3rd of October – we are already a month behind with our blog, but our Way of Saint James is not ending in Santiago. There is not this mysterious black hole, where all the pilgrims are walking to the end of their pilgrimage and then they disappear.
We promised not to take an airplane back from Santiago as most of the pilgrims probably do once they’ve arrived at this destination. We continued our trip to show you can travel ten countries within Europe on bikes without stepping on an aircraft.
But being already ahead of the readers I can tell you that this project is more demanding than we could have imagined. After being more than three months on tour we realised that there has hardly been a real rest day. If we were staying at a place more than one night, I was trying to catch up on this diary. So it was not a real pause either. At the end you can only do what time and energy allows you to do.
What we can say is that so far our own batteries were always exhausted earlier than the batteries of our bikes. I managed only once in the Picos de Europa to nearly empty the bike’s batteries in one single day.
But to give you some teasers what will be next:
The next country we reached was Portugal. We discovered the unknown Camino Miñoto Ribeiro. We went up north from there and crossed the Camino Frances once more to do part of the Camino Primitivo, and join the Camino del Norte in Asturias. We took the ferry from Santander to Portsmouth to reach our eighth country – the UK.
As we have to bike on we will try to find time to update the blog to write about our further adventures, so be curious how the “Less-is-more-Tour” continues.
Anyway, a daily reel is available on Facebook and Instagram.
