Join me on the Camino de Fisterra, a 90 km journey from Santiago de Compostela to Finisterre, the "End of the World." 🌍🌊
Experience breathtaking landscapes, quaint villages, and historic landmarks. Follow along for daily updates and photos! 🚶🏼♀️📸
🥾 Camino de Fisterra 🇪🇸 ℹ️ Stats - Day 1
Date: Sunday 24th September
Weather: hot & sunny ☀️ stunning weather.
From: Cathedral at Santiago de Compostela
Start time: 1.45pm
To: Negreira
End time: 6pm - bed made up by 6.08pm
Accommodation: Albergue Alecrín
Terrain: road & more roads.
🥾Miles: 13 ( total today 28.7)
🦶Steps: 27,802 (total today 59,148)
Total miles: 13/56 = 23% done ✅
💰Costs: €14 bed
Food resupply from the local garage. As the supermarkets are shut on Sunday. €7.70 - crisps, gf pasta, sweets, chocolate bar.
Fanta €1.50
Total 🟰 €23.20
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
Enjoyment: 9/10
Fatigue: 5/10
Ease of terrain: 4/10
Highlights - amazing to leave the city behind. In 10 mins you were out in the country side. So peaceful and calm. Much more my style!
Challenges - started to feel done in by 5.30pm ish. I was ready to stop!! I needed to
Rest and get in bed.
Needing to go and buy some food and cook the pasta.
🥾 Camino de Fisterra 🇪🇸 ℹ️ Stats - Day 2
Date: Monday 25th September
Weather: hot & sunny! ☀️
From: Negreira
Start time: 9.16am
To: O Logoso
End time: 5.08pm
Accommodation: private albergue - bottom bunk. Only 4 people in the room.
Terrain: road walking and past lots of farms
🥾Miles: 24
🦶Steps: 49,430
💰Costs: €3.40 gf cake & ice lolly
€14 private albergue
€12 - 3 course meal + white wine & extra dessert 🥳
Total €29.40 - I’m blowing straight through my €20 daily budget!
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
Enjoyment: 10/10 one of my favourite days on a Camino
Fatigue: 3/10 - tiredness is starting to kick in more towards the end of the day
Ease of terrain: 3/10 - pretty easy going. Rolling - a few ups and downs but noting brutal.
Highlights - incredible views. Amazing hostel & food at the end. Loving this Camino. So chilled & relaxed. Plus amazing weather also helps!! Fisterra tomorrow!
Challenges - left ankle feels a little sore. Plus I’m super close to losing my right toe nail. Which annoys me! I’ve walked over 1000 miles this year and had 0 issues with my feet - no blisters, no nothing. I wear flat back shoes for a corporate hospitality gig I worked and they messed my feet up!!!
🥾 Camino de Fisterra 🇪🇸 ℹ️ Stats - Day 3 - Final Day
Date: Tuesday 26th September
Weather: hot & sunny ☀️
From: O Logoso
Start time: 8.20am
To: Finesterra.
End time: 2.11pm - then ran downhill back to the town to buy my bus ticket and chill for a little bit.
Accommodation: private albergue in Santiago de Compostela
Terrain: road, gravel tracks & forested sections
🥾Miles: 19.7 - end of the day 25 miles
🦶Steps: 39,106 - end of the day 49,208
💰Costs: Bus from Fisterra to Santiago @4.45pm €7.70
Icecream (3 scoops) €5
Albergue Santiago €26
Wine 🍷 €2.70
Total 🟰 €41.40
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
Enjoyment: 9/10 - stunning weather and what a great way to finish the walk 🥳🥳🥳
Fatigue: 4/10 I’m starting to feel more and more tired - a rest day would be good. I wanted to start at 7.30ish today - but it just wasn’t happening. I needed more sleep 😴
Ease of terrain: 3/10 - no real struggles apart from the final 1.8k. Which was tough going in the heat and with the incline.
Highlights - did a little bit of running on the downhill sections. Finesterra is gorgeous- well worth visiting. Such a beautiful part of the world. Having time to chill in the sunshine before catching the bus back at 4.45pm. I treated myself to an icecream. Such a great day.
Challenges - starting the day in wet clothes - I’d washed them the night before and they didn’t dry! Plus I’ve been bitten again 🦟 - legs, arms & face - That was not fun! the final 1.8k was tough going. Ready for it to be over.
🥾Camino Finisterre (or Fisterra in Galician) 🇪🇸 ℹ️ Total Statsℹ️
Walking Days: 3
Rest Days: 0
Travel days: 1
Total: 4
From: 24th September to 27th September
Weather: Hot & Sunny ☀️
From: The Cathedral at Santiago de Compostela, Spain 🇪🇸
To: Finisterre and then catching the bus back to Santiago de Compostela, Spain 🇪🇸
Earliest start time: 8.20am
Latest start time: 1.45pm - 1st Day - starting after finishing the Camino Primitivo
Earliest end time: 2.11pm - final day - when I finished at Finisterre
Latest end time: 6pm - 1st Day - to be expected as I started so late and needed to cover a big distance to do the walk in 3 days
Longest time on feet: 7hrs 45 mins - day 2
Shortest day: 4hr 15 mins - Day 1
Number of stamps in my pilgrims passport: 4
Accommodation: albergues
Private: 3
Municipal: 0
🥾Total Miles: 57
Average daily miles: 19
🥾Total Km: 91
Average daily km: 30
🦶Total Steps: 116,338
Average daily steps: 38,779
💷💶Total Costs: £265 / €304
💷💶Average costs per day: £66 / €76
💷💶Total costs on the Camino - not including travel: £97 / €85
💷💶Daily costs: £32 / €28
💷💶Total Accommodation Costs: £47 / €54
💷💶Average Accommodation Costs: £16 / €18
💷💶Total Food Costs: £33 / €38
💷💶Average Daily Food Costs: £11 / €13
💷💶Travel Costs: £191 / €220 (£183 on flight ✈️ home)
💷💶Misc costs: £0 / €0
Shorter trips always end up being more expensive when you work out the averages. So it’s not the best representation.
*I will be doing another total stats post where I combine the 2 Camino’s together and that will be a clearer picture of what the costs were and where the money was spent.
I was trying to be more budget conscious on this trip and the ideal would have been spending approx €20 per day - but that didn’t happen on the final few days.
When you are tired and hungry, you end up paying for whatever the accommodation is which is available and you want/need to eat more food. Plus being gluten free does make it more expensive.
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
😀Total Enjoyment: 28/30 = 93% loved this walk - would highly recommend heading to Finesterra.
😫Total Fatigue average: 12/30 = 40% starting to feel more tired on the final few days
⛰️Total Ease of terrain:10/30 = 33% pretty easy going - not much challenges.
Challenges: I felt pretty tired towards the end, but that’s to be expected. Otherwise everything was as I expected it.
This was my 4th camino - 3rd of this year. I feel as though I’ve got the routines established and I know what to expect.
✨Highlights: Reaching Finesterra and seeing the sea - the beaches were beautiful - a stunning part of the world. Very easy to get the bus 🚎 back to Santiago and bus travel was a good price.
What Would I do differently?: I would have kept on waking and gone to Muxia as well and then walked back to Santiago to complete the loop! Otherwise it was a great way to end the trip.
I do wish it was easier and cheaper for me to get home!
❓Any thoughts/comments on what I’ve shared? Do you have any questions you want to ask me about the Camino? ❓
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