Category Archives: Camino 2018

Today I finished writing up my time in Spain – as a chaplain to pilgrims in Santiago, and as a pilgrim myself from Toledo to Avila – in a new page on the main menu, Pilgrim Priest.  This includes the last few posts – I have now discovered how to show photos the right wayContinue reading “Pilgrim Priest Page Completed”

The day began well. Breakfast, with orange juice and ample coffee. The landlord had put on a DVD showing the sights of Avila, and it was a lovely morning for sightseeing, sunny but cool.  We walked over the bridge, along the wall, and through the old town, and found our way to the cathedral, arrivingContinue reading “Avila, the end and the beginning”

Both days have involved walking up steep hills to a named pass where the Camino crosses the road, and walking through a herd of cows.  Yesterday in the rain, today in sunshine with the wind at our backs. Last night was the only occasion we stayed in a pilgrim refuge – in this case, aContinue reading “The last two days to Avila”

After two days of frequent encounters with the main road N403, yesterday was delightful. For much of the time we were following Via Pecuria, which, judging from its logo, was an old drovers’ road, and is still used for taking cattle to summer pastures – we saw the evidence, but not the cows. We walkedContinue reading “The old cattle road”

This is where beginneth my Camino of 2018. Toledo was the site of the fifth convent founded by St Teresa, 450 years ago.  There will be a special concert in her honour in the cathedral on October 19, but we shall have gone our separate ways by then, Gordon to stay with a friend inContinue reading “Toledo”