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Thursday 10 November 2022
Tuesday 16 August 2022
CAMINO LATEST:
Mark & John have now returned from Spain and brought these photos of their arduous pilgrimage.
The Bridge at St Jean is the official start of the Camino Frances. We had only just had the bikes delivered to us that morning, so we were anxious to get going! I had a cooling dip in the river the previous evening.
Crossing the Pyrenees, the col in the top of the pass and the highest point of the day. We could look forward to a much quicker descent - carefully! - down to Roncesvalles on the Spanish side.
The first big city on the Camino, Pamplona has the famous 'Running of the Bulls' through its streets, in July. Fortunately only the bronze ones were there on our visit.
'Iron Pilgrims' is a well-known landmark which we wanted to visit, although it meant using the rougher walking track instead of the road. Afterwards we had a very very warm descent towards Estella.
On the road to the small town of Carrion de los Condes, in the flat-ish 'meseta' or North Spanish plain, we passed one of many fountains for thirsty pilgrims.
The 'Cross of Iron' is at the top of a tall pole (so not visible in the photo), and marks the very highest point on the whole Camino. Traditionally passing pilgrims leave a small memento adding to the mound around the cross.
The village of Portomarin was rebuilt higher up before a reservoir filled the valley, and is now entered by a viaduct. The water was low at the time.
Journey's end for most pilgrims is the Cathedral square in Santiago. By now we had returned our hired bikes and were free to collect our pilgrim 'Credentials' and have a celebratory dinner, having set off on the final leg too early for breakfast that morning.
Great to have you back safe and well Mark & John after cycling up hills in close to 40.C Once again very well done - a great effort!
Don't forget
it's still not too late to sponsor them, just copy & paste the link below. Thanks for your support.
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/mark-ibison-rgt
Wednesday 29 June 2022
Camino latest: WELL DONE
to Mark & John they completed their cycle ride to Santiago at lunch time on Tuesday the 28th. No details yet but watch this space for more photos and details of their journey.
Click on the link below to donate
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/mark-ibison-
Sunday 26 June 2022
Camino latest:
We received this from Mark and John early on Thursday the 23rd of June, it therefore relates to the day before.
"We have now reached Leon and just come back to our room after seeing the impressive cathedral.
Tomorrow it’s on the (improved...) bikes to Astorga.
Rain showers this evening for the first time. Thankfully MUCH cooler now.We have just passed a milestone - halfway there now"
Well done to Mark on John battling on through the heat and hills! Don't forget you can still sponsor Mark by clicking on the link below.
Sunday 19 June 2022
Camino Sponsored Cycle Ride Latest
Mark Ibison & his brother John have now set off on their sponsored ride to Santiago De Compostela. We will keep up to date with their progress here.
This is their starting point, St Jean Pied de Port, in the French Pyrenees
Mark says: "It’s our 4th day and
proving a challenge to say the least! Resting up in Logrono tonight after a
real struggle the first 3 days - heat and hills, then more heat and hills...
Today has been a
recovery day... Further progress
depends on the weather cooling but we’ll make Santiago one way or another!"
(NB according to BBC news this morning the current extreme heat wave is the hottest ever recordeed in France and Spain this early in the year)
If you would like to sponsor Mark, you can use his Justgiving page.
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