Still Madrid

Madrid

berlin

In Madrid.

Santiago-Porto

A few miles outside of Santiago in a hotel. My first hotel on the trip..

Tomorrow I fly.

Ready to be home and onto the next adventure..

I’m still in Madrid, whatever is left of squad is here too, somewHere.

Stuttgart, Germany 

50th walking day. Passed my 1,100 km mark yesterday and the 700 mile mark today. The interest of round numbers.

I had hoped to break the trip from Muxía to Santiago into four short days. (It’s still odd to think of a 20 – 24 km day as short. It would be odd if, at home, I said I was going for a short 12 – 13 mile walk.) Today I thought I would stop in Santa Mariña after 22 km, but both albergues there were completely full. Technically they were booked: The students mentioned that they, several places, ran into completely reserved albergues. Reservations of bunk beds seems to be the coming thing that’s already here, abetted by booking apps linked to route maps and other useful info sites. And because I was walking today’s route backwards, i.e., against the flow of people from Santiago, I got to see that there are, indeed, lots of people on these routes to the two ends of the world.

I walked on from the no-room-at-the-inns place, another 9 km, without difficulty and without any of the predicted rain. Staying in Vilaserio; very nice.