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I like that.
As it is right now, the pilgrim office seems to discourage anyone who wants to take that route to do so - unless the Napoleon route is closed.
This year was the second time I noticed that.
I told them that I had would not walk the...
I was 75 when I walked to O Ceibero and i did not find it difficult. However, after walking for almost 4 four weeks from SJPP I was very fit for long climbs.
An alternate suggestion - walk the Camino Inglés, which you can do in less than a week's time. Then you don't have to choose between the start and the finish. 😊
https://www.gronze.com/camino-ingles
I have walked 5 caminos and never used the poles. However I am in my eighties and I worry that if I have a fall and break my hip it could prove fatal.
To help me with my balance I usually just find a stick to carry if the terrain is rough.
Hi yes definitely , I'm a English man I walked from Lisbon to Santiago in 2019 and I can't speak a word of anything but English.
You will be fine just learn the please and thank you.
It is my experience, having started both from Lisboa and Porto, that English is well understood and spoken in Portugal. I also, like you, speak some Spanish, enough to go easily by in Spain, but I didn't need my Spanish in Portugal at all.
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