8:30 am. It’s going to be a long 24 hours as we are flying Aeroplan Edmonton, Toronto,Glasgow. ?. Landing at 6:30 am so hope we can sleep on the plane. Tired already so shouldn’t be a problem. Waiting Waiting Waiting. Life’s good. 11:00 am. Boarding for Toronto. First time at the Edmonton International Airport. Brief time there but seems like a pleasant organized place. Another leg of the journey to begin. 6:06 pm Toronto time. (4:06 Calgary) flight delayed 2 hours. Guess we can’t complain too much. Hard to just sit around when you want to just get on with it. 7:08. Boarding soon. That’s pretty well it for today. Only 8400 steps or 6.15 km. But tomorrow we should make a few more. Now for more sitting. Cheers... read more

October 9,2015 On our way. Did 34 or so km. we are almost a third of the way from Santiago to Finisterre. We figure on 2 more days walking. Tomorrow a little less but maybe a little rain. Today was a great path way. Great sun with nice cover from trees. It was long but all good. We are With John from South Africa who is a great snorer and a very nice guy. October 10 Rain, wet. Over half the path was asphalt. Stayed in a little town Hospital. The Albergue was hard to find and the cafe was half a km away. John had arranged it and we were the only 3 there. Nice evening for sure. 28 km October 11 Another 25 or so km. spitting rain in the first 2 hours but ... read more

October 6,2015 The morning started off with a heavy drizzle. It rained off and on all morning and let up in the afternoon. Don't we look pretty in our blue rain gear. The trail was for the most part in groves of trees until we reached the airport where we had to circle round the airport. Again we had some grapes, walnuts and chestnuts from the overhangs on the roadside. This day was 28 km as we wanted to get closer to Santiago to shorten tomorrow. Tomorrow is a small 11 km so we will be in Santiago in good time for the noon mass... read more

October 4,2015 Wet to our bones! Even the ant in the picture doesn't like it. Welcome to Galicia which is known to give rain more often. I do have to give thanks that we have only had 3 days of rain, 2 difficult. Today's travel was from Portomarin to Palas de Rei. The path was good in that it was not as challenging as a lot of them having a sand/gravel base. Unfortunately it was raining for most of the 4 hours on the trail. Early on it was only misting with lots of fog but it didn't take long to soak us. Some of the trail was sheltered with trees but more of the trail was open allowing the wind and rain to get to our bones. It is now 9pm and our shoes are ... read more

October 2,2015 Today we took the alternative route to Samos where there is the largest and oldest monasteries in the Western World. It was founded by the Benedictines in 960. The trails were beautiful as we walked through a canopy of trees and brooks. We enjoyed our own tapas on the roof top of our Albergue with an awesome view of the country in midst of laundry but lovely. Again we happened upon some Camino friends/family and enjoyed a harty Italian dinner.... read more