Author: Mary Day

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Camino de Madrid (CdM)

Camino options galore! Now considering the Camino de Madrid which is a camino path from Madrid to Sahagun, where it picks up the Camino Frances which takes you to Santiago de Compostella.

Distance would be approximately:
Madrid to Sahagun – 322 km / 200 miles
Sahagun to Santiago de Compostella – 303 km / 188 miles
Santiago to Finisterre – 84 km / 52 miles
Total: 709 km / 440 miles

HOWEVER! Once at Sahagun, I could train/bus back to some favorite places and walk some stretches of the Camino Frances. Maybe Pamplona? Burgos?Estella? Some points in between those places? Could add up to another 200 km just revisiting favorite places. Then once back in Sahagun, walk to Santiago and on to Finisterre.

Map from Wiki

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Sauntering – John Muir

“I don’t like either the word [hike] or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains – not ‘hike!’ Do you know the origin of that word saunter? It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the middle ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going they would reply, ‘A la sainte terre’, ‘To the Holy Land.’ And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.”
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Camino Frances Elevation Map

Camino Frances elevation map. Starting on the left at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France, the high peak is the path on which we cross over the Pyrenees Mountains into Spain. All those little peaks.. I promise you, don’t seem like little ups and downs when you’re huffing and puffing along.
And this is the path we walk on the Camino Frances. After 5-6 weeks of walking all day, and always walking west, the left arm and side of the face takes a beating in the sun!
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Tortilla de patatas

On the Camino, I passed on the delightful pastries in favor of the protein and stick-to-your-ribs Spanish Tortilla. Ate it nearly every day and got pretty tired of it, that’s for sure. But it was a solid breakfast that kept a pep in my step for many kilometers. No sugar crashes!
https://spanishforcamino.com/2018/08/24/tortilla-de-patatas/?fbclid=IwAR3UNowLI6lwmdxKuU2ip0NeEP9_brViUDddZe5q_h3V69wVqQvDyYbdpQk
Click the link for the recipe!
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Map of my 2019 Camino

May be an image of map
This was my 2019 camino. You can see the gap around Leon (where I took the train because I was going too slow to finish before my flight home) and then the gaps going into Santiago.. where I was walking/not walking with pneumonia. I kept my phone on all the time and was connected to google so John could track and see where I was. Hopefully, I’m going back in Sept 2021 and will start over.. this time with no gaps 😉 The dots follow me on my walk.