{"id":8151,"date":"2018-10-07T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=8151"},"modified":"2018-10-15T13:13:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T20:13:57","slug":"a-walk-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/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

Sarria<\/p><\/div>\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":8148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pilgrim-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8190,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions\/8190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}