Hi Everyone! A bit soon to blog again, but I am now in a small town called Hospital de Orbigo....one stop before Astorga. I will be here for 2 days because of a bad infection in my foot....let me start at the beginning, or again, where I left you last time...in Atapuerca... The next morning, we went back to that same restaurant and had the same big-bellied, smoking, very slow guy serving us...took about a half hour to get a coffee and a chocolate croissant - that has become my breakfast as often as I can get it! And then there´s [View Full Entry]

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It´s been a while now after spending a couple of days traveling with Linda and it´s been quite an adventure! Let me start at the beginning, or where I left you last time...in Villa Tuerta (which I was calling Villa Tortilla). There are a couple of things that I really haven´t been sharing so far because I´ve either forgotten or I´ve just been in such a state of joy and bliss most of the time, that I haven´t thought of sharing it. Soon after I got off the internet last time, I went out to the terrace where the dog was [View Full Entry]

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Hey Everyone, Thanks for all the messages and comments on my blog and on the photos´on FB. I truly appreciate them all. It makes me feel closer to home. After I left you last time, I was in Puenta La Reina. A large town or small city. I was staying in an Albergue that didn´t really have any charm to it. It was in the basement of a hotel. I found out later that there were 2 more there. One was an ancient one in the middle of the city and one was a brand new "chain" albergue just on the [View Full Entry]

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...and I´m singin´my hobblin´song....I´m just hobblin´along... Helllloooo! First I´d like to thank everyone for the healing energy! I felt it all! So, after I wrote the last time, I went for a little walk around the Albergue and found a couple of nice Irish girls, Betty and Linda. Both from Dublin. They were cousins. Betty has done the Camino many times and knows the author of the book that most people carry to do the Camino. She talks non-stop with that famous Irsh accent (eighteen and tirty four). They were a lot of fun. We were joined by a Canadian couple [View Full Entry]

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I´m not really sure what day this is or how many days I´ve been on the Camino, but I´ll try to get it all in here since I started. It has been amazing in many ways! Camino Day 1 Ken and I joined together in St. Jean Pied de Port and started out a little later than everyone else. We headed down to the post office to see if we could send stuff ahead as my pack was very heavy. Ken needed to send some post cards. It turned out that it would have been very expensive to send from there, [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone, Unfortunately, I can,t post any pics with this blog, but rest assured, I will as soon as I can. I had a completley amazing time in bordeaux, thanx to my CS host Katia. She met me at the tram station when I got into town which was quite late at night. We brought my pack to her flat which is right in the middle of the old city and near the river, the opera, the shopping and the restaurants. We went for a midnight stroll and saw beautiful bordeaux at night...I was in awe! The next day,after going to [View Full Entry]

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...and I'm only in Paris! It's day 3 in Paris already and getting ready to hit the road again. So far it has been great. I landed here at 7am on Sept: 4, grabbed my bp, got on an airport bus, got off at the Opèra, got on the Metro to la Gare de l'Est, Quickly got on a hop on-hop off city tour bus and went to see all the sites in the city. Of course I forgot my camera in my bp which I had stored at the Gare. I didn't get off the bus much except to pee, [View Full Entry]

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Well, the countdown begins. One week to go!! I've got almost everything done and bought except a set of long underwear and I still have to go pick up the Euros I ordered from the bank. Plus I still have to move my clothes from my dresser so Maureen can put hers away. No, I haven't packed yet. I will wait until the last day to pack. I have to try to keep my back pack to under 14 LBs, so may have to rethink what I'll be bringing. I will arrive in Paris at 7am Sept. 4. I am staying [View Full Entry]

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Well, I've only got another month and a bit to go before I leave. I've been busy trying to get all the clients and classes in before I leave. People have been great! I've also been training. Walking with a full back pack for about 2 hours a day. I know it's not enough, but I do it when I can. Well this is it for now...just testing the blogging thing. [View Full Entry]

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