Category Archives: The Camino de Santiago

Camino de Santiago, Ruta de La Lana with GPS data, Camino de Levante, Via de La Plata. Pilgrimage

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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Via de La Plata – First Steps

On St. Patrick’s Day, 17th March 2010, I set out on my first Camino to Santiago by the Via de La Plata.  I collected my Credentials, the essential document for the pilgrim, from the Backpacker’s Hostal in Tirana, Seville and … Continue reading

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Prayer

On the Via de La Plata, my first Camino, I learned a lot about prayer and in this blog I will return to the theme of prayer often.  I left Seville just before Holy Week when the preparations for this solemn … Continue reading

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Miracles

Pilgrimage  –  Miracles for all.   As a child, Christmas was pantomime time and at Peter Pan I remember saving Tinkerbelle’s life by clapping frantically as an act of my faith in fairies.  About 40 years on I no longer … Continue reading

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The Caminos to Santiago de Compostella. The Camino as Pilgrimage.

The Caminos to Santiago de Compostella Here you will find information, maps, GPS routes for the Ruta de la Lana, albergues which are open on some of the long Caminos de Santiago in Spain.  My intention is to tell a … Continue reading

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