Category: Camino Routes

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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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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.
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October 18 Mushroom Benedict In London Airport

Cultural lessons & the kindness of strangers continue. I’m at the Flying Horse to order breakfast. The menu is on the table. I’m waiting for service and ask a server as she whisks past. Oh. Must go to the bar to order. Nice lady at the table next to me said I need my table number. I am at table 98. Or is that 86? Another lady verifies 98. When I order, the first thing I’m asked is my table number? How could I have known? The nice lady saved coming back, getting table number, yada yada. My question. What if someone else claims that table number while you stand in line? Hmmm…

From this point forward, English!
Baby Bella mushrooms, with arugula, not drowned in hollandaise sauce