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    Scanning Credential and Laminating Compostela

    Hi Maurice, I agree entirely that such documents are meaningful, but may I belatedly suggest that lamination is NOT good for them. A friend is a curator in a museum and advises that a simple glass frame with a paper and cardboard backing is a much safer way to preserve the documents...
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    Astorga to Molinaseca

    I walked all of that last week-all good. The San Javier albergue near the cathedral is still closed but all else was fine. Snow at Foncebadon was interesting and many (including me) chose to walk down on the road edge because the path was very slippery. Strongly recommend Albergue de Santa...
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    Overcrowding in Santiago

    Oh Tinca, Love it!!!! Astute and amusing! If you were an Aussie we’d call you “a bit of a dag” and love you for it Digger
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    Cadiz Association

    Thank you Krystian.
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    Cadiz Association

    Hi, Does anyone have a current email address for the Cadiz Association supporting Via Augusta? Two attempts to cut & paste from their web page have failed. Thank you, Digger
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    Are you a hiker or a walker?

    Perhaps the appropriate verb is chosen for us by location or circumstance: I’ve rambled on the Yorkshire Moors and tramped the Milford Track, Hiked half the Appalachian, still hoping to go back. I’ve trudged up half the Munros, been trekking in Nepal Bushwalked in the Dandenongs where...
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    Which are the “wilder” (least paved, most rural) Spanish routes?

    Between Almeria and Granada in early May I met only 9 pilgrims over 8 days. The scenery was superb and the walking surfaces (outside the towns) were varied and interesting. Steep, even difficult at times, this route gave me the most intense personal joy of all my paths so far. Mozarabe was...
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    Pilgrims from Australia and the wonderful New Zealand

    Hi Sarah, Five trips to Spain and going again in March. The flight costs are what we pay for living where we live. There are no ways around that so we try to add value by tacking on other activities; a cruise, a road trip in a hire car, a visit to friends, etc. This does nothing to reduce...
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    Via Augusta - Apr '23

    Hi Kev & Kath, I'm planning to walk Via Augusta in March next year. I have no problem with long stages and I prefer the quieter paths. I haven't been able to find many albergues. (I have just contacted the amigos for suggestions) Did you have to use hotels/pensiones a lot? Thanks, Digger
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    Best book for my friends who aren't familiar with the Camino?

    Of the seven camino books in my own library that I enjoyed enough to buy, Jack Hitt's "Off The Road" remains IMHO the best all rounder. Humourous, inciteful and very well researched, I suggest that for group discussion it will fit the bill.
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    Hiking the Mozárabe from Almería: What to Expect with Riverbed Walking in Mid-late April

    It wasn't too bad in 2018. The river bed gets used as a road in many places and it was smoother than expected. Keep an eye out for vehicles and farm machinery approaching from behind. The views coming out of the river and up the mountain are absolutely fantastic
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    Have you been married a long time?

    After 48 years it seems to me that tolerance & forgiveness form the "glue". One being a little deaf and the other having less than perfect vision may also have helped. Hi R hope your tribe is all well. More info via PM if you need it.
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    The Camino will be waiting...Australians

    Good thought Kanga, Perhaps we can swap suggestions between locals on how to keep things ticking over. I'm lucky to be in Gippsland. Wilsons Prom, The Strzeleckies, and Ninety Mile Beach are all within cooee. Local bushwalking clubs abound and between intermittent spates of lockdown I've been...
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    Mozarabe needs hospitaleros

    Hi Raggy, I'm interested. Ditto to C Clearly questions. Plus how would a hospitalero enforce limits? Alboloduy is tiny and a long way (27k?) from the next town. I don't recall any private facitilies there. Digger
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    LIVE from the Camino Camino Levante - Occasional updates from a walker

    About smiles in Valencia: An extract from my log- 21 May 2018. At about 0730 the doors opened. I asked the chap for the office of the credencial stamper and he replied that he was the stamper but added he didn’t stamp anything before 1030. I asked politely why this was so and was told “It’s...
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