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I've enjoyed these threads you have started, @trecile. Probably as the weather keeps getting colder there will be fewer posters...brrr.Here's the thread to post pictures, musings, etc. for any dates in November from any year, and for any Camino route.
When you respond, please mention the date, route you were on and where you walked (or rested) that day. Thanks!
Yes, but there are always a few hardy souls walking in winter.I've enjoyed these threads you have started, @trecile. Probably as the weather keeps getting colder there will be fewer posters...brrr.
I know! They put me to shame!Yes, but there are always a few hardy souls walking in winter.
Beautiful picture!
Gorgeous pic!
Tom, incredible, what a spectacular photo! Thanks, this is a new favorite.November 1, 2015: All Saints Day at the Pilgrim's Mass in Santiago.View attachment 86686
Wow, the people in that photo (for scale) show just how much of a monstrocity that monastery is.November 4, 2019. Walked from Ena on the Camino Catalan to Puente de Reina de Jaca on the Aragonese. I finally got to see the monasteries of San Juan de la Peña, both the new one and the old. Various posts on this forum mentioned the tough ascent and descent before and after the monasteries but I'll say that if you are used to hiking the White Mountains in New Hampshire they won't be a problem. The rain started once I got to the bottom. It was especially nasty when I got to Santa Celia and it was dark and cold besides. And there was no lodging available in town (usually but not this time of year). I walked the highway to a hotel in Puente de Reina de Jaca. In town I had a dinner of wild trout in a nearby restaurant. Normally I don't care for trout that much but Peg, who used to live on a trout stream, loves it. I ordered it so when I gave Peg my nightly call I could rub it in (like salt in a wound).
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Same day, different camino, the Aragonese. It was my first full day on it. Yesterday evening it was cold, dark and raining. Today was wet and gloomy on my way to the long evacuated village of Ruesta. It seems that all of northern Spain is experiencing much the same weather. And it is going to be the same for another week and beyond. I was going to be walking from Pamplona to San Sebastian during that beyond period (I wanted Peg to stay envious) but the weather forecasts persuaded me to halt in Pamplona.November 5, 2019 Dumbría to Muxia
Again today there were several short but heavy downpours.
Rick, every one of those 100+ sheep were staring at you in curiosity! What had you said to them?Nearing Toledo on the Levante, 2014
Picos de Europa from San Vicente de la Barquera, Camino del Norte, 2015
Hinojosa del Duque, Camino Mozárabe, 2017
Crossing from Andalucía to Extremadura, Vía de la Plata, 2018
Near Velilla del río Carrión, Camino Olvidado, 2016
Visigothic San Pedro de la Nave, Camino Zamorano Portugués, 2019
"Digan queso."Rick, every one of those 100+ sheep were staring at you in curiosity! What had you said to them?
Me!!! I'm on the Portugese and love it!Yes, but there are always a few hardy souls walking in winter.
I think I had lunch with you and a couple of other pilgrims one day at San Martin Pinario. One of the other pilgrims was from Ireland.11-07-18 Santiago de Compostela to Negreira. I have been in Santiago for 4 days meeting friends from along the way, and saying goodbye to just as many. I have enjoyed just hanging out with everyone, but the party cannot go on forever. I feel like I am losing momentum, and the constant goodbyes are draining. There has been a couple of good rain storms. I decided last night that I have to move on.
I really enjoyed the first part of the walk out of Santiago. The bridge Ponte Maceria is very picturesque. I would have like to have lunch at the restaurant, but it was closed. I stayed at Pensión La Mezquita in Negreira. I had dinner at Café Bar Imperial. After dinner I had some chupitos with some other peregrinos. There was a German girl that I passed earlier in the day that was walking barefoot.
It felt good to be moving again.View attachment 87055
Nov 2, 2015 celebrating my 80th birthday, the beautiful cake mysteriously appearing, thanks to the thoughtfulness of Nate and Faith...View attachment 87060
I did stay at San Martín and walked on and off with Ray (from Ireland) to the coast. Mark introduced me to Ray before he left for home. Send me a PM with a pic if you have one.I think I had lunch with you and a couple of other pilgrims one day at San Martin Pinario. One of the other pilgrims was from Ireland.
I remember seeing that pilgrim Marco at Roncesvalles. He and the peregrina and the dog camped outside in the grass. I remember them camping at Zubiri as well. Down in the river bottom, near the bridge.11-09-18 Santa Mariña to Olveiroa on the way to Fisterra. It was a rainy, windy, and cold day again. Ray and I took turns taking the lead with the other drafting the lead person. I think we only stopped once to get out of the rain, have some coffee, and drip all over the floor.
Ray stayed in the albergue, and I opted for a room in the adjoining Casa Loncho. I think I didn't want to deal with bunk beds, vying for drying space, etc. after being wet all day. I did get in a short nap, but I miss the energy of the albergue.
I saw Marco in the restaurant while my clothes were drying. I met him my first day in St. Jean at a little park up the hill from the Pilgrim's Office. He was with a German? girl and her dog. He had hiked from his home in Switzerland. I had dinner with Marco, Ray, Devin, and Nora.
Silly girls playing in the rain. Looks like Nora took my advice and snagged some dishwashing gloves. I packed a set of extra large dishwashing gloves to wear over my liners on rainy days, until I got some Zpack Rain Mitts.
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Yes, that's what I assumed.Possibly many are ending their caminos in November before colder weather sets in, but started walking in October.
Two caminos for me today and on the same day (in 2019). I walked from Tiebas on the Aragonese to Puente de Reina on the Francés. Eunate was open for me to visit but possibly just because a wedding held there was finishing.It's interesting that a large number of these November posts are accounts from either Santiago or the Camino to/from Finisterre/Muxía.
This is certainly the case for me. Spring or Fall - no HOT weather for this boy. I am okay with cold. I have a short Camino (a failed attempt at the Invierno) in Feb/March 2016.Yes, that's what I assumed.
Yes, that's what I assumed.
Yes.... from Coimbra all the way to Tui I saw hardly anyone at all. Just 4 others who were in a group and I wold not see them for a few days at a time as we were on different stopping points.Possibly many are ending their caminos in November before colder weather sets in, but started walking in October.
I started my fall Camino from St. Jean on 09.17.17 and a year later on 09.26.18. There were significantly less people in 2018. I could walk the normal stages, and complete the Camino in ~30 days. However, I like to take my time, and have some zero or nero days. Assuming 6 weeks on the Camino ... starting mid September ... arriving in Santiago on All Saints Day. Just in time before the albergues start to close for the season. In 2018, near the end of my Camino, there were some albergues that had already closed for the season.Yes, that's what I assumed.
I have to wait until June, as I have never done one earlier than that.Well, every normal journey supposedly has an end but, it is apparent from participation here, that a Camino does not.
Yet, on this date in both 2012 and 2017, I tended to the mundane matters of getting organized to return home. So, I believe that I will end my reporting here. No point in boring you.
See you again in February perhaps?
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On this date November 10, 2019, my friend Kathy and I arrived in Santiago, in pouring rain. We had walked the central route of the Portugues from Lisbon, by way of Fatima. Beautiful camino days until the second day in Porto, thereafter it rained for the better part of every day after.
I should have been walking the Norte now...
"Don't cry because it is over -- smile because it happened"
Now I'm starving!
Crossing the Douro to Tordesillas, Camino del Sureste, 2014
Crossing the Eo into Galicia, Camino del Norte, 2015
Arco de Cáparra, Vía de la Plata, 2016
Sierra de Gata, nearing Ciudad Rodrigo, Camino Torres, 2017
As Médulas, Camino del Invierno, 2018
Aguas Santas, Camino Sanabrés, 2019
Must be something they do in First Class!The start of November marks the end of our Autumal caminos and I am usually on a plane heading home. It's also my birthday and so I always get bubbles and sometimes a cake brought down the aisle by a hostess. It's kind of appropriate that a woman called Hel celebrates her birth on the Day of the Dead.
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