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  1. wes

    LIVE from the Camino My first Camino: reflecting on my journey so far.

    Thanks LuisaR, I’m greatly enjoying your story and am looking forward to following your journey. The Camino has been a life-changing experience for me; perhaps it will be for you, too. Buen Camino!
  2. wes

    Winter Camino Late Jan-mid March 2022

    Hi Jess, I walked the Meseta from Burgos to Leon in February last year and it was marvellous. Although the Meseta is uniformly elevated, it doesn’t have very high peaks as say, on Day 1 out of St Jean, or later at O Cebreiro, etc, and so is less likely to have snow, which is always a possibility...
  3. wes

    Carrion de los Condes

    I should have posted this before, but anyway ... Anyone who reads this, whatever you do, don’t miss Moratinos, it’s my personal numero uno on the Camino. In late February this year my partner and I were walking from Calzadilla to Sahagun. It was sleeting ice, brutally cold. We were desperate to...
  4. wes

    Are you thinking to walk the Camino (the way of the Saint James) again?

    The camino becomes a part of your life. Once you've experienced the liberation it brings, it's always present in an uplifting way. Spain's a long way and expensive for me to get to, and I've got work commitments limiting my time, but after several years away I simply want the experience again...
  5. wes

    Help with Roncesvalles

    You could also look at Burguete, only four or so kms past Roncesvalles. If you’re interested in the Hemingway thing, he stayed in the Hostal Burguete, and there was still some memorabilia there. It’s a few years since I was there but it was a comfortable, well-run, small hotel. There’s other...
  6. wes

    Wainwrights Coast to Coast UK Compared to Camino Frances

    Hello Kathy, I've re-read the posts from December and you're right, we do make the C2C sound a bit dire. I guess I wasn't expecting to have to expend so much effort on (1) watching where I was placing my feet, and (2) assiduous compass and map-reading. On all of my four Caminos I wandered along...
  7. wes

    Wainwrights Coast to Coast UK Compared to Camino Frances

    Hello Sunbun, I walked from late-April to mid-May and took about 16 days, including a day off in Richmond. Every day there was either one or a combination of drizzle, rain, very strong wind, mist and fog. When the wind and rain coincided it was really hard going, because the terrain is generally...
  8. wes

    Wainwrights Coast to Coast UK Compared to Camino Frances

    Hola, Walkingboy, I agree with everything Jill has said, plus some. When I walked Wainwright’s coast-to-coast a few years back, you could add-in gale-force winds, near-zero-visibility fog, getting lost, and lashing rain. I’m not criticising anything, I enjoyed every minute of it (well, at least...
  9. wes

    The puzzling 100 km mark

    The 100 km marker in October 2006.
  10. wes

    Valcarlos to Roncesvallles?

    I'm assuming you're going to stay overnight in Valcarlos. The mere fact that the Valcarlos to Roncesvalles walk is 11 kms less than St Jean to Roncesvalles makes it far easier. Nor is it as relentlessly ascending, although there's still enough steep stretches to raise your heart rate and test...
  11. wes

    Barcelona to St Jean: suggestions on best practical and cost effective route

    I can understand why you'd like to start in Barcelona, a wonderful city. However, it does make getting to St Jean more difficult than it needs to be. I've travelled from Canberra to St Jean twice, on each occasion via Paris, then on the TGV to Bayonne and the regional train to SJPdP. It's easy...
  12. wes

    walking the camino "is it a virus"

    A virus, an addiction, a calling - whatever you might call it, walking "The Way" reveals what's important and what isn't.
  13. wes

    A wintery meseta

    Beautifully atmospheric pictures. Paths that stretch to the horizon provide one of the defining emotions of the Camino. Regards, Wes
  14. wes

    A wintery meseta

    Thanks, donalomahony. If a picture's worth a thousand words, yours are worth several thousand. Wes
  15. wes

    A wintery meseta

    Thank you, that's very helpful. On an open, seemingly endless meseta, clear and cold is perfect for the body, mind, imagination, and spirit. And a bit of rain and not too much wind can be strangely enjoyable. But while an hour or so's worth of sleet, ice, snow storms, and gales can be exciting...
  16. wes

    A wintery meseta

    Thanks, brawblether, an extremely interesting and helpful post. I've walked the meseta twice, once in early autumn and once in late autumn. I don't like to choose favourites on the Camino, it's all wonderful, but if I had to, it would be the meseta. I've started thinking vaguely about walking...
  17. wes

    What is this?

    Gee, you'd have to be hungry to eat a sausage that looks like that. Wes.
  18. wes

    Walking in May

    Hello Graham, I've worn running tights (skins) on cold/wet days on the Camino and the coast-to-coast in England. On cold days I also wore light hiking trousers, and on wet days waterproof trousers. The skins were terrific: as you know, they're light, they keep your legs warm, and they help to...
  19. wes

    Novels along the way?

    In 2006 I was able to exchange a few books with other peregrinos; and I also bought English-language books in Pamplona, Logrono, Burgos, Leon, and Astorga. The books I bought weren't always titles I'd have normally chosen, but that turned out to be not a bad thing. In 2013 I took my Kindle...
  20. wes

    Please tolerate me revisiting the topic on Camino Guides...

    I walked the Camino in 2006 using Brierley. Experience revealed numerous shortcomings,but it was better than nothing. I'm heading off again from St Jean later this year and have just bought Dintaman and Landis, Hiking the Camino de Santiago from Amazon, published in May 2013. Based on my...

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