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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...
The goto website for 2nd hand gravel and mountain bikes is pinkbike.com, which started in 2000. Google pinkbike gravel, then select the top listed link. As of this writing, pinkbike has 146 webpages of gravel bikes and their components available...
I would do the former, but not necessarily the latter. I say this because, around the time of my first Camino, I did something similar, carrying a photocopy of my passport in case I lost it (emailing it to myself or saving a scan online wasn't a...
The Guardia Civil returning things? My how the world has changed 😊. I don’t suppose there’s much point in asking if they’ve found the small bundle of peseta they relieved me of in 1969?
For those who wonder how safe it is to wander the Camino -...
I learnt something in this area lately.
Some Spanish friends visited Aotearoa New Zealand recently and they told me that they were deliberately having an unplanned trip.
They brought a dice with them and each morning they made a list of...
Hello pilgrims. Just a quick heads up to potential users of this ATM machine: Grab the cash as soon as it comes out of the machine, and not moment later, or the machine retracts the bills and you're left with one big hassel to rectify the...
I started from the Biarritz lighthouse last year. I had spent the night in Bayonne, and took the train to Biarritz, then a bus to the lighthouse. The distance walked was about 13 miles.
Here are some pictures from that day
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