A beautiful day walking, straight into the love and welcome of family. Can’t beat that, looking forward to the family walk into Santiago. Thank you for sharing your walk with us. Cheers from Aussie 🇦🇺
Thanks for the kind comments. It's only Molly and I walking to Santiago still. Pablo and Claudia will visit with Pablo's dad for a few days, and then they will join us to walk from Santiago to Finisterre. The total was more than Claudia wanted to walk....
This was such a beautiful and moving day!! Just the expectations of being with your family must have kept you and Molly so excited. As always a beautiful video, but with the perfect outcome.
Ahhh that's a wonderful video meeting up with your family !!! That blue sky !!! Looking forward to next week when you all walk together. I also started your Camino Northe... Loving it
What an absolutely beautiful day topped off with rejoining your family and enjoying a Galician feast!!!! Sign me up!!! 😂 You must have both been feeling a little heavy hearted at this point, sensing the journey's end is near??? Thanks for yet again, another wonderfully enjoyable video. You did not walk over the bridge into Portomarin??
Cathy, we did walk over the bridge. It was raining and the wind was blowing so hard that we had to grab our hats, couldn't use our umbrellas, and were trying to hold our hoods up. So, I didn't take any video. As soon as we got across, it felt like the rain stopped.
Hi there! I enjoyed your video posts. Can you tell me how you arranged your accommodation? What app did you use? For the baggage transport, how did you arrange it? Thanks for your response. I am going in June.
For the baggage transport, we used Jacotrans. Just search for them online and it will give you all the details. For booking accomodations, I used a variety of methods. I started with Booking.com and got some of them on that. That didn't cover most of the smaller towns. For those, I did a lot of internet searching. I didn't find out about the Wise Pilgrim app until I was on the Camino, but that would also be a good place to try. I hope this helps.
Wonderful video! Thanks for taking the time to make these. I know the editing and putting it all together is a labor of love…but still a labor. Random question (and thank you so much for your kindness in answering my questions!!!), - some people choose to not do Saria to Santiago due to crowds but instead do Norte. What do you think about that choice? If you could only do one, which would it be? Thanks again for sharing your journey ! ❤
The crowds weren't that bad, but we did come up with some strategies to avoid them. Start really early and stay in hotels/pensions/casa rurals. The loud crowds are all in albergues.Also, walk in the afternoons. The trails are empty then. As long as you have a reservation, you don't have to race to your accomodation. And, if a spot got really crowded, we would just stop on the side of the trail, take some pictures, and let them pass. As for the Norte, we saw almost no one on that route. Of course, we did it in July of 2021, and they had just started allowing international flights after the COVID shutdown, so the numbers were probably especially low. However, there were more people on the Primitivo than the Norte. If you haven't done either one, I would chose the Frances. As I read in a book, "all Caminos are beautiful hikes, but only the Frances is Magical" (or something like that). I agree with that. The Frances was magical - and the people were a big part of that. We're both pretty introverted, but we enjoyed walking and eating with many of the other pilgrims.
9:42 I am thankful, in exactly the same vein, that, part of the days I took notes, and definitely, after the camino, when I could spend hours on internet again, I copied the stages from the credential stamps, and for before the _real_ camino, the days were very different as I was hitchhiking, there was a new city, a new driver and more like that every day, always some way to keep them apart. In 2006 I got a more detailed memory onto one blog, which in 2011 I copied unto another one, with the comments on the first inserted into the posts ...
4:44 Two hypotheses again: a) God is providing you nice weather for the family reunion (not yet seen if it lasts to the evening) b) the woman you talk to about the weather is Dutch or Flemish or Boer South African (from the accent).
Yes. She is Dutch and was one of our last-third-of-the-Camino friends. She invited us to hike the trail from the North to the South of the Netherlands. Maybe we will hike that one day.
3:49 Little hypothesis: some relative or fan of Michael Jackson is walking the camino for his soul, and spray painting his name, because that's what he'd do if he had walked it himself. Other little hypothesis: some Spaniards are not pious (in 2004, gay marriage unfortunately passed), and so, some people are irritated at the religious stuff and spray Michael Jackson as "competition" ... I hope it's the former.
4:02 Key word: _was_ - in favour of the former hypothesis, a Catholic or at least not violently Protestant or Secularist fan of his could be trying to do sth for his soul.
12:43 _"so they could put a lake where the city was ..."_ Was that under Franco? He was behind the power dam (embalse) at Jaca, as well. One of the things I do _not_ quite like about him was the tendency to be totalitarian over infra-structure. Contrast Medieval Cathedrals - one of the reasons the building project was interrupted and then resumed decades or even a century later was the need to buy up land from the owners. The owners were not forced to sell, and while a few made a deal of living in the house till they died, donating it to the Church and then getting masses said, perpetually, some people were, I will not just mention less pious, but in some cases they had a family and couldn't make such a deal, it had to wait till the next generation.
very very good.. and interesting trek !
A beautiful day walking, straight into the love and welcome of family. Can’t beat that, looking forward to the family walk into Santiago.
Thank you for sharing your walk with us. Cheers from Aussie 🇦🇺
Thanks for the kind comments. It's only Molly and I walking to Santiago still. Pablo and Claudia will visit with Pablo's dad for a few days, and then they will join us to walk from Santiago to Finisterre. The total was more than Claudia wanted to walk....
This was such a beautiful and moving day!! Just the expectations of being with your family must have kept you and Molly so excited. As always a beautiful video, but with the perfect outcome.
Thank you. It was great to see the family that night. We will walk with Pablo and Claudia from Santiago to Finisterre.
Thanks guys, your memories are now ours
Thanks for the kind words. I find myself still remembering the Camino all the time.
@@staceyandmollypilgrims buen Camino
Ahhh that's a wonderful video meeting up with your family !!! That blue sky !!! Looking forward to next week when you all walk together. I also started your Camino Northe... Loving it
Yes, it was great to see them and our Lugo area relatives. We are going to walk with Pablo and Claudia from Santiago to Finisterre.
That must be the most photographed horse. I’ve even got a photo with him
Yes. I think they really like to be in the pictures!
How exciting it must of been to see your family. And now continuing the Camino together.
We were thrilled to see them. They didn't join us walking until we left Santiago for Finisterre, but they met us in Santiago as we finished.
GALICIA!!!
We love it! We'll be back in late May.
13:02 Did you stay in Monte de Gozo?
They had Galician music, which was very close to Irish music, playing at the self service cafeteria.
We didn't stay there, but we had breakfast there.
Not bad.
At 5:07 - The Very Famous 100KM Marker -!!! WooHoo
Yes. We were happy to get to see it in pristine condition.
What an absolutely beautiful day topped off with rejoining your family and enjoying a Galician feast!!!! Sign me up!!! 😂 You must have both been feeling a little heavy hearted at this point, sensing the journey's end is near??? Thanks for yet again, another wonderfully enjoyable video. You did not walk over the bridge into Portomarin??
Cathy, we did walk over the bridge. It was raining and the wind was blowing so hard that we had to grab our hats, couldn't use our umbrellas, and were trying to hold our hoods up. So, I didn't take any video. As soon as we got across, it felt like the rain stopped.
Hi there! I enjoyed your video posts. Can you tell me how you arranged your accommodation? What app did you use? For the baggage transport, how did you arrange it? Thanks for your response. I am going in June.
For the baggage transport, we used Jacotrans. Just search for them online and it will give you all the details. For booking accomodations, I used a variety of methods. I started with Booking.com and got some of them on that. That didn't cover most of the smaller towns. For those, I did a lot of internet searching. I didn't find out about the Wise Pilgrim app until I was on the Camino, but that would also be a good place to try. I hope this helps.
@@staceyandmollypilgrims thanks a lot!
Wonderful video! Thanks for taking the time to make these. I know the editing and putting it all together is a labor of love…but still a labor. Random question (and thank you so much for your kindness in answering my questions!!!), - some people choose to not do Saria to Santiago due to crowds but instead do Norte. What do you think about that choice? If you could only do one, which would it be? Thanks again for sharing your journey ! ❤
The crowds weren't that bad, but we did come up with some strategies to avoid them. Start really early and stay in hotels/pensions/casa rurals. The loud crowds are all in albergues.Also, walk in the afternoons. The trails are empty then. As long as you have a reservation, you don't have to race to your accomodation. And, if a spot got really crowded, we would just stop on the side of the trail, take some pictures, and let them pass. As for the Norte, we saw almost no one on that route. Of course, we did it in July of 2021, and they had just started allowing international flights after the COVID shutdown, so the numbers were probably especially low. However, there were more people on the Primitivo than the Norte. If you haven't done either one, I would chose the Frances. As I read in a book, "all Caminos are beautiful hikes, but only the Frances is Magical" (or something like that). I agree with that. The Frances was magical - and the people were a big part of that. We're both pretty introverted, but we enjoyed walking and eating with many of the other pilgrims.
@@staceyandmollypilgrims , great advice. Thank you so much ❤️. I will do just that. Starting in April.
5:32 That's the cue for my second coffee.
9:42 I am thankful, in exactly the same vein, that, part of the days I took notes, and definitely, after the camino, when I could spend hours on internet again, I copied the stages from the credential stamps, and for before the _real_ camino, the days were very different as I was hitchhiking, there was a new city, a new driver and more like that every day, always some way to keep them apart.
In 2006 I got a more detailed memory onto one blog, which in 2011 I copied unto another one, with the comments on the first inserted into the posts ...
We have found that there is so much to absorb during the Camino that it is taking us all year to process it.
True enough.
14:52 Let me guess - on the evening of day 29, you join where you were walking the previous year?
It was a little later than that. We joined on day 30.
OK, not far off ... more like morning or midday of day 30 than like evening, I suppose?
what was the dates you walked this path?
Late June 2022
4:44 Two hypotheses again:
a) God is providing you nice weather for the family reunion (not yet seen if it lasts to the evening)
b) the woman you talk to about the weather is Dutch or Flemish or Boer South African (from the accent).
Yes. She is Dutch and was one of our last-third-of-the-Camino friends. She invited us to hike the trail from the North to the South of the Netherlands. Maybe we will hike that one day.
I am glad I recognised the accent correctly.
0:42 Second Breakfast.
Sounds a bit Tolkien and a lot nice to me!
YES!! Second breakfast! We were feeling Tookish.
@@staceyandmollypilgrims Wonderful!
3:49 Little hypothesis:
some relative or fan of Michael Jackson is walking the camino for his soul, and spray painting his name, because that's what he'd do if he had walked it himself.
Other little hypothesis:
some Spaniards are not pious (in 2004, gay marriage unfortunately passed), and so, some people are irritated at the religious stuff and spray Michael Jackson as "competition" ...
I hope it's the former.
4:02 Key word: _was_ - in favour of the former hypothesis, a Catholic or at least not violently Protestant or Secularist fan of his could be trying to do sth for his soul.
Or, someone "worships" Micheal Jackson?
Could be too.
12:43 _"so they could put a lake where the city was ..."_
Was that under Franco? He was behind the power dam (embalse) at Jaca, as well.
One of the things I do _not_ quite like about him was the tendency to be totalitarian over infra-structure.
Contrast Medieval Cathedrals - one of the reasons the building project was interrupted and then resumed decades or even a century later was the need to buy up land from the owners. The owners were not forced to sell, and while a few made a deal of living in the house till they died, donating it to the Church and then getting masses said, perpetually, some people were, I will not just mention less pious, but in some cases they had a family and couldn't make such a deal, it had to wait till the next generation.
Yes. It was in the 60s.
Exactly ... Tecnocracía ...