Karen P

Sarria to Portomarin – 23kms (plus an extra 2kms for missing a turn.) What a tough start to the day. It started raining heavily within moments of walking out the door, Riley made me feel like crap before storming off and within 10mins of walking, I was walking up an Continue Reading

Portomarin to Lestedo – 19kms (plus an extra couple of kms for Riley) Sooooo…. I didn’t have the day I was expecting. I’d had a terrible sleep and the 6:45am alarm has never been more hated on the Camino, even at the beginning! I did get moving relatively quickly though, Continue Reading

Lestedo to Melide – 20kms In Riley’s words, today was crap. Actually, his words were a little stronger, but trying to keep this pg. Our luck ran out with the rain. It was raining as we left our accommodation and it didn’t let up all day. It was a 5km Continue Reading

Melide to Arzùa – 15kms It was a short day today, so I’d decided to treat us with a sleep-in of 7:30am and have breakfast before we left. We’d looked at the weather forecast the previous night and it had said showers in the morning, less so in the afternoon, Continue Reading

Arzùa to Amenal – 23kms We both had a rubbish sleep which wasn’t helped by the 6:30am alarm, but despite this, we still managed to walk out the door a little after 7am. I thought yesterday was pea soup. It was nothing compared to today. The thickness of the fog Continue Reading

Amenal to Santiago de Compostela – 17kms How do you sleep when the next day you are going to be doing something more incredible than you ever imagined? Simple answer. You don’t. I think I grabbed snatches of sleep from sheer exhaustion and still woke up well before the alarm Continue Reading