Yearly archives: 2021

We carried on walking along the rice fields, but luckily with an overcast sky. It was hot with a high humidity level, but at least the sun wasn’t persistent over us. Italy was entering a heatwave with a constant warning to avoid the hottest hours of the day. So we […]

The day after the Great S. Bernard night spent at the hospice, we crossed into Italy. The border was just few hundred meter down the road. After the long and tough ascent of the Grand S. Bernard of the day before, an even tougher day was waiting behind the corner; […]

When we left the hotel in Lausanne, a young man, seeing the shell attached to my rucksack, a typical symbol of the Camino of Santiago, approached us. He asked us if we were walking to Santiago de Compostela, and after a nice chat explaining the project, he invited us to […]

For a few days after leaving Nancy and Jason, we kept walking under constant rain. Finally, we reached the town of Langres completely soaked. The following day we walked under similar conditions. Luckily for us, when we reached our destination in Unienville, another wonderful and restoring fire was waiting for […]

We have been walking in the rain for the past few days. At the moment, it feels more like winter than summer. On a few occasions, on our arrival at the accommodation, we found the wood-burning stove and chimney switched on to keep us warm and allow our shoes and […]

I cannot believe that another week has gone by since my last post. Time flies, and simultaneously, it seems like I have been walking for years. “Yesterday” and “today” are merged. There is a constant push and pull of the timeline; events that happened weeks ago belong to my most […]

It is becoming incrementally difficult to keep up with the blog. We have been walking on average 30 k a day. Thursday, we hit the 500 k mark, a bit behind schedule, but we should reach Stra in time if we maintain this rhythm. We finally met other walkers, a […]

The past 4 days have been a bit intense; we walked a total of 130 kilometres. We have been blessed with fresh air and a bit of rain. The route is enjoyable except for one day where we followed the wrong direction, and we ended up walking for many kilometres […]

Day 15 21/06/21 Today we left the red house (La tribu des Butin) in Zudausques. Last night we were fortunate. This lovely family were not advertising the renting of the room anywhere; a local man saw us and mention that Messier Butin, in the past, used to rent a room […]

Day 13 19/06/21 It has been difficult to find time to write in the past few days. We spent Friday in Calais; the hotel wasn’t special at all. Both Carlos and I are very easy, and we do not expect much from our accommodation, but I think we ended up […]