Camino del Norté

Day 3 Ribadeo to Lourenzá

May 27, 2017 Today was my first day of walking the Camino. My starting point was Ribadeo, which is the first stage in Galicia. By all accounts today's walk was a challenging one. We spent most of our day either going up…

Camino del Norté

Day 4 Lourenzá to Gonzán

May 28, 2017 Getting ready to hit the trail. Today I did something that I have never done on any Camino. I took a Taxi. Our day started out as usual. We were on the road by about 7am and walking at a good pace. About 5k…

Camino del Norté

Day 5 Gontán to Vilalba

May 29, 2017 Today was back to normal. We were all up bright and early and out for a nice 23k walk. Our walk to day was a relatively easy one. Slight ups and downs but not the extremes of day 3. We met two new pilgrims…

Camino del Norté

Day 6 Vilalba to Miraz

May 30, 2017 About halfway through today's walk we reached the 100k left to Santiago marker. In our case 99.99k. Needless to say there were some very happy pilgrims. Today was a very very long day! We walked 36k or…

Camino del Norté

Day 7 Miraz to Sobranes dos Monxes

May 31, 2017 The walk today was only 26k but it seemed much longer. The albergue in Miraz was great last night. Everything was new which was nice. As I said Miraz is in the mountains of Galicia, It's like all of a…

Camino del Norté

Day 8 Sobranes dos Monxes to Soltera

June 1, 2017 Today we walked 36k taking an alternative route from the Camino Norte to The Camino Frances. The Norte normally joins the French at Arzúa which is 2 stages from Santiago. The alternative route only takes…