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10/13 Madrid
“Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane, ain’t got time to take a fast train” (The Box Tops 1967) Ready for some more ramblings?? I was thinking about “I don’t know if I’ve been changed for the better, but I have been changed for good” from Wicked (2003) but I am not sure how much “I’ve…
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10/11 Santiago de Compostela
“The long and winding road, that leads to your door” (Beatles 1970) Okay, bear with me here… I usually think of these blog posts sort of like a first draft of a paper. It isn’t a finished essay, it isn’t a diary, it is just thoughts laid out without a whole lot of editing, transitions…
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10/10 Cadiz to Santiago de Compostela
Doin’ the “Walk of Life” – Dire Straits (1985) We arrived in Santiago de Compostela this afternoon, on a high speed train going 300 Km/h. Our journey began on foot, transitioned to a few days of biking, and when we ran out of time and tolerable weather, we decided to hop a train for this…
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10/9 Cadiz
“Our house, is a very, very, very fine house” (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 1970) Today was our last full day in Cadiz. It’s not a big city, perhaps 120,000 people (half the size of Jerez nearby) but as we’ve said, full of history. Our train leaves early tomorrow so we just walked downtown, scouted…
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10/8 Cadiz to Jerez De La Frontera…
…and back again! Cadiz has turned out to be a good location for a few days of exploring and staying dry!! We took the train this morning from Cadiz to Jerez. The train station is only a few blocks from where we are staying here in Cadiz. The station is right next to an Aldi,…
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10/7 Cadiz (still)
“Now you’re just somebody that I used to know” (Gotye, 2011) Cadiz is the oldest continuously inhabited community in Europe? That’s cool. Wow, when those Phoenicians do something, they do it right! For whatever reasons, though, there isn’t much here that is ancient (at least not much visible). Apparently with the wealth brought to this…
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10/6 Cadiz
Sunday… Sunday. We definitely made it a rest day! We woke up in beautiful Cadiz, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe. The city was said to have been founded around 1100 B.C. by the Phoenicians. And jumping ahead in history, it was between 1493 and 1502, that Christopher Columbus sailed from…
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10/5 Leon to Cadiz
“See them long trains runnin’, And you watch ’em disappear, Without loveWhere would you be now?” (Doobie Brothers 1973) It’s been a long day. Not a bad day, just long… We went today from Leon down to the coast in Cadiz (pronounced kind of like “cadeeth”). Spain is about the same size as South Dakota…
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10/4 Leon
“I am the Church, You are the Church” (Avery/Marsh 1972) Today found us in Leon – we had a restful evening last night after turning in our bikes at the Post Office. We spent today wandering around the city and taking in a few sites. Leon, a city in northwest Spain, is the capital of…
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10/3 Sahagun to Leon
Let it roll, down the highway (BTO 1974) We had a great ride today (other than getting lost a little – more on that later). 35 miles of mostly flat or gentle hills and very little in the way of wind. The Camino here follows a very quiet paved road and we were able to…
