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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 23 and 24
June 11, 2015 - Today we begin our two-day ascent of the highest peak on the Camino Francés route. It starts gently. Today’s climb is a...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 21 and 22
June 04, 2015 - If arriving in León had been an experience in urban exploration, leaving the city was no less so. Its industrial fingers...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 20
May 21, 2015 - The walk into León is a wet but short 19 kilometers.
It's a rare opportunity to journey on foot from the perimeter of...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 18 and 19
May 14, 2015 - Rain. It has a way of stripping away sentimental thoughts. Yes, the colours are more vibrant. And there is a fragrance o...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 16 and 17
April 16, 2015 - The 21-kilometre tramp from Frómista to Carrión de los Condes takes us further into the Meseta. Here, the villages are f...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 15
April 09, 2015 - We left Castojeriz enveloped in a cool early morning fog, soon shot through with long shadows cast by the rising sun as...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 13 and 14
April 02, 2015 - Today we leave behind the big-city trappings of Burgos and head into the vast plains of the Meseta.
Occupying forty p...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 12
March 26, 2015 - The 26-kilometre path to Burgos crosses a vast swath of human history.
It starts with a midday traverse of Atapuerca.
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 10 and 11
March 19, 2015 - The 23-kilometre trek from Santo Domingo to Belorado contrasted two worlds.
To one side ran the slick, modern national...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 9
March 12, 2015 - Today’s 24-kilometre walk would lead us to three unique religious experiences.
We left Nájera at first light on anoth...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 7 and 8
March 05, 2015 - It was still cool and dark when we left Los Arcos on our long 29-kilometre journey to Logroño. Soon the blackness gave w...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Days 5 and 6
February 19, 2015 - It was the type of day on the Camino that you wish would never end. The sun soaked us in warmth, demanding that we remov...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 4
January 29, 2015 - The 24 kilometre walk from Pamplona to Puenta La Reina illustrates the ongoing significance of the Camino to Northern Sp...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 3
January 22, 2015 - “Pilgrim, you are in the Basque Country”
So proclaims an anonymous tagger on the sidewalk leading into Pamplona. It w...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 2
January 15, 2015 - Our second day on the Camino was one of spiritual opposites.
Arriving in Roncesvalles, after having crossed the low P...
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Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Photo Essay: Day 1
January 08, 2015 - It starts with a steep uphill grind, a small test of our mettle as long-distance walkers. Can we survive this first day,...
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A Tale Of Two Walks
October 22, 2014 - On September 29, 2014 Gail and I were leaving Mistlebach in Austria on the second last day of our 600 kilometre walk alo...
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