The Camino del Norte follows the coast of Spain from Irun to Santiago de Compostela. It is approximately 800 kilometres (or 500 miles) and should take about 5-6 weeks to complete. On average, I will be walking about 28kms per day – but each day is completely different. The map that we will be following is below (click to zoom in):

As I am incredibly unfit and not ashamed to tell everyone, I have spent the last few months training with my boyfriend (who is incredibly fit). I’ve been using S-Health on my Samsung Galaxy to track my steps, distance and water drunk every single day. I’ve been trying to do between 8-10kms per day, with massive walks on the weekend.

Last weekend I walked a total of 35 kilometres over Saturday and Sunday. Today (being Saturday), I somehow walked 30 kilometres – taking the Merri Creek Trail through to The Yarra Trail and into the city.

I bet you think it looks easy, huh? Well, you’re wrong!

It was hard.

Right now, I am completely and utterly exhausted and I’m not sure if my feet will be able to carry me to the toilet. However, I must somehow move, because I am going out to dinner (terrible mistake, definitely don’t make dinner plans after walking for almost 7 hours – yep, it took me that long).

Now, to the good parts of the walk.

The Merri Creek trail is actually pretty great, all of the bicycles-riders ting their bells while passing, there’s a zillion cute kids, great spicy smells from Ceres and the best part – walking past the Collingwood Children’s Farm.

The below photo was taken around Northcote – pretty psyched, feeling great and we were making good time:

I will feel proud of myself tomorrow, when I look back at what I achieved, right now I’m in a world of pain. I just hope that when we do the Camino, that I will be able to stick with it and finish it.

Until next time, buenos noches,

Miss Adventure