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A lovely Saturday stroll around some of the less travelled trails in Crone Woods, Glencree Valley, Ireland: https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=supersullivan&set=a.10220344546786054¬if_id=1634462554890377¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif
If you walk from S. de C. to Finisterre to Muxia and then back to S. de C, you could, if you wish, collect a Finisterra, Muxiana and another compostela once you remember to get the necessary 'sellos' for the compostela.
Hugh, I think it was issued to mark the 800th anniversary of the date St. Francis of Assisi was believed to have walked the Camino rather than the founding of any building.
Halloween Weekend saw me leading 2 group hikes in the Leitrim Hills, Saturday saw us on Sliabh an Iarainn:
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and Sunday saw us on Keeloge...
Sunday saw a more normal starting time for my hike and for a change, I was on the western side of the Wicklow mountains:
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A very early start to my Saturday hike ( 2.30 am ) to get to the top of Lugnaquillia in the Wicklow mountains to watch the sunrise:
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Stayed in Albergue Maralotx in 2013 and just happened to notice in a town a little further in an estate agents window that it was for sale. The quoted price then was €600,000 !
My final hike today in the Wicklow Mountains before leaving mid week for my summer holiday to the Czech Republic. Recent heavy rain had left the substantial portions of upland bog on the route a little demanding...
Trying to get a little fitter before a 3 week hiking holiday in the Czech Republic in 11 days I had a pleasant 55 km walk on the coastal path from Bray to Wicklow Town and back:
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A Friday night hike to Lugnaquillia, highest mountain in the Wicklow mountains to watch the sun rise. Not everything went according to plan.
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Sunday this weekend saw far less pleasant hiking conditions than Saturday but as I'd committed to leading a hike for the Irish Ramblers Club no shame free way of having a duvet Sunday morning...
Saturday this weekend saw me bring 2 German hikers from a sister hiking group to one of my clubs on a pleasant 22 km jaunt up Glendasan Valley to Lough Firrib and then back to Glendalough along the full length of the Glenealo Valley...
Led an easy introductory hike today in the Glendalough area in the Wicklow mountains, had 25 signed up with 24 hours today, only 2 others showed up and the remainder missed a lovely day's hiking...
As approximately 250,000 compostelas were issued last year, an 80% drop out rate would require approximately 1,250,000 to have departed the various camino routes bound for Santiago, even the briefest moment of thought would show that the 80% drop out figure to be a total fiction if you consider...
Spent the weekend in my little retreat in rural County Leitrim and went for an easy 9 km on quiet country lanes on Sunday morning:
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For me, when I was an active competition cyclist in the early 1980's , a member of my cycling club, Ciaran O'hUrmoltaigh, cycled a substantial portion of the Camino Frances as part of a Catholic Youth Group. I had never previously heard of the Camino so the name got filed away in my mental...
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