Looking back over SJPdP
The sight of Roncesvalles after a long hard day of walking!
Cizur Menor
Puente le Reina - The municipal refugio and the bridge
Watching swallows dive bombing for insects only centimetres from the ground in Estella
The reservoir outside Logrono where I met my friends Denis and Elisa
Getting to Najera (eventually) having seen it from a distance for ages! Meeting my friend Conor in the refugio
Santo Domingo - The small square outside the refugio, meeting a gentleman who'd walked from Grenada, through to Santiago and going backwards towards Lourdes... He was kind, gentle, open... and seemed to speak every language under the sun, whilst eating and talking in the garden next to the chickens!
Burgos itself and the Cathedral... and having my first posh meal (as in not the menu) for about 13 days!
Tardajos for the refugio, the gentle hospitalero who helped whenever he could.
Castrojeriz was a lovely little town with a nice refugio and at the time was self running due to the death of the hospitalero (I think - my Spanish is a bit rubbish)...
Looking at the scenery from the hill after Castrojeriz - The tops of the hills all reach the same level - you can see how the landscape has changed! Looks cool.
The church in Fromista - Nice church, rubbish town!
Carrion de los Condes - Having been without my luggage from the off, I had to buy clothes whilst in spain. Carrion's market sells some good, cheap pants! Very handy!
Astorga - Beautiful town, lovely architecture, and an amazing private refugio. Ok, it's €7 but I think it's worth it for the salt and vinegar water foot bath!
Foncebadon - Read all my other rants about how peaceful it is... and the stars...........
La Faba - Having been the victim of dodgy tortillaitis, I chose not to try to get to O Cebriero and stayed in La Faba. A small village with a tiny shop. You can whip up some pasta and just chill out before doing the 5k up to O Cebriero the morning after. Bearing in mind it's all downhill to Triacastela I think that's quite sensible.
Triacastela - Having the bacon and eggs in the bar on the main drag with my friend Tobias whilst waiting to see if my friends Ben and Tony had carried on (Ben was also ill from Tortilla problems) Again opted to stay in the private accomodation that night.
Barbadelo - Basic kinda place but I enjoyed the fact that there was a van, in a field selling food and beer
Sadly the "cheesecake" in the bar up the road was flan in disguise! Nice meatballs though.
Hospital de la Cruz - Pulpo, pulpo, pulpo... and a very nice bar!
Santiago - a small, virtually unheard of town in NW Spain. There's a big churchy type building that seems quite popular