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This was my husband. So many thanks to all of my fellow pilgrims who stopped to help and to pray and to translate for me.
He was doing what he loved.
Thank you for the news article link.
Is that the one just left of the main road? I stayed there once and enjoyed the stay in the town because it was less crowded than Leon and there were several nice restaurant options. I think I remember the albergue had a nicely equipped kitchen...
NO! In some European countries, and in particular at Madrid, security personnel will confiscate any multi-tool, no matter how small. Over the past five or six years, I have lost THREE tiny Gerber pocket multi-tools with NO CUTTING BLADE.
The...
I've only been to one place that didn't provide a pillow (Grañon on the Camino Frances, actually an often recommended albergue, but you are sleeping on a mat - not even a mattress - on the floor). You can pretty much count on one.
Most albergues...
Just to note that all of these various "halfway" points are marking halfway between Roncesvalles and Santiago de Compostela. If you didn't start in Roncesvalles, it won't be halfway for you. It may be more than halfway, if you started further...
Ah! But in in Sahagun proper, between the Arco de San Benito and the Rio Cea bridge, there is another monument appearing to compete for the half-way honors! I attach a photo of handsome me posing beside it last October..
The muni in Berducedo on the Primitivo I stayed at has literally no railings on the top bunks. We were assigned the last two bunks, both top and one of them was literally tied with a cord to the handle on the window. Untying it caused the bunk to...
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