Blog posts about Spain.

Sending postcards home from Spain was a bit of an emotional roller coaster ride due to Europe’s response to increased U.S. tariffs. … Spain might not send mail to the U.S. … Spain will send mail, just not packages. … Spain says they will send anything under a certain value, but individual post offices might interpret that as sending nothing at all.

As we plan out where we are going to travel, one of the factors that we consider is whether there will be a Christian, preferably Lutheran, church nearby. We plan our travels six to twelve months in advance.

People started making the pilgrimage from parts of Spain, and later other countries in Europe back in the middle ages. The most popular route is the Camino Frances, but the original pilgrimage is what today is called the Primativo is the route we took. It starts in the town of Oviedo and crosses the hospitales mountains and continues going over, between and around mountains down into river valleys eventually winding and twisting its way into Santiago de Compostela.

Truth be told, the book on my Spanish bookshelf was actually found on the bookshelf of our Latvian BnB.

I’m sitting in Melide, Spain… having our 3rd and final rest day before our last three walks to Santiago de Compostella. When we decided to do the Primitivo route, the main reason was that it sounded the most like what we enjoy about hiking.

What does one do and think about all day long while walking up and down hills and mountains for hours and days on end with only yourself, your spouse, and the occasional fellow pilgrim as company?

We came to Oviedo Spain two days before our plan to start hiking the Camino de Santiago. We started planning this over a year in advance but since we were also planning such monumental life changes (quitting our jobs, selling our belongings and transitioning to a global nomadic lifestyle) we didn’t even consider spending the time to plan our multi-day Spanish hike on our own.