Category: Camino Frances

Almost Time to Walk the Camino Frances One More Time!

The time for our next adventure is FAST approaching. Michael and I are about to fly back to Spain to walk the Camino de Santiago once again! This time we will be walking from LEON to SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA. It’s all time will allow us to do. So excited to get back to Spain!

I’ve been watching my countdown app for almost a year now and it finally ticked over to UNDER 30 DAYS today!

And at the same time this happened, I received a Google Alert for THE CAMINO CLUB. It is featured in a blog post on BOOKS ON THE CAMINO and I could not be more thrilled to see it in such good company!

The website is TRAVEL BOOKS AND MOVIES. I’m so glad they featured my book in this post because two of my favourite things are 1) Travel Books and 2) Travel movies. Definitely going to be scouring this site for ideas…hopefully I discover books and movies I somehow missed until now.

Here’s the direct link to the article in which THE CAMINO CLUB is mentioned:

Buen Camino: 15 Books About the Camino de Santiago

I’ve read 12 of these titles (plus my own title a thousand times through the editing process), so I’m already excited to have discovered two new Camino titles to explore!

My novel, THE CAMINO CLUB, was a Silver Winner in the Teen Fiction category of the 2020 Benjamin Franklin Book Award.

In just 29 days we will be heading back to Spain…and a couple of days after that we will set out from Leon to walk the beautiful Camino once again. Can’t wait!

If you haven’t read THE CAMINO CLUB yet, now’s the time! Also…check out the link above to the 15 Camino books. There’s some great reads on that list!

 

 

The Camino de Santiago ONE MORE TIME! From Leon to Santiago de Compostela!

I’m always up for doing the Time Warp again. I can’t count how many times I’ve watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It’s frightening that I know every line from a movie.

But that’s not what this post is about. I’m obsessed with something else just as much, if not more, than I’m obsessed with that fascinating cult movie from my youth. We’ll talk about the Roxy Theatre here in Toronto, and how they played The Rocky Horror Picture Show every week from 1976 to 1983 some other time. (-:

Let’s do the Camino de Santiago again!

Today’s post is about our upcoming pilgrimage! We have marked our calendar for September, 2025! That’s when we’ll make our way back to the Camino de Santiago in Spain!

A photo from 2019 and the first of our two shared arrivals in Plaza del Obradoiro…and the cathedral at the end of the Camino de Santiago. This was my second of three arrivals. In 2014 I did the walk with a group.

This time, we’ll begin our walk in LEON!

Tuesday, Sept 9th-Leave Toronto
 START END KM
Wednesday, Sept 10th Madrid Madrid  
Thursday, Sept 11th Madrid Leon  
Friday, Sept 12th Leon San Martin del Camino 22
Saturday, Sept 13th San Martin del Camino Astorga 26
Sunday, Sept 14th Astorga Foncebadon 26
Monday, Sept 15th Foncebadon Ponferrada 27
Tuesday, Sept 16th Ponferrada Villafranca del Bierzo 28
Wednesday, Sept 17th Villafranca del Bierzo O Cebreiro 28
Thursday, Sept 18th O Cebreiro Triacastela 21
Friday, Sept 19th Triacastela Sarria 18
Saturday, Sept 20th Sarria Portomarin 22
Sunday, Sept 21st Portomarin Palas de Rei 28
Monday, Sept 22nd Palas de Rei Arzua 28
Tuesday, Sept 23rd Arzua Amenal 22
Wednesday, Sept 24th Amenal Santiago de Compostela 16
Thursday, Sept 25th Bus trip to Finistere    
Friday, Sept 26th Santiago de Compostela Madrid  
Saturday, Sept 27th Madrid Toronto

There’s the whole schedule of our walk!

Michael, walking up the hill after leaving Portomarin, Spain, in 2019.

This time, I plan to draft a guide book of sorts. We’ll see how it goes. I think the world might actually need more guide books for those who don’t plan to walk the entire Camino. Not everybody can get the time off work needed to walk the entire Camino Frances from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago de Compostela. I’m going with the thought in my head to take notes and create something out of the experience. We’ll see if it materializes or not. Once you’re out there, putting one foot in front of the other, it’s easy to forget about taking notes. At the very least, I will document our journey here on my blog. I’ll have the intention…stay tuned!

Our arrival at the 100km mile marker just past Sarria, in September, 2019.

Have you picked up my novel set on the Camino Frances? Here’s a link to THE CAMINO CLUB:

THE CAMINO CLUB AT AMAZON! (It’s available wherever books are sold!)