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Hi All—has anyone detoured to the Monasterio de Santa Maria de Carracedo, about 3 km south of Cacabelos? Is it worth the detour? Is it confusing to get from the Monasterio back to Cacabelos, since I understand it doesn’t have Camino way marks? If walking on a road is involved, is the road busy...
As I walked westward towards Los Arcos yesterday, my shadow stretched long before me and I had the fanciful thought that it was racing on ahead, much faster than I could go, “Come back, Shadow, I can’t keep up!”
Heat will do strange things to a brain and while I was urging my Shadow to slow...
I recently discovered that my ancestral grandfather was born in San Millan de la Cogolla and ended up immigrating to Costa Rica, by way of Guatemala in the 1700s. When I learned that this village is only a few miles away from Navarette, I decided to detour to spend a night there. Right now, I’m...
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