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I walked from A Guarda (border Portugal/Spain) to Santiago from Dec 23 till Dec 31, 2023. It was very quiet until the route merged with the Portugués Central in Redondela. From Redondela on I guess there were about 20 to 40 pilgrims on the road...
In general restaurants and bars are open, but many grocery stores are not.
I eat neatly all of my meals in bars and restaurants while on the Camino, and I was always able to find somewhere to eat on Sundays on the Norte.
Spain produces a great amount of fruit and vegetables. You’ll have no problem, and you can pick up fresh produce from stores as you pass through/stay overnight if you want to whip up salads in kitchens (assuming you might be staying in places...
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.
Walk what you can at a pace which suits you best. You may not be able to reach Santiago this time, but there is often another year to finish it-- this is very common practice among Europeans. Or, as others have sugggested, start closer to...
Personally I'd try to walk what i could, even if I didn't reach the destination in one go.
Does your route/budget allow you to split stages? I'm not familiar with the route you're walking -is there an easier camino you could do instead?
Other...
Don't be too hard on yourself! Have you already booked accomodation? If not, there are enough options to do shorter stages from Porto. You could book the first few nights closer together and then just walk what you can each day and see how it...
The easy and obvious solution is to start closer to Santiago.
And I find that since my only "job" on the Camino is to walk from point A to point B that I can walk farther on the Camino than I can at home where I have a dozen other tasks that I...
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