As a reminder, I am walking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route of the Camino Frances. There are many Camino routes to Santiago de Compostela- the Frances is the most popular and has the most developed infrastructure in terms of number of villages, places to eat and sleep, medical care, and other first-world resources.
Starting in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France, and ending in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, one walks 790 kilometers / 500 miles through northern Spain. The path is about 60 miles inland from the northern coast. (The Camino Norte is the northern most route close to the coast.)
Today, October 15, I’m about 40 km away from Santiago. Normally, this would be a two-day walk, however, today I will walk 20 km and then break the last 20 km stage into two, short 10 km days. I want to arrive in Santiago rested and early in the day.
From wiki: The Camino de Santiago, known in English as the Way of St. James, is a network of pilgrims’ ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition holds that the remains of the apostle are buried.
