yesterday was my 72nd birthday. By the...

Sunday 2nd June 2024 Today it's exactly 100 days until we board QF72 to Singapore and then on to Europe for the start of our next big...

This will most likely be my last Via de la Plata blog post. New adventures call, and later this year I’ll walk the 750 klm Via...

It's now a little over 90 days since we walked into Santiago de Compostela at the end of around 1,000 klms on the road. Readers of this...

It's 20 days since we returned to Oz. After our chauffeur driven ride home from Perth airport (thank you Chris), we returned to Perth the...

Santiago de Compostela, Thursday 9th November. I had zero intention of blogging today. I said my virtual farewells yesterday, but then...

Wed 8th Nov., Santiago de Compostela Today was the ultimate (penultimate??) rest day. We had nothing planned, other than to simply hang...

Tue 7th Nov., Vedra (Santa Cruz de Ribadulla) to Santiago de Compostela, ~19 klms, 28/30,000 steps The pilgrimage ended in the rain and...

Tue 7th Nov., Vedra (Santa Cruz de Ribadulla) to Santiago de Compostela, ~19 klms, 28/30,000 steps ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !...

Mon 6th Nov., Silleda to Vedra (Santa Cruz de Ribadulla), ~22klms, 30/31,000 steps When I wrote my first real-time travel blog back in...

Sun 5th Nov., Estacion de Lalin to Silleda, ~15klms, 20/22,000 steps Water, where it's meant to be 😉 ... ... and where it's not meant to...

Sat 4th Nov., Oseira to Estacion de Lalin. ~15 klms a pie, ~16 klms a coche I risk offending some good folk here - not my intention, and...

Fri 3rd Nov., Cea to Oseira, 23+klms ... This is not the post I was intending for today. My planned post can wait. Remember my last...

Thu 2nd Nov., Ourense to Cea, ~23klms, ~27,000 steps Today the Sun God and the Rain God battled above us. As a mere mortal, who am I to...

Wed 1st Nov., Ourense Today, I discovered entirely by accident, is a public holiday for All Saints' Day. It's also known by the name All...

Tue 31st Oct., Ourense. Well, we made it to Ourense via an unintended path, but such is the way of life. As our Scottish ancestor Rabbie...