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Part of the experience of the camino is letting go of control and seeing what happens. You have so much infrastructure on the Frances that you will never find yourself in a situation where you'll be out on the street. Those unplanned situations...
We have had to use a taxi on a few occasions (stolen phone, no place to sleep, trail closed due to fire, etc). As mentioned above, we simply asked someone at the albergue or a bar to help us and within 10 minutes were whisked off in an...
This is all great advice and I truly appreciate the guidance and opinions that everyone has offered in this thread. I value your recommendations and realize they come from your experience and from a position of good will. Thank you all for...
Hi Steve,
You came to the right place for feedback! I find this tool very useful for "planning." https://godesalco.com/plan/frances
For fun, I used your time constraints and came up with an itinerary that might work for you if you walk 20km -...
You can cancel those reservations and make new ones. Or my preference would be to reserve the first two to three nights, then see how you are doing. You can then book a day or two ahead. But since you are concerned about covering the distances...
I think that is a counsel of perfection - a good idea in principle but probably impossible to achieve in practice! I'm pretty sure that all of us who have walked a Camino approached it for the first time with some expectations even though they...
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