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Sep 247 min read
Country roads ...
Le Puy, France, 22 September 2024 No, not John Denver ... The realist in me understands the need for toll roads, but the idealist objects...
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pac
Sep 203 min read
All the light we [almost did not] see...
Saint Malo, France, 17 September 2024, and beyond “ Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships,...
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pac
Jun 23 min read
T minus 100
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...
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pac
Nov 10, 20232 min read
Day 55 - Same Same But Different
Santiago de Compostela, Thursday 9th November. I had zero intention of blogging today. I said my virtual farewells yesterday, but then...
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pac
Nov 9, 20233 min read
Day 54 - In Spirit
Wed 8th Nov., Santiago de Compostela Today was the ultimate (penultimate??) rest day. We had nothing planned, other than to simply hang...
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pac
Nov 8, 20235 min read
Day 53 - 2,382,084
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...
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pac
Nov 8, 20231 min read
Day 53 - 2,382,084 (Part II)
Tue 7th Nov., Vedra (Santa Cruz de Ribadulla) to Santiago de Compostela, ~19 klms, 28/30,000 steps ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !...
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pac
Nov 7, 20233 min read
Day 52 - "With Wings"
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...
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pac
Nov 6, 20235 min read
Day 51 - What if??
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...
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pac
Nov 5, 20235 min read
Day 50 - The Camino Provides (or does it?)
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...
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pac
Nov 4, 20233 min read
Day 49 - One day we'll laugh about this, maybe ...
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...
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pac
Nov 3, 20232 min read
Day 48 - The Battle
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...
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pac
Nov 2, 20234 min read
Day 47 - Enigmatic Fiesta
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...
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pac
Nov 1, 20232 min read
Day 46 - Reset
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...
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pac
Oct 30, 20234 min read
Day 44 - Connections (interconnections), Pt II
Sun 29th Oct., España. I wasn't intending to write any more blogs until when we hit Ourense and started walking again, but some have...
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