camino people

Now that I'm home, I've been going back over my camino log, checking the place names where I slept, checking the kilometers, remembering what happened and how I felt.

I really like to know the names of the people I'm talking to, and I wrote most of them down. So I thought I'd make a little litany of place names and people names, just for fun:

train to Bayonne, taxi to St-Jean-Pied-de-Port
Bruno from Freiburg, CH; Giuseppe from Italy; Gudrun from Munich

1. St-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Roncesvalles: 27 km
Gabe, Giuseppe, Claude, Christian, Renate, Kim

2. Roncesvalles to Zubiri: 20 km
Giuseppe, Bruno, Renate, Gerda, José, Elsa, Mariaje, Pachi, Kim, Inma, Jacqueline, Nicole

3. Zubiri to Cizur Mayor: 30 km
Elisabeth, Inma, Giorgio, Gastone, Pietro, Umberto, Annie & Claude

4. Cizur Mayor to Puente la Reina: 20 km
Giorgio, Gastone, Pietro, Umberto, Di, John the van coffee guy, Inma, Jacqueline, Annie & Claude, Jill, Elisabeth & Maria Eugenia, Wolfgang, Kay, Fernando

5. Puente La Reina to Estella: 22 km
Raymond, Monique & Jean-Louis, Maria Eugenia, Elisabeth, Inma, Jill, Gary, Annette, Gabe, Di, François & Jean-Pierre, three Albertans

6. Estella to Los Arcos: 22 km
Di, Monique, Wolfgang, Kai, Fernando, Elisabeth, Maria Eugenia, Elsa, José, Jacqueline, Nicole

7. Los Arcos to Logroño: 28 km
three Albertans, Jill, Lydia, Kay, Fernando, Wolfgang, Oscar, Giorgio, Umberto, Gastone, Pietro, Günther and the Frankish male quartet, Inma, Rosa, Ricardo

8. Logroño to Nájera: 29 km
Wolfgang, Kay, Fernando, Oscar, Monique & Jean-Louis, Inma, Rosa, Ricardo, Gerda, Tony & Johanna, Chantal

9. Nájera to Santo Domingo de la Calzada: 21 km
Wolfgang, Kay, Fernando, Oscar; Ismael Gomez Sacristan (wine saint in Cirueña)

10. Santo Domingo de la Calzada to Belorado: 23 km
my camino brothers (Wolfgang, Kay, Fernando, Oscar); Elsa & José, Vanna, Marcella, Belen (hospitalera)

11. Belorado to Altapuerca: 30 km
camino brothers, Nathalie, Eduardo from Villafranca (pure water at the Montes de Oca), Inma, Rosa, Ricardo, Maria Eugenia, Elsa, José, Danielle & Michel, Edelgart

12. Altapuerca to Burgos: 20 km
camino brothers, Nathalie, Christian & Claude, Annie & Claude, Donald

13. Burgos to Hornillos del Camino: 20 km
Wolfgang, Josefa, Rosa, Lucy, Nathalie, 3 Albertans

14. Hornillos del Camino to Itero de la Vega: 31 km
Wolfgang, Gerda, Nathalie, Edeltraut (74 yrs old!), Nanna, Anne, Mary, Nina, 2 Quebeckers

15. Itero de la Vega, Carrion de los Condes: 34 km
Bernie, Nanna, Lim & Jean (Korea), Kay, Fernando, Oscar,
compañeros of Ricardos paella: Inma, Rosa, Ricardo, Abby, Alessandro, Felipe, José, Elsa, Santiago

16. Carrion de los Condes to Sahagun: 38 km
Oscar, Kay, Fernando; Chantal (Quebec), Daniel

17. Sahagun to Mansilla de la Mulas and Villarente: 37 + 6 km
Oscar, Kay, Fernando; Daniel
I started getting nervous about asking people's names when one person started winking at me and sitting too close to me after we introduced ourselves. So there are fewer names from here on.

18. Villarente to Leon: 14 km
Oscar, Kay, Fernando

19. Leon to Hospital de Órbigo: 31 km
Kay, Fernando, Oscar, angel from Vienna, Amadito, Michel & Danielle, hospitalera in San Martin del Camino, Fernando from La Rioja

20. Hostpital de Órbigo to El Ganso: 30 km
Astorgan guy with visions; Kate, Ange

21. El Ganso to Riego de Ambrós: 27 km
Kay, Fernando, Oscar, Kate, Michel & Danielle,

22. Riego de Ambrós to Cacabelos: 28 km
Kate, Ange, Stefan, Bernie, Christophe the Breton and his pals

23. Cacabelos to Trabadelo over Pradelo (camino duro): 20 km?
Kate, Ange, Christophe, two German women, Richard, HeJo, 4 Barcelona women

24. Trabedlo to O Biduedo (over O Cebreiro): 30 km
HeJo, Richard, 2 Australian women, blond Breton smoker, Ange (in bar at H. de Condesa), Sabine (Freiburg), Wolfgang (Köln), Jean-Marie


25. O Biduedo to Samos: 16 km
2 short French smokers, Nanna, K, F, O, Ange, Wolfgang and Sabine, Jean-Marie, John, Alison

26. Samos to Portomarin: 34 km
K,F,O, Edelgard, Nanna, Helga

27. Portomarin to Palas del Rey: 24 km
K,F,O

28. Palas del Rey to Árzua: 30 km
K,F,O, Edelgard; San Xulian hospitalero of 4 beds and Bach; Nanna, Alice

29. Árzua to Monte de Gozo: 35 km
K,F,O, Edelgard, Michel & Danielle, Christophe

30. Monte de Gozo to Catedral de Santiago de Compostela: 5 km
K,F,O, Edelgard
Reunion with the compañeros of Ricardo's paella (Carrion de los Condes) and many other pilgrims I met on the way.