As I begin to write this entry I find it more than a little curious that I now live in a town with a pilgrim’s church and refuge, albeit not in Spain and not on the route we walked 8 years ago. There are many roads that lead to Santiago, and we are on just [...]
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Flashback #13 – Camino de Santiago, Spain – 2001
Posted in Europe (ex. France), Longer Trips/Flashbacks, Medieval Stuff, Spain, Walking, tagged camino de santiago, pamplona, pelegrino, pigrim, puente la reina, santiago de compostela, st james on June 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Barcelona to the Pyrenees – Day 4
Posted in Cycling, Europe (ex. France), France, Longer Trips/Flashbacks, Spain, tagged banyuls sur mer, camino de santiago, catalunya, col de banyuls, espolla, figueres, michelin map, peralada, pyrenean cow, santiago de compostela, ter on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After three days of ‘white’ roads that didn’t behave like white roads at all (sorry, but you need to be a Michelin map aficionado to decipher the meaning of this), we were greeted immediately out of Figueres by a small, quiet (and properly white) road with more cyclists than cars.
Here we are at our first [...]
Barcelona to the Pyrenees – Day 3
Posted in Cycling, Europe (ex. France), France, Longer Trips/Flashbacks, Spain, tagged begur, figueres, salvador dali, spain, surrealist on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The ride out from Begur was pretty average I have to say. Most of the day we had a major road with tons of traffic and little or no shoulder.
There were poppies though!
I just realized that we never took any pictures in Figueres, our destination on day 3…or at least pictures of the reason I [...]
