All Captured ~ July 3, 2016

  • Sunday, July 3, 2016
  • Day 64, (Day 3 Cotswolds)
  • Charlton Kings
  • Distance: 12 1/2 miles (32 total miles)
  • Ascent 1,779 feet and descent 1,829 feet
  • Time: 7 1/2 hours
  • Weather: 60-75 degrees blue skies with white clouds

Winchcombe, like all villages, is surrounded by country side. From our perch we watch a lady preform dressage on a handsome black horse. Sheep, horse, cricket field, homes, and church all captured in one photo.

  1. Leaving Winchcombe
  2. Leaving Winchcombe
  3. Toward Charlton Kings

Organic and Natural ~ June 14, 2016 

  • Tuesday, June 14, 2017
  • Day 44 (Day 41 Camino)
  • Puenta la Reigna
  • Distance: 20 1/2 miles (49% tarmac) 623 total miles
  • Ascent 1,997 feet and descent 2,585 feet
  • Time: 9 1/2 hours
  • Weather: 60-72 degrees, overcast, drizzle, blue sky with clouds. STARTED DAY IN SMARTWOOL CAP AND GLOVES.

Organic and natural.

  1. Towards Puenta la Reigna
  2. Towards Puenta la Reigna
  3. Towards Puenta la Reigna

Dancers and Pilgrims ~ June 12, 2016

  • Sunday, June 12, 2016
  • Day 43 (Day 40 Camino)
  • Sangüesa
  • Distance: 14 miles (5% tarmac) 581 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,595 feet and descent 1,897 feet
  • Time: 6 hours
  • Weather: 65-72 degrees, blue skies the clouds

I walk in the good company of a French woman, Sophie. She says, “Pilgrims must prepare their feet each morning like dancers.” How true as I continue to wrap my feet in athletic tape.

Sangüesa is filled with music. A dozen people sat at an outdoor café singing in perfect harmony to the guitar melody.

  1. Toward Sangüesa
  2. Toward Sangüesa
  3. Toward Sangüesa

Winners and Loosers ~ June 12, 2016

  • Sunday, June 12, 2016
  • Day 43 (Day 40 Camino)
  • Sangüesa
  • Distance: 14 miles (5% tarmac) 581 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,595 feet and descent 1,897 feet
  • Time: 6 hours
  • Weather: 65-72 degrees, blue skies the clouds

As with any man-made reservoir, some towns profited while other towns were destroyed by its recent creation.

  1. Toward Sangüesa
  2. Toward Sangüesa
  3. Toward Sangüesa

Cotton Sheets ~ June 4, 2016

  • Saturday, June 4, 2016
  • Day 35, Day 32 (Camino)
  • Estialescq
  • Distance: 14 1/2 miles (10% tarmac) 465 total miles
  • Ascent 2,007 feet and descent 1,685 feet
  • Time: 7 1:2 hours
  • Weather: 65-78 degrees, overcast

Even this pilgrim needs pressed cotton sheets and a home cooked dinner every so often.

  1. Estialescq – Chambre d’hôtes Maison Naba
  2. Estialescq – Chambre d’hôtes Maison Naba
  3. Estialescq – Chambre d’hôtes Maison Naba

A First ~ May 25, 2016

  • Wednesday, May 25, 2016
  • Day 25 (Day 22 Camino)
  • Lèguedoc
  • Distance: 14 1/2 miles (80% tarmac) 315 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 840 feet and descent 674 feet
  • Time: 7 hours
  • Weather: 50-75 degrees, blue skies with clouds

Today is the first day I have walked totally alone. Exiting the metropolis of Toulouse was an added challenge to the walk. No wrong turns on an inconsistently marked Way.  Super!

Two French locals unsolicited offered to give me a ride to the next towns…how kind.

  1. Towards Lèguedoc – Windmill
  2. Towards Lèguedoc – At last off the Canal du Mini and out of urban Toulouse
  3. Towards Lèguedoc – flowering tree.