Day 32 St. Olav’s, August 16th, 16.5km, Vikhammer > Trondheim The walk into Trondheim. We ate breakfast and packed up camp for the final time on this trail. We walked together in silence for a …
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St. Olav’s: When Nature Calls
Day 24 St. Olav’s, August 8th, 22km, Kong Carl Johans Klev > Vuku True Love Digs a Cat Hole My first thought upon waking, before I even opened my eyes, was “it’s 12.5 miles to …
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Day 17 St. Olav’s, August 1st, 20km, Hälleberg > Mörsil HALFWAY! The next morning, we woke up to the sound of horses snorting and stomping at us. It was a scary sound to wake up …
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Day 15 St. Olav’s, July 30th, 15km, Backen > Värmon Because we stayed so long visiting Goran, our generous host from the night before, it was late when we finally got on the trail. We …
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Day 8 St Olav’s, July 23rd, 16km, Lake Stor-Harrsjön > Bräcke Today’s walk was shorter after the long distance we covered the day before. It was a nice walk, and we spotted a sign from …
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Day 6 St. Olav’s, July 21st, 24km, Rombäck > Borgsjö On our walk from Rombäck to Borgsjo, we walked through fields overflowing with wildflowers. It’s beautiful, and I am surprised to see so many flowers …
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A New Symbol Day 1 St. Olav’s, July 16th, 24km, Sundsvall > Matfors We cooked a breakfast of eggs, toast, and coffee, then hard-boiled some eggs for snacking on the trail later. Then we packed …
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A New Way At the bus station in Stockholm, I waited with our packs while Andy searched for some fast food to take on the long bus ride. Contrary to what many foreigners think …
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Onward, pilgrims! When we boarded the bus from Muxía the next morning, it was the first time in 52 days that we moved faster than walking speed. Everything felt so fast. We took the bus …
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To remain unchanged is unthinkable Our 40th day on the Camino! We woke up and hit the trail, trying to mentally prepare ourselves for the swarms of pilgrims we knew we would be meeting in …
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