Strap your feet up, ankle bandages and compeeds on. Pack the rucksacks up. It's the last day of walking to Santiago. Today we arrive at...

The penultimate day. 30 days of walking leading to tomorrow and out arrival in Santiago. It's been an emotional journey but when we finish today we will know we will be in sight of that end goal and come what may we will hit it. The weather is meant to be up and down today and it's around the 24km mark so we want to take it steady. No major rush today so we got up and packed back on our usual schedule leaving around 7.30. We walked along steadily and chatted at length about N

These guidebooks and apps are crap! Excuse my French. But these guidebooks and apps are so far off the mark! Every single day we look at...

Well I think I will be looking at puppies when I get home. I miss having a dog in the house and the last few days have really brought...

We have a couple longer days coming up now as we begin to return to the guidebook type distances leading us into Santiago. Portomarin, as...

It's going to get busy folks. Today we pass through the town of Sarria, this is the biggest town on the Camino and marks the start point...

Some places on the Camino have so much potential. Alto de Poio where we stayed last night is one of those places. Right at the top of the...

The grand old Duke of York, he had two weary pilgrims. He marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again. Then he...

For a lot of pilgrims the guidebooks act as a mini Camino Bible. Referenced for places to visit, detours to take, walking profiles and...

Yesterday and again this morning I bumped into Dr. Jeremiah Gibbs. A chap who organises Camino tours but also has a number of YouTube...

Today is an important day in our pilgrimage for we will reach the Cruz de Ferro. Sat high up a hillside the iron cross is a spiritual place of unberdoning. Pilgrims from all over the world carry small stones from home all the way here, to represent the burdens that they carry. Thinking on these as you walk and the worries of your past and future is a big part of the Camino and the reason a lot of people make the journey. Dropping your stone, and the weight from your pack, is

Back on your feet pilgrims. It's walking time! Today we swapped back from the bikes to the walking shoes and hit the road at 7am. No breakfast this morning - we aim to grab something on route. Because the longer days took their toll on the Achilles injury earlier in the trip we have now planned days at around the 20-22km range to keep it manageable. Today we begin the climb to one of the most iconic and spiritual parts of the journey - Cruz de Ferro - but that is tomorrow's s

Relaxed after the Spa (for me at last) and a good sleep in an actual hotel room we were ready to set off on the last days cycle. We are heading out of one big city and towards a smaller one - Astorga. The route is long and dull, and we are glad to be on bikes, the 45km mostly goes along a busy road with lorries trundling by, so we are glad to be blitzing it on bikes and will be getting the pedal down today! The first few km are navigating the streets of Leon through the urban

Not having bunk beds is heaven. We had a private twin room last night and being able to wake up and get organised on your own bed rather than a bunk 5feet in the air is heaven. We are aiming to do more private rooms moving forward, though still in the albergues. It tends to cost around 30-35 euros for two, where the bunks in shared rooms costs 12-15. It is more than worth the few extra euros to not share a room with rude Brazilians or shouty Italians! So we woke up much more

Long days of exercise are best done on a clean and healthy body, well fueled and well rested. So last night we went out for a birthday meal for Holgar and a catch up with Maria and Florian (a Camino romance couple)! This catch up involved Nik and I sharing a monstrous steak and a few bottles of wine (after some beers). It was absolutely delicious and one of the best ways to end a great day (though we almost missed the 10pm curfew that is very strictly adhered too!). So we wok

The days start the same. The snoring slowly stops as the place wakes up somewhere around 6am (the early risers at 5 and the lie inners at around 7!!). Most people pack quickly and leave though I need a morning shower before I set off - especially as lately the hot water is in short supply in the evening!! This morning was much the same, though we had breakfast at the albergue so some cereal, toast and coffee before setting out. It's another longer day on the bikes today throu

We are mixing things up for a few days. Nik has seen some good improvement in his achilles however it is still a twinge so we will move onto bikes for a few days. This means we are still covering the distance, though saves a few days whilst resting the sore parts of our bodies. Our bags were due to be collected at 8 but we had little faith so we left them as instructed in the bedroom, with our day sacks to one side. We had a coffee and returned just after 8. Panic ensued. Our

Today we took a rest day in Burgos. A nice lie in and a few hours organising, doing laundry and planning the next stage of our journey. Tomorrow we pick up bikes for 4 days to cover the long flat 180km from Burgos to Leon. Encyclopedia Rachel organised a Camino family dinner so we shared a great few hours with a group of pilgrims as a mini good bye as we will be moving ahead of them over the coming days. It was a great evening sharing high and low points of the Camino and Tho

Caffienated we set off on a longer day than we have done recently hoping the healing will not be undone. The first 4km was beautiful. A track running through forests with the early morning sunlight filtering down. The weather was warming and made for good walking and we strided through the forest tracks with noone else around (apart from a brief encounter with Adrian, a young french rugby player who was answering nature's call in the trees - needs must and all that). We reach

Today has been an emotional day. We heard the news in waking that my Nan and Niks mother in law had passed after a battle with pancreatic cancer. It was expected and it is good to know she passed in her sleep and is now dancing somewhere with my grandad, however it is still difficult. We are here together and have a walk ahead of us so we will focus on that. I spent time on today's walk thinking of good times with her and my grandad. Playing off ground tag on the beach, crock