Day 3 on the Camiño Dos Faros and a great day's walking, approaching epic! Early morning near  The big change, after yesterday, ...

One word provides an all too succinct summary of today: 'wet'. It was drizzling as we left our lovely hotel at about 9-30, and rai...

After the navigational challenges of the first circular walk out of El Pont de Suert the second is a 'piece of cake'. ...

Starting at the beginning of March 2013, I walked for five weeks along the GR1 Sendero Histórico. Apart from the weather, apparently the wo...

Arrived in L'Escala, the end of the GR1 Sendero Historico on the Mediterranean, at about 5 o'clock. It was freezing cold with a b...

Heading down on the final descent to the Mediterranean the weather is a real disappointment. Instead of the blue sky, sun and sea it's ...

After complaints about yesterday's walk being too long it was essential to come up with something shorter today. The original idea was...

Normal service resumed, the walk was longer than expected and I was in trouble as we made the final, extra long approach to Ripoll. Not s...

Today must be the first day when I managed to estimate the distance correctly. Normally I am horribly over-optimistic but today almost ever...

After Christine's guest blog it's back to business as usual with me reporting on the first day of the final week of my trudge acro...

Guest blog by Christine Having sworn blind last night that this was the last of John's trips I wanted to come on, I woke up this morn...

My perfect walking day, on these long distance treks, is 8 hours. Less and it feels you're not covering the ground and hanging around ...

Today, for two basic reasons, was a tougher walk than I expected. Firstly it was longer, 28 kilometres rather than the 23 we had expect...

Christine's luck continued into a second day. Wonderful sun all morning until about 2pm. Then cloud and wind , but it didn't start...

First day for Christine and so far she has been 100 per cent lucky, gorgeous sunny morning, clouded up just a bit in the afternoon but both...

Apparently the weather has been dodgy back in the UK and Christine was stuck on runway at Stansted for 5 hours. Poor Juan was waiting for ...

Brilliant walk, great scenery, lots of interesting and unexpected things and a lovely trail. Again it's a different route to the one ...

Doesn't feel that I've done a full day's walking when I finish at 2.30, particularly when weather is as perfect as it was toda...

When it comes to navigating along long distance trails every country in Europe is different. In the UK we have fantastic maps, with the rou...

No Day 17 I'm afraid. It rained all night on Saturday and according to the weather forecast it was going to rain all day Sunday. I wa...