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Don't you just hate being near a computer on a dark winter's day? With all those flights whispering their "come hither"! Well temptation got the better of me today and shekels have been dispensed with. Off to Asturias airport then Leon on Sunday 16th April. Starting next day for Oviedo (hopefully by Friday).
Excited about travelling it again as I loved it last time (well apart from the dog biting me).
Hope the weather is kind to me though. Last time as I arrived in Polodura Ender asked if the snow had disappeared and it was May 31st!
So optimism abounds and fingers are crossed.
Excellent decision @Al the optimist are you flying from Brum? I can't get away until September but booking flights etc to walk again definitely had something to do with the long dark nights of winter (and equally dreary days) here in the Outer Hebrides!
I look forward to reading all about your walk in due course
I wish. But Brum is useless! So I have to schlep to Stanstead overnight for a 7am flight. On return I take longer to get home from there than I do from Spain!
Excellent. I have booked to Madrid in May to walk from there to Sahagun, Leon then Salvador.I wish. But Brum is useless! So I have to schlep to Stanstead overnight for a 7am flight. On return I take longer to get home fromthere than I do from Spain!
A get to Stansted at 4am having hopefully slept on the 1 am bus from Brum (after leaving Wolves at 11:45). Plenty of time to go through security, eat and wait, wait, wait until 7! A nice comfortable hour after landing before bus to Leon arriving there at timely 2 o'clock. Over 14 hours is a long trip for someone so close geographically.
Never understood why being "sent to Coventry" was such a bad thing. And then I went there....Coventry used to be a candidate though.
Don't you just hate being near a computer on a dark winter's day? With all those flights whispering their "come hither"! Well temptation got the better of me today and shekels have been dispensed with. Off to Asturias airport then Leon on Sunday 16th April. Starting next day for Oviedo (hopefully by Friday).
Excited about travelling it again as I loved it last time (well apart from the dog biting me).
Hope the weather is kind to me though. Last time as I arrived in Polodura Ender asked if the snow had disappeared and it was May 31st!
So optimism abounds and fingers are crossed.
Hi Rachel et al,Hubby has murmured something about a Road Trip around our very own South Island next summer so that was as good as a green light for me to preoccupy myself with routes and bookings for the rest of the year! It's supposed to be summer here right now and traditionally not camino-thinking time! But we had a 30cm dump of snow at the weekend in the far south and we've just had a storm blow through that toppled trees and left us without power for a day - more wintery than winter.
The only temptation I am having to resist is the ignoble one of feeling jealousy at Al's freedom and proximity to Spain!
@Al the optimist - a travel tip for you. Check where I'm heading and go somewhere else! I got off the train in Galicia at 5pm in light drizzle. By 9pm the place was being hammered by winds up to 185kph and enough rain to float an ArkI am feeling envious Bradypus. Carpe Diem buddy. Buen Camino.
@Al the optimist - a travel tip for you. Check where I'm heading and go somewhere else! I got off the train in Galicia at 5pm in light drizzle. By 9pm the place was being hammered by winds up to 185kph and enough rain to float an ArkLocal TV news is full of it today. Seems to have settled down now but a little more forecast later today. I'm trying not to take it personally. Interesting way to start a Camino
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