We take advantage of the long weekend and head north to visit the historical ex-capital of Senegal, Saint Louis. In the 1800’s, Saint Louis was the political capital of Senegal and the heart of ”
The Delta Saloum – Senegal
We are lucky enough to be invited by our Swiss friend Melody, tour organiser ‘extraordinaire’ to join her and other Mercy Ship friends for a long weekend away from the ship, heading south from Dakar
We’ve come full circle
Hello from Senegal… again! Our life with Mercy Ships has been quite the whirlwind. What started out as a 3 month commitment on the hospital ship Africa Mercy in 2020 has turned into an amazing
Our final weeks in Europe
It’s been a while since our last blog and although we’ve now left Europe, I wanted to finish up with our walk down the Portuguese coast and share our last weeks in Portugal and France.
The beautiful northwest coast of Spain
We leave the Camino Espirituel and carry on walking down the coast to the historic city of Vigo, Iberian Spain’s westernmost city right on the Atlantic Ocean. It has a lovely port, an old section
The Camino Espirituel
We have a few days of R & R in Santiago and since we have until the 10th of September before meeting up with our Mercy Ship friends in Porto, we carry on with more
Galicia, Spain and onto Santiago
Our next stage of the Camino sees us reaching the province of Galicia. We climb to 1300m to the village of O Cebreiro. It is quite a steep climb over a period of a few hours,
Leaving the ‘cereal plains’ of Spain
After leaving Leon, we hit a few more flat stretches but find some pretty cool albergues to stay at. At San Martin del Camino we scored a private room for 35euros…a bargain and a nice
Over to the French way
I think I mentioned the challenges we were having finding accommodation. It had gotten worse as we progressed along the northern coast. The pilgrim only albergues would fill up quickly and for the rest of
Bye bye Basque country, Hello Cantabria
So, we survived our first 2 weeks on the Camino Norte and have now reached the second of the four provinces that we will cover on this Camino. The Cantabria region covers roughly 144 kilometres