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Now feels like an opportune time to remind everyone that the crowds on the Caminos travel in great big waves. For every panicked pilgrim riding the crest and worrying about beds, there is another down in the trough wondering what all the huff...
You are getting plenty of encouraging advice. I have always found Barcelona great.
Just to say the bus service to the airport is very efficient and quick and every half hour or possibly more frequent during the day. You need to get a different...
This recommendation makes little sense to me. The Camino is an excellent trip for a first journey to Europe. Any halfway competent adult can handle the complexities!
Yes, and if the OP was still learning to walk and had never left their house...
Half the posts I read online about the Caminos seem to be designed to make something essentially straightforward seem enormously complicated and difficult! As if the authors want applause for having achieved some miraculous feat beyond mere...
This again?
I'd say that the Camino can be an excellent first trip to Europe since you are in the company of so many others who are doing the same thing - everyone supports each other.
My own experience in 2017 was that, quite correctly, Roncesvalles were admitting pilgrims in the order in which they had arrived (starting at 14.00). Given it was lunch time I opted to share a taxi with two girls needing first aid at Burguete and...
Thanks so much for your account. So many members or viewers just solicit feedback or view threads without engaging again. I can feel the discomfort in the weather, and I personally would have stopped at Valcarlos although, I expect it was busy...
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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.
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