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Again a training hike for my Santiago trip. Today I walked 32 km (20 miles) from my appartment in Munich to Höhenschäftlarn and back to Baierbrunn along the Isar valley. I took me 6 hours and 1/2 hour break. From Baierbrunn I took the S-Bahn home. This was really exhausting for my untrained old body. Nevertheless a good experience. I took the photo below at the beginning of the hike near Unterhaching.
canola field near Unterhaching, photographed during my hiking tour to Schäftlarn Related Posts:
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Pilgrims Poetry from Hernan Alonso on a bridge in Villafranca. My first hiking day starts at 7.00 am. From my Hotel I walk through Villafranca and I try to understand how and where to get the credential stamps for my Pilgrims book. I will not be succesfull in Villafranca, because I didn’t know then that normally I can get them either in the albergues, hotels or in churches on the camino. After a while I give up and take the Camino which was marked by signs leading over a bridge and out of the town. Leaving Villafranca I miss my turn for the Camino duro variant over the mountain. I notice this after 1 km and return to the start point for the Camino duro which in the Guides is described as the more beautiful Hike compared to the walk along the freeway. The camino Duro leads over a mountain and avoids the loud freeway. Not very professional warning for the Camino Duro. Tha Path up to the Camino Duro variant over the mountains avoiding the freeway leads through a nice chestnut forest and through small hills and finally again down to Trabadello where it meets the other route. In those forest the Camino is not very good marked so that I loose around 30 minutes by walking back and forth the correct path.
Old Lady in Trabadello selling Pilgrim sticks. On my way up to La Faba I met Louis from the Basque country. A nice man which I liked very much. He chatted with me and then everybody continued with his own pace. He told me he was doing the camino every year for ten years now, starting in his hometown in the Basque country. So he had a long trip behind him and was on his last 200 km, whereas I had just started on this day. I will never forget the “clip-clap” sounds of his ski sticks, which he used as pilgrim sticks. Later on I met him several times always delighted by his charisma. I saw him stopping wherever he met locals, for a small pretty chat. Everybody seemed to like him.
Louis from Basque country. I arrived in La Faba around 1.30 pm where I had vaguely planned to pass my first nights, but seeing it was so early in the afternoon and being full of energy on this first day, I decided to extend my hike after this first 20 km and take the hike up to O`Cebreiro mountain. Me in La Faba with another Pilgrim. On the way up to 1330m O´Cebreiro peak I pass the gallicien border and exactly at the border stone I meet another Louis, this one from Florida. He had no backpack cause he let it drive from albergue to albergue by taxi and therefore he had quite a good pace. I liked to talk with him not knowing that i would meet him again on two different locations on the camino. Photo taken by Louis (Florida): me at the gallicien border stone. At around 2.30 p.m. I arrived in O Cebreiro peak. The bad news arriving there: No beds free anymore. I got informed that I had to walk further 10 km to Alto do Poio. Another mountain. Not much good temper to admire the Palloza houses in O’Cebreiro. I got the first time panic: Where should I sleep this night? What if I have to sleep outdoors? I am so tired meanwhile after the first two mountains and hiking 30 km that I need around 2.5 hour to arrive a Alto Lo Poio and get the last bed in that hostal. My feet and back are aching, 40km on the firstday: I didnt expect this.
If you like to see more fotos here the link to my camino photo album Camino de Santiago 2007 . Related Posts:Early July I had the chance to travel the first time in my life to Asia. I had to give some training to colleagues in our factory in Penang Malaysia. Beside the humid weather it was a great experience in many ways, cultural, food, people and nature. I made knowledge of fruits never heard of before. Below my first contact with the Durian fruit aka the “King of fruits”. Its a fruit loved by the people there which has one big disadvantage. It smells ugly.In hotels and in rental cars you always see the No Durians sign, cause their smell is so disgusting. Neverheless people in Malaysia eat the Durian in small stands on the street side.
Me with a Durian fruit. See more of my my Penang foto shots here Related Posts:Like once every year this weekend we visited our friends Sonja and Volker in Winterthur/Swizzerland. During this visit we always do a Hiking Tour which this time was set up for Mount Speer in the Appenzeller Mountains. We started from Amden near the Walensee. Weather was fine but a little bit windy and colder than usual. Ideal waether for Hiking. We closed the weekend trip with a visit in the Schaffhausen Rhine falls, a spectacular waterfall of the river rhine. Here a foto on our Stop in the upper Chäseren Alm where we ate a “Gersten” (barley) Soup.
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Monday, 30th of April 2007 at 07:20:48 PM
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