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Start as early as you can and have breakfast along the way. Transferring a pack sometimes will help take in the surroundings even more especially later in the walk, and arrive fresher.
GO down to the Cathedral at about 10 pm and directly opposite beneath the portico you may hear the costumed Spanish troubadours ensemble sing and play. Great group and always a great concert and fun. They play there very often. You could well meet some of your walking friends there among the...
Having done both the welcome birdsong and frogs croking etc..all missing later In the year- just Erie silence. Much more early and late daylight with longer spring/ summer days makes it better for me.
The story in this book is reprised in a super BBC documentary where they revisit the and compare in pictures and video 50+ years later with his original journey through Spain . It is part of a super trilogy on his life. He was England's poet laureate for some years..look it up on BBC archives...
We are all walkers/ pilgrims and there is generally great mixing and comraderie between all ages.and nationalities. I have been on many Camino paths and been helped and got on with all ages. People can be very honest and open with like minded strangers and some become genuine freinds. Be...
I went from Dublin midday to marvellous Billbao with aer lingus. Guggenheim gallery etc is there.. A morning train goes from there to Sahagun by lunchtime. I walked on from there to Finistere. I found it was the most economical way to go on the second half of my Camino in 2015. Buen Camino.
Additional thoughts to other replies, I found Sept eerily quiet in the mornings, but June had great birdsong -frogs croaking and lots of small mammal activity in the countryside and much more daylight as well as more flowers inbloom etc. Paths are drier by September and harvest though. Both...
I think Lugo is now considered less than the 100 km required for the Compostella. So if that is a consideration you should start your Camino somewhere before Lugo and avoid dissapointment in SDC. This is mentioned in other parts of this forum. Check it out. Good luck
Hi, the Caminos mentioned in your last paragraph would be very suitable. The 20 days would suit these. They are quieter and more varied and challenging but beautiful. Be realistic on the length of stages in the heat and inclines. You will join the Frances only for the last 2 days and so avoid...
When i add this years Camino an error message tells me it must be less than 100 characters and does not save. Why? This happens when I add only 2017. Could someone advise please
Boorish behaviour is boorish behaviour, full stop. The spraza was empty at that time of night bar the troubadour/audience group. The cheerleaders were encircled by hundred ++ of chanters so conversation was out. I have hundreds of happy events on my many Caminos, this was just one bad one.
Yes! thats why i bothered to write the post. I deal with teens all the time as a teacher. When they broke up the concert the musicians went the cheerleaders led them chanting from the square.
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