{"id":90009,"date":"2018-08-17T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=90009"},"modified":"2018-08-29T15:34:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T22:34:21","slug":"galicia-in-the-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/galicia-in-the-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"Galicia in the Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">A<\/span>fter walking the Camino Franc\u00e9s in 2013 from Roncesvalles and in 2016 from St Jean, Francine and I were busy planning our next Spanish adventure for 2020. The plan was that I would walk the Franc\u00e9s from St Jean (or possibly Lourdes), while she took a flat in Burgos to work on her historical romance book about the Camino. When I was done walking, we&#8217;d meet up and explore some of the places along the Camino in more depth, travelling by train or bus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-cold-and-silly\/25708209184_ce8107b4e1_k\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4908\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/25708209184_ce8107b4e1_k-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4908\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life is funny.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still planning 2020, but the pull of the Camino was stronger than we expected. One thing led to another, and a couple of weeks ago we bought tickets for a short Camino this October &#8220;just to tide us over&#8221; until 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Those following our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/about-the-camino-photo-of-the-day-project\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camino Photo of the Day<\/a> series know that we&#8217;re up to the final Kingdom of Spain that the Camino crosses: Galicia.<\/p>\n<p>Well, in 45 days, Francine and I will be winging our way back to Spain to walk the Galician portion of the Camino. In my defense, the airfare was absurdly cheap. As in, it was cheaper to fly to Madrid than it was to Mexico. Or New York. Or Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/galicia-in-the-autumn\/guidebooks2018\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7793\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/guidebooks2018-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7793\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our plan is to fly to Madrid and take a bus from there to Pedrafita do Cebreiro &#8211; I bought the bus tickets this morning. This little town is just 4km away from O Cebreiro, which is our planned starting point. We\u2019ll probably take a cab there.<\/p>\n<p>O Cebreiro is the start of the Camino Franc\u00e9s in Galicia. It\u2019s about 160 km (100 miles) to Santiago, which we plan to do slowly, in perhaps 10 or 11 days. This will be our first Autumnal Camino.<\/p>\n<p>We still have all of the equipment from our last Camino &#8211; packs and clothes and such &#8211; although I did have to get a new fleece and I&#8217;ll certainly need fresh hiking shoes.<\/p>\n<p>And we did splurge on a new guidebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After walking the Camino Franc\u00e9s in 2013 from Roncesvalles and in 2016 from St Jean, Francine and I were busy planning our next Spanish adventure for 2020. The plan was that I would walk the Franc\u00e9s from St Jean (or possibly Lourdes), while she took a flat in Burgos to work on her historical romance book about the Camino. When [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Galicia in the Autumn","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camino","category-francine-my-love"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/guidebooks2018.jpg?fit=1080%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-npL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":107589,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/the-long-camino\/","url_meta":{"origin":90009,"position":0},"title":"The Long Camino","author":"Thom","date":"07 February 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"last year's short, sharp Camino Primitivo, we're already planning for what I am calling \"the long Camino\" in the spring of 2024. Like our original 2013 Camino, Francine is planning to only walk part of the route, most likely the first ten or so days and the last week or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Camino&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Camino","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/camino\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/le-puy-map-intro.png?fit=1030%2C1013&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/le-puy-map-intro.png?fit=1030%2C1013&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/le-puy-map-intro.png?fit=1030%2C1013&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/le-puy-map-intro.png?fit=1030%2C1013&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":100831,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/the-camino-calls\/","url_meta":{"origin":90009,"position":1},"title":"The Camino Calls","author":"Thom","date":"30 December 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been noodling about going on Camino. The Camino has been calling to me. First quietly but persistently, and now louder and insistently. Previously, we've walked the Camino Franc\u00e9s, starting in various places: Roncesvalles in 2013 (Le\u00f3n for Francine), Saint Jean Pied de Port in 2016, and O Cebreiro in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Camino&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Camino","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/camino\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/100823-thumb.jpg?fit=765%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/100823-thumb.jpg?fit=765%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/100823-thumb.jpg?fit=765%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/100823-thumb.jpg?fit=765%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":104416,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/update-on-our-camino-plans\/","url_meta":{"origin":90009,"position":2},"title":"Update on our Camino Plans","author":"Thom","date":"11 February 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, it seems opportune to post an update on our Camino plans, or lack thereof. Back in 2018, we started making plans for a 2020 Camino. The basic idea is that I would start in Saint-Jean, and Francine would rent an apartment in Burgos\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Camino&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Camino","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/camino\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2462-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2462-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2462-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2462-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_2462-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":106200,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/our-virtual-camino-arrival-in-santiago\/","url_meta":{"origin":90009,"position":3},"title":"Our Virtual Camino: Arrival in &#8220;Santiago&#8221;","author":"Thom","date":"27 February 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Near the beginning of our virtual Camino, February 2020 my beautiful bride Francine and I finished walking our virtual Camino from Lourdes to Santiago, a distance of roughly 957km. You've heard of staycations? This was a staymino. It took us just over a year. At least I got one thing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Camino&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Camino","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/camino\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-27-10.57.09-scaled.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-27-10.57.09-scaled.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-27-10.57.09-scaled.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-27-10.57.09-scaled.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":106784,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/the-camino-calls-and-we-answer\/","url_meta":{"origin":90009,"position":4},"title":"The Camino Calls, and We Answer","author":"Thom","date":"09 February 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"in December of 2019, I posted some noodlings about the call of the Camino and where we might walk next. While both of the options I discussed there are still very much in our future plans, a more immediate Camino adventure calls: the Camino Primitivo. Francine and I have been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Camino&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Camino","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/camino\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CPR-Overall-Map-1030x379-1-1024x377.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CPR-Overall-Map-1030x379-1-1024x377.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CPR-Overall-Map-1030x379-1-1024x377.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CPR-Overall-Map-1030x379-1-1024x377.png?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":109833,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/planning-the-via-lemovicensis-or-well-never-have-paris\/","url_meta":{"origin":90009,"position":5},"title":"Planning the Via Lemovicensis, or, We&#8217;ll Never Have Paris","author":"Thom","date":"29 September 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I plan to walk a long Camino for Francine. 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