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Me, too, Rick!Just a note to let you know I will follow this as well.
Buen Camino.
Meet ing Rick tomorrow morning for breakfast in Barcelona before he heads out walking! How cool is that!Another Rick groupie reporting in! Wishing you a wonderful camino, very much looking forward to following it! Buen camino from Laurie
Enjoy your breakfast and say hello to Rick.I
Meet ing Rick tomorrow morning for breakfast in Barcelona before he heads out walking! How cool is that!
How cool is that indeed! I missed this somehow and am happy for you both. Happy breakfast, and then buen camino Rick and Peg...Meet ing Rick tomorrow morning for breakfast in Barcelona before he heads out walking! How cool is that!
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Meet ing Rick tomorrow morning for breakfast in Barcelona before he heads out walking! How cool is that!
I just saw this post now. Peg is in the basement while you are gallivanting? The meet-up with Chrissy will surely cheer you on to set you on your way. I look forward to more...
You have given me an idea, tackling el Perdón in reverse. Pamplona to Trinidad de Arre is also lovely, following the river through the woods. I have not gone further on that path, as you will go left where the path to Zabaldika goes right. The Baztan threads, read with a mirror, should keep you right!
i wish you a safe and buen camino.
NYC, Rick "claims" she has been with him on vacation, but flying back home today...hmmm.Kirkie,
I just asked Chrissy if Peg exists.
As yet, no reply.
I know how. You've been missing from the Not Serious thread. And I know that because we've been missing you.I missed this somehow
When Peg snoozes, she loses...it's always "night time" in her domain.And now it's time to get out of bed. I've got a date
I've got a date.
I agree. I may end up having another when I get back to Barcelona. Another forum member.Dates are good snacks on the walk; a single one might not be enough
Hope we can meet up upon your return to Barcelona. Enjoy your travels!I agree. I may end up having another when I get back to Barcelona. Another forum member.
With the troubles in Barcelona that is good. Good anyway. I wouldn't mind doing it but if I did do that in addition to mine when I get home I might find my clothes on the lawn.Planning to walk to Montserrat early Nov. Was to start in B but been persuaded to begin at El Port del Selva.
For future reference, or to others who may be interested, there is in fact an excellent Airbnb option in Tarrega where I have stayed twice while walking this route. Keep enjoying yourself!Day 2
Sant Cugat to Terrassa (and back again)
This day's walk was only half as long as yesterday's. I was feeling good about it but was disappointed.
I awoke at 5 with the sound of heavy rain. It stopped about 8. Since this was a commute day (walk there, train back due to a lack of reasonable to me accommodation in Terrassa) I decided not to take the pack and go with my bum bag only (using ANZUK term for politeness). Left Airbnb a little before 9.
I ran two GPS apps; wikiloc to show the track that the Friends of the Camino generated and OSMand to get me a track from the Airbnb to the nearest point on the wikiloc track. There were yellow arrows once I got to the camino but really only directional ones, not many reassurance ones. During the day there was varying amounts of clouds and ranging from dark to bright white but mostly in the gray range. For the first hour the skies were bright and there was a giant arc of a rainbow. During this time there were two sun showers but not enough rain for me to pull out my jacket.
That hour was enough to get me out the modern built up area of Sant Cugat to the country road. On this side of town too there was a very definite line between the pueblo and the campo.
While the walk through the woods was pleasant there wasn't anything really special to say about the walk here. Just be careful at all intersections to look for an arrow or a white horizontal bar above a yellow one usually with an additional white over red indicating a matching GR route. Some Xs mark ways NOT to go. One spot with 7 ways to go had me stumped for awhile.
A fairly distinct end to the woods at Terrassa's town line too. I saw work being done on a castle here and the camino goes right by it. I was then that I realized that it was the large house that was being transformed by a apparently wealthy owner. @Steven Dwyer had told me about it. Immediately followed by a bridge immediately followed by a fork in the camino with town names painted for each fork. I took Terrassa of course.
The way was on a dirt road following the river upstream. It was more of a glorified ditch. Lots of litter along the way. The wikiloc track had the camino on the other side of the river but the yellow arrows were here. The other side was paved industrial/commercial so pick your poison. They did eventually end up at a lovely park where the yellow arrows were replaced by an occasional post with a scallop shell medallion to point the way. I took a short break at the start of the park and then 5 minutes later another when I found a place where I could have a clara. Near the far end of the park was a plaza that was the end point of the wikiloc track and that was near the metro station where I could get the train back to Sant Cugat. I had a late lunch nearby (not very good) and I decided to go back. The sky was gray and my mood was also. The bum bag had hurt my back more than my pack had and was now slung over my shoulder. It was Sunday and things were closed. Terrassa just came to be an end to a walk.
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Saw this thread only this morningI came up with a positively weird camino. Tomorrow, Saturday, October 19, I'm going to start to walk my second camino. It is from the Mediterranean Sea at Barcelona to the Bay of Biscay at San Sebastian.
The plan as it is now is to take three days to get from Barcelona to the monestery at Monserrat where I pick up the Camino Catalan, the version that goes though Huesca and San Juan de la Pena. That brings me to the Camino Aragonese. If the weather is good, once at there I intend to transport myself to Somport so I can walk the full Aragonese. Either way, I connect to the Camino Frances at Puente de Reina where I go in reverse a day to arrive in Pamplona. There I re-evaluate my plans as going forward, once again, brings up the Pyrenees in a cold time of year. The plan though is to walk two days in reverse on the Camino Baztan to Elizondo where I pick up the GR11 going west. Two days should get me to Irun and one day more on the Camino Norte gets me to San Sebastian.
How this crazy trail came about may appear in a later post.
I don't expect to see many pilgrims and I'm a bit anxious about open (cheap) accommodations. The weather may not be the best either. It will be a long time away from Peg and I may be crazy (and driven more so) but, dang it, I'm going to give it a shot.
This post (#1 in this thread) is going to be different too. I intend to edit it from time to time to turn it into an evolving table of contents with links. We'll see how that goes too.
Day 1, Barcelona to Sant Cugat (post #31)
Day 2, Sant Cugat to Terrassa (post #34)
Day 3, Terrassa to Monserrat (post #37)
I'm pretty much tired at the end of each day.
I have no idea if this is what you want, but I googled the phrase and got these numbersI could find the latitude and longtitude coordinates for the Monasterio viejo San Juan de la Peña in seconds if I were home. With my smartphone I'm getting extremely frustrated. Please, someone give me its location in decimal degrees.
Turga, are you saying Rick has enough blubber to stay warm without long pants?Walking in shorts in 2 degrees C and rain! You are The Walrus!
I walked from sea to see Pamplona. The camino is over. Tomorrow I'll be back in Barcelona and the next night Boston. I'm heading home about a week early. There's someone there I want to see more than bombederos in the mountains.
You landed!Glad you had a nice way.
Enjoy Boston!
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