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I walked the Camino in September 2023 after 2 hip replacements less than a year earlier - one in October 2022 and the other in January 2023. The best thing I ever did. No problems and completely pain-free.
Good to read your response @Anne&Pat and @Dres I hope your eventual surgery and rehabilitation run smoothly so that you may return to Spain to walk another Camino.
I am posting as a day 16 post-op hip replacement patient who happens to also be a...
Sanabres is lovely with plenty of accommodation except for one 30 km stage after the monastery at Oseira. Blessings and good fortune for Easter: pilgrim-only albergues will have beds.
Buen Camino
I don't know where you are, without going to the other social media accounts.
The accommodation situation is mainly insane in popular destination towns for non-pilgrim travellers, especially toward the end of Holy Week. If you are staying in...
A couple days ago I started the Camino Madrid from Segovia. Some of you may recall that I posted a few months ago looking for a relatively flat Camino to test out my body to find out if I could make another try on the Camino Frances where I had...
Thank you. This does not appear to be exactly like what I am seeing on the Gronze map. If you would be willing to share your GPS and/or map in greater detail, that would be great!
Hi Elle, walked it on 12 May 22 and captured the track on map my run. Just followed the arrows and it was a lovely walk beside the river. The climb up the hill followed a track that was flowing like a river in large parts and annoying small flies...
There were two that meant a lot to me. The Ignaziano, from Loyola to Manresa, was a much more difficult camino than the Frances. It was not our first and we knew what to expect and how to deal with the challenges. When we finally arrived in...
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