Tag / bucket list
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The Camino de Santiago: Camino Portugués
Just before the dark broke I left Santiago. It was strange. Everything had been leading to the city but now I was leaving it. I was heading in the opposite direction of the arrows. When I found them. And there was a bit of checking my phone map, especially by the motorway. Eventually, I got…
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The Camino de Santiago: Santiago to Finisterre
Santiago can feel strangely commercialised after being on the road for so long. A plethora of souvenir shops fill the old, narrow streets, hawking everything than can be covered in yellow arrows or shells. Still, I enjoyed a few days of doing very little and wandering the beautiful city, filling time between meals by taking…
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The Camino de Santiago: O Cebreiro to Santiago de Compostela
The albergue in O Cebreiro was freezing that night and, though I had three layers top and bottom, I could not get warm. Unsurprising then when I went out and found the village of O Cebreiro a pretty winter wonderland in the snow. Again I decided to take the main road down from O Cebreiro,…
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The Camino de Santiago: Burgos to León
Heading off from Burgos at the unforgivably late hour of 08:30, I was both rested and yet unenthusiastic. My rest had made me lazy. The next big milestone was León and my destination that night was Hornillos del Camino, about 20km off, the terrain being mostly flat and would be a good test for my…
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Bucketlists and Travel Goals
It´s that time of the year, come January it’s all new diaries, resolutions and of course travel plans. Looking back over my Travel Goals for 2017 I got thinking. I saw Arctic foxes in the Westfjords which was amazing, I did a road trip through the Highlands and I got to see more of the Northern…
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My travel bucket list
If money and time were no object where would you like to visit? The short answer is, well, everywhere but I have a few dream journeys that I really want to do: my travel bucket list. Actually I dislike the term bucket list because it implies that there will be nothing to do after that, but let’s…