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Hello, BP! It’s been a while. Glad to hear that you are getting ready to start another camino. I am sure you already know this, but there is a bunch of us who really enjoy following along on your caminos, so if you are inclined to post live with your adventures, we would love it!
Just to elaborate a bit on @C Clearly’s post. If you have received one of these messages, please look at the date on which it was sent.
If the date is around April 8 or 9, Ivar has taken care of it. His post, which @C clearly has linked to, explains how it happened and how he has fixed it...
The route that Paulo shows is an alternative that takes you up into beautiful mountains and through the little hamlet of Caminayo. There is a social center there, and I know some pilgrims have slept there on the floor, it’s about 32 km with 600 m elevation, which is doable for many. It also...
Paulo, I know we are bombarding you with scattered questions that are not in any sort of chronological order, so I apologize. But going back to your first days and the visit to the church of San Miguel, if there were sleeping accommodations available at the Monasterio de Zamartze, would you go...
Hi, @Paulo Arantes, Just wondering if you are plannng/hoping/thinking about going up to Beriain. @caminka talks about doing it. I think it’s about a 17 km round trip from Arbizu, and these wikiloc tracks show the route.
I have written to the monastery to ask about this. It seems like the only way for me to get up to San Miguel without having a really long stage. As I calculate it, it’s 23 to Irutzun from Pamplona, where there’s lodging. Then the next day about 14 to Zamartze, and from there about a 10-15 kim...
Thanks for all your posts, Filly, they will be helpful for the next forum member who decides to strike out on the Sagunto. I will admit those long stages are a real disincentive for me and my aging body, and I am extremely impressed that you seemed to sail right through some extremely long stages.
I am not sure if we had found these sites when we were doing the Viejo planning thread in covid confinement, but here are some things that might help with planning. I’m learning that in some places this route is called the “Ruta Pamplonesa del Camino Olvidado.”...
Forum members have also stayed at the rooms above Bar Mylo in Santibañez de la Peña. 979 860 294. This is closer to Guardo than Tarilonte, but if you are planning to walk the variante through Caminayo (highly recommended), you can then go from Santibañez through Guardo to Velilla and then have...
Oh, it would be wonderful to have a live report. I have started mapping things out several times, but always find that there are just so many choices that it’s kind of overwhelming to plot out.
I have been thinking that since I will be pushing 75 next year, I might be past the point where I...
I think the best option would be to buy one in the US and use duct tape to tape the adaptor plug to the US plug. I only use my coil in Spain or Portugal, so I just leave the plug firmly attached and it works great.
I’m wondering where you read or heard that, because there are lots of them sold on amazon.es and in Spanish ferreterías online - just search calentador por inmersion. Carrefour and Worten both sell them online, and I’d be very surprised if big chains were selling illegal products.
I re-watched your video, @Bjorts. Just beautiful photos. I think this is the single best piece of advice. If you walk the official route you will enter the canyon at a spot that is well beyond the church and well beyond its most majestic part. Take a taxi from San Leonardo!
When I walked...
Great news!
Did you have to call Portugal to speak with them? I see that @trecile had given a hint on how to do cheap calls.
BTW, when I was on the airline’s website, I saw that you can arrange a free stopover in the Açores. If you haven’t been there (or even if you have), that might be a...
Let’s face it, we are captives. I have seen no evidence that the airlines are at all sensitive to increasing complaints; in fact their customer service keeps getting worse! At least in Europe, the passenger protections are generous and strictly enforced. Not so much here in the US.
Climate...
Once again, here is an example of the format we ask people to use. Just three pieces of information and in this order.
September 24, @yukonwanderer (SJPP).
Doing the input manually is made SO much easier if we look at that information, scroll up to the calendar, and input it in exactly that...
I’m pretty sure you are talking about @CaminoDebrita, whose book is described here.
Deb hasn’t been on the forum for a while, but in the past she has been off for a while and then come back, so we can hope that’s the case again!
This post is very old and very out of date. The albergue became inaccessible to pilgrims on the Camino years ago. The church simply refused to let pilgrims in, that’s my understanding, and in the opinions of many who know far more than I do, with that they breached their agreement — the...
I hesitated when I heard him say that he added 5 kms to his day by taking the new squishy marshy route. Because his tracks say that this new route is “only” 37.66 kms. So it looks like the new route doesn’t add much at all.
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