{"id":90134,"date":"2018-10-07T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-walk-in-the-woods\/"},"modified":"2018-11-14T12:45:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T20:45:57","slug":"a-walk-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-walk-in-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"A Walk in the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>e left the village of Samos as the clocks were striking 8 AM. First, the monastery bells, then a moment later the clocktower at the town hall, and finally a distant church.<\/p>\n

Most of the day’s walk was through a tapestry of forest and farmland. It was absolutely lovely. Magical.<\/p>\n

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We passed through innumerable places that explored the hazy difference between “tiny village” and “large farmstead”.<\/p>\n

Our route \u2013 an alternate of an alternate \u2013 was not on my map, and it was barely mentioned in the guide books.<\/p>\n

Eventually we rejoined the main Camino route with its many more pilgrims. We walked past a number of ancient oak groves and a stand of elegant cypress trees. Each felt as though some faerie wood had briefly intruded into our world.<\/p>\n

We passed through the major town of Sarria, which serves as the starting point for many – perhaps most – pilgrims, before resting at the tiny village of Vilei just beyond.<\/p>\n

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Sarria<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

(Originally posted to Pilgrims on the Way<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We left the village of Samos as the clocks were striking 8 AM. First, the monastery bells, then a moment later the clocktower at the town hall, and finally a distant church. Most of the day’s walk was through a tapestry of forest and farmland. It was absolutely lovely. Magical. We passed through innumerable places that explored the hazy difference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-nrM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":84742,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/mapping-the-camino\/","url_meta":{"origin":90134,"position":0},"title":"Mapping the Camino","author":"Thom","date":"25 February 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"It\u2019s a truism that one doesn\u2019t need a map to walk the Camino. 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