February 5 2022 – pre-Camino ramble So here we are just under 3 months before heading over to León to crack on with completing our trek on the Camino Francés from St. Jean Pied-de-Port, in France, to Santiago de Compestela. In case you didn’t know, there are many different Camino’s to Santiago. For us it’s the most well-known variant of the Camino de Santiago. Just over 500 miles long in total. So far, we’ve completed 297. Our base level plan is simply to get to Santiago. However, there are many that continue beyond there, heading out to the coast at Finisterre and then up to a village called Muxia where there’s an iconic shrine next to the sea. We are planning to try and do that additional part, which is around 6 days walking. Muxia After that we’re aiming to get the train down to Porto for a couple of days R & R. This time around there are many things that make the adventure slightly different. First and foremost, we are familiar with the vagaries of “C...
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