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Camino de Santiago Ruta de La Lana GPX files, maps, places to sleep.

Camino de Santiago Ruta de La Lana GPX files, maps, places to sleep. Updated: 29.10.2013 This page will be updated regularly until all info about albergues etc. is included. Please inform me of any errors or omissions alicante to cuenca … Continue reading

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Via de La Plata: Crossing Badajoz to Fuente de Cantos

Learning about the Camino [mapsmarker layer=”1″]     When I left Monesterio with my blister popped by the patient nurse, I soon lost my way. Probably I was distracted by having to put my opened blister in the water when … Continue reading

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Voice recordings from Ruta de La Lana for blog subscribers.

These files are for subscribers only.  When I made them I didn’t ever intend to make them public.  They were simply to jog my memory. I now hope they will add flesh to some of the text.     meeting … Continue reading

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My doubts are eased by meeting a fellow pilgrim. The dead walk with us. Ruta de La Lana Day 3 cont.

A meeting in the Saline valley. I sat down to tend an emerging blister.  I had no strength in my muscles and doubted my capacity to walk for many more days.  It was 8am and I was wilting. I became … Continue reading

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First doubts. Ruta de La Lana GPS Tracks Day 3

First doubts. Novelda to Sax  23.5km  [mapsmarker marker=”6″]   Novelda Arriving on the outskirts of Novelda, I was approached by a man who asked if I was on the Camino.  This is not so obvious as it might seem:  I … Continue reading

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Camino Francés, Cruz de Hierro, Rabanal del Camino, Foncebadón, Manjarín

When the symbolic does its job and helps us to change.   I begin this first post on the Camino Francés with the stage which passes by the Iron Cross, El Cruz de Heirro.  It is a part of the … Continue reading

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Iona Community Prayers on the Camino de Santiago 1.

 Prayers can be surprisingly sensual and very joyful.   In the summer after finishing the Via de La Plata, I spent a week in the Abbey on the Scottish island of Iona where visitors make up the community for the … Continue reading

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Ruta de La Lana GPS tracks: Day 2

From Motorway E15 to Novelda [mapsmarker marker=”5″] This is my own GPS track.  The squiggly bits at the start are due to the erratic way in which my awful GPS (Garmin e-trex) finds the signal. A beautiful morning to wake … Continue reading

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Ruta de La Lana GPS data Day 1

Overview  Alicante to Atienza [mapsmarker marker=”3″]   This is a track I downloaded from Wikiloc to help me.  It is probably drawn by hand.  What follows is my own tracks, including all the twists and turns of visiting an occasional … Continue reading

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Via de La Plata – into Extremadura

Five nights after leaving Seville, I was still adjusting to walking a Camino.  On my second day, after sleeping in a field, I dawdled and even took a long siesta, arriving at my first ever albergue at 9 pm, in … Continue reading

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