Last Post : thanks to you all!

It does rain on the camino!  Into the wind and up the hill

Safely home at last - thanks to the overwhelming support from all of you and a total of €2,708 already pledged to cancer research.  Breakthrough Cancer Research

Finally I have a chance to share some of my photographs taken along the Camino: hopefully they will give a flavour of the places seen and the type of terrain . Please excuse the poor quality since they were from my phone: in the haste of packing I had forgotten to bring my camera!

(The pictures on the right relate to my walk from Mansilla in 2010)

A tough climb on our second day out of Pamplona: it  merited a post-picnic nap

Uterga : sturdy village houses with room for livestock and machinery beneath the living quarters

The lovely CXII   hermitage of Santa Maria de Eunate : we were here for one of the rare masses followed by a concert

Nuestra Senora de Eunate is greatly revered in the region

Medieval bridge at Estella, Navarre. 

On the ancient Roman road : cherrywood staff and purple Crocs!

Terracotta coloured earth of the Rioja region

Ancient storehouses in the fields - like our beehive huts

Frank and new-found friends in Logrono

Bar Deportivo, Navarette: peppers stuffed with bacalhau in squid sauce - a wonderful meal and the cause of our lockout! We were enjoying our food so much we forgot the time...

Enterprising stall holders on Sunday morning, selling bead bracelets and mini pilgrim staffs

Dead sunflowers stretch towards ploughed hills in Leon

Adobe buildings in a land with few trees

Ruined Antonin hospital has a road right through it

One of the nicest albergues along the route : En El Camino at the tiny village of  Boadilla del Camino

The Canal de Castilla in glorious autumn weather : Spain has very few canals

Which way should I go?  All roads lead to Santiago

Back with himself in Leon - glad the walk is over!

Leon's incomparable cathedral - this time in sunshine

My poor shot does little justice to this temple of light

Thanks so much for taking the time to share the walk with me, and for the wonderful support for cancer research.  Buen camino to each and everyone!  Go n'eiri an bothar libh.    Slan agus beannacht.