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Please, am I mad to contemplate the following combo:
Norte: Biarritz-Bayonne-Irun-Santander (via Bayonne to get my legs going)
Santander - train to Leon
San Salvador - Leon to Oviedo
Primitivo - Oviedo to SdC
Mad in that I might actually be found curled up in a ball, and crying to the Camino...
After doing the Camino Portugués Central (loved it), then Sarria to SdC (hmmm), I’ve very excited to start the Invierno today as my final Camino of this trip before heading home.
Anything the Invierno lovers (and anyone else, of course) would like me to check out and report back on?
So yday I met this absolute legend, Jose Antonio Garcia, yday evening at my accommodation in Ponte de Lima.
https://www.odditycentral.com/news/the-pilgrim-man-spends-eleven-years-walking-107000-kilometers-in-the-name-of-faith.html
The article was from 2016, but believe me, he’s still walking...
Set out from Porto yday morning, having stayed a couple of nights in Gallery Hostel in Cedofeita (highly recommended).
The walk out of Porto is what it is - leaving any major city tends to mean kms of traffic heavy roads. But I rather enjoyed passing through the various neighbourhoods, and...
Hi Invierno experts
Am considering walking the Invierno next month. Looking through the many interesting threads, I noted that @Betterisgood was unable to get into the albergue back in Feb last year and had to walk on to Las Médulas.
I’d be getting a train or coach from SdC arriving Ponferrada...
As mentioned in a couple of other threads, after setting out from SJPP last week in Sep, my Camino was cut short in Rabanal del Camino due to a fall and a broken wrist. As I am back home and getting on with the healing, I want to plan a Dec Camino, start week dependent on how quickly my wrist...
I’ve have been dealing with plantar fasciitis in my right foot for a little while now…and yday it decided to treat with me with a double whammy to my left foot too. My plan had been to carry my full pack from day 1 and stay 80/20 albergues/hostels. Now I‘m thinking to ease in with pack transfer...
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