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I too favour an umbrella, when usable from a strength-of-wind standpoint.
If wet weather settles in, I buy a €12 type - which seem to be generable available and can be a welcomed parting gift at a bar or shop at the Camino’s end - or if there is...
Bradypus in post#21 rightly included pigs.
The only time that an animal of any kind on Camino has truly scared me was in 2016 and also on the VdlP….the difference being that it was a pig - actually a fairly large herd/“collective nounfull” of...
Parts of the Via de la Plata cross the vast dehesa enclosures with cattle, pigs and sheep. Nothing in the article suggests that the pilgrims had wandered off the marked path. But it would be wise to steer clear of cattle with calves as much as...
Thank you for this and for the info that you have. The responses to you had wandered off-topic a bit, but yours and Peregrina2000’s replies are most helpful - thank you again.
I’ve walked the section beyond Astorga 9 times in the past over the...
Hi Chris—I didn’t receive any responses to my question about Carracedo. I did look it up online: https://www.turismocastillayleon.com/es/arte-cultura-patrimonio/monasterios/monasterio-santa-maria-carracedo. It looks beautiful and appears to have...
I have never been to this monastery, but it looks like it would be a beautiful place to wander around. If I’m ever back on the Francés, I would love to go there, so thank you for the information!
Wikiloc has a route from Ponferrada to...
I’m curious about this, as I’ve never taken the detour.
Are there any views on making the detour after Camponaraya to visit Monasterio de Carracedo and then rejoining the main route again? Is it worth it? …and is it a road route from the main...
The Frances is a wonderful route, still, I believe.
It's the one I always suggest for a first time Pilgrim.
It has an energy that seems to come to us through the ages and the millions of souls who have passed along it.
That energy will always...
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