marjude
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 4/2011 VdlP,
4/2014 Rota Vincentina, Portugues.
4/2016 Aragones, Frances.
4/2019 Madrid, Frances
I started my Camino yesterday from Church of Santiago and Saint John the Baptist and you can obtain a credential there. I walked to Fuencarral in on and off rain. I used the Buen Camino App to find my way which made the walk easier through the streets. The walk is along city streets and I caught the metro back to my acc. Yesterday afternoon I went to the Cathedral to get a stamp and thanks to a very helpful security guard I obtained it.
Today I caught the metro back to Fuencarral and started walking from there. Once I saw my first arrow there were plenty to keep me on track. The views all around are beautiful and those mountains up ahead look a bit daunting but Nick ( jungle boy) ahead of me made them seem a bit easier than my imaginings.
I had a laugh this afternoon. I’m staying at the exe Tres Cantos hotel which was the only one I could get being a Saturday night and I walked in and went up to the desk and said I had a booking and his reply was “you have a booking here!!” as if he was surprised and I said “yes I do” so he looked and found it and he took my money and gave a key to a very luxurious room and in I went and there I saw myself in the mirror a 67year old woman with grey hair sticking up and backpack and I did look like something the cat would have dragged in as my mother would have said. No wonder the poor man was surprised that I was staying in this up market hotel looking like that when all his other guests are very well dressed. I’m going to enjoy my luxury because there won’t be anymore.
Colmenar Viejo tomorrow.
Buen Camino judy.
Today I caught the metro back to Fuencarral and started walking from there. Once I saw my first arrow there were plenty to keep me on track. The views all around are beautiful and those mountains up ahead look a bit daunting but Nick ( jungle boy) ahead of me made them seem a bit easier than my imaginings.
I had a laugh this afternoon. I’m staying at the exe Tres Cantos hotel which was the only one I could get being a Saturday night and I walked in and went up to the desk and said I had a booking and his reply was “you have a booking here!!” as if he was surprised and I said “yes I do” so he looked and found it and he took my money and gave a key to a very luxurious room and in I went and there I saw myself in the mirror a 67year old woman with grey hair sticking up and backpack and I did look like something the cat would have dragged in as my mother would have said. No wonder the poor man was surprised that I was staying in this up market hotel looking like that when all his other guests are very well dressed. I’m going to enjoy my luxury because there won’t be anymore.
Colmenar Viejo tomorrow.
Buen Camino judy.