I reached Santiago de Compostella, but even now as I journal from the comfort of my home far away from Galicia it feels as though the journey of a thousand kilometres is not done. It's never done - it never ends. Every step that brought me closer to Santiago was simultaneously finishing a journ...

My eagerness to take advantage of the good weather and walk over 50KM caught up with my knee. The journey to Ourense was a lesson in patience. Not only did the rain return teasing between shower spells and light torrents, but my pace was dictated by my left knee; forging ahead when possible and ...

The next day's trek from A Gudiña would have ended at Laza, but I decided on the day to continue to Vilar de Barrio. It was a long walk; the longest of my Camino to Santiago. I developed a sort of strategy over time; if I started walking early at sunrise and got to the day's destination around m...

N.B: The Camino has ended. I got to Santiago and have now returned to Barcelona. But I left this journal of notes and thoughts incomplete. Here is the first of many retrospectives to close the loop. Day 23 took me from Lubián to A Gudiña and was by far the most difficult trek of the Camino. The ...