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  1. reg2450

    Spain topo map?

    the Briley book has contour guides for each stage
  2. reg2450

    Hospitalero at Grañon.

    One of my favourites..... loved Granon
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    Comment by 'reg2450' in media 'Burgos'

    I loved Burgos too
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    Making a Brew - should I Bother?

    Tis true: I missed my beautiful morning tea particularly - not to mention afternoon and evening. I had taken a few tea bags, but not as many as I would have had I known how very difficult TEA was to get in Spain. I confess to everyone here now that I crossed over and became a chronic Cafe con...
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    Please help with my packing list - taking dresses - am i daft?

    when in doubt - keep it out. I wished I'd bought things when I got there. They were actually cheaper than in Australia! The sleeping mat I used for picnics and some mid-day lay downs, but eventually it did go the way of all others. I'm sad about that sometimes... but the first one (my daughter...
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    My packing list -- is it good? Would love feedback!

    I can't stress the value of a sarong as pillowcase, skirt, bandanna, carry bag, scarf, ..... the best, best thing in my pack! Plus.... I became quite paranoid about what was going to happen to my feet reading the comments on blisters..... I didn't train, I didn't improve my stamina... I was 50...
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    Packing list review, por favor

    great list! Ditch the mascara, squash more tea bags in (no... they weren't everywhere). Instead of a pillowcase, take a sarong - seriously the best travel friend in the universe: pillowcase, bandana, skirt, container... it could do no wrong). Bien Camino
  8. reg2450

    the 10 year old legend, keeping her old mama company on the Francis

    No cold beer in between either
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    the 10 year old legend, keeping her old mama company on the Francis

    Georgia flipped out when I told her we only had to walk from Sarria to get the Compostella. The European pilgrims were most impressed that we were walking from France.... when Georgia worked out that many people walked the Camino 'piecemeal' - 2 weeks at a time or a chunk one year and some more...
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    the 10 year old legend, keeping her old mama company on the Francis

    Kids keep it real don't they?
  11. reg2450

    the 10 year old legend, keeping her old mama company on the Francis

    Spain will forever be in our hearts. We will return. We must. Though I was very keen to start up my own spiritual pilgrimage in Australia for those of us who want to walk with God for a while and hate the 30 hours of flying ;)
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    the 10 year old legend, keeping her old mama company on the Francis

    I agree. WA is amazing. If I didn't love Coffs, I'd go to WA and we are at extreme opposites of the country - there's a whole heap in between ♥
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    the 10 year old legend, keeping her old mama company on the Francis

    From Georgia: YOU NEED GOOD BOOTS!! Hope you've broken them in!! I had Mongrel Boots and loved them. Don't walk further than you really want to. Everyone will love you because you're different. Bring warm clothes - it's cold even in Spring. Pray. someone's listening. Good luck. Let me...
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    the 10 year old legend, keeping her old mama company on the Francis

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    the 10 year old legend, keeping her old mama company on the Francis

    It's amazing how the Camino gets under your skin. I was aware of it for 20 years before I started thinking I would do it too. I have grandchildren who want to do it with me. Now to ask God about how we'll get that happening..... It's the photos and the cameraderie, the friendships and the...
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    the 10 year old legend, keeping her old mama company on the Francis

    You're right. Priceless
  17. reg2450

    Keep your head up, keep your heart strong!

    I held myself together a lot through my pilgrimage, but when my ten year old daughter, Georgia handed over her passport and I heard that satisfying whump and they handed her her Credential..... I wailed like an Italian grandmother.... I knew I couldn't afford to be indulgent like that in a...
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    the 10 year old legend, keeping her old mama company on the Francis

    Because I was a control freak (but cured of that since the pilgrimage) I put 3 years of planning into The Way. I was always going to take Georgia, but I had to wait for a good age where she may not flip out at the prospect of walking 30km in one day (at times). I told her that once she can...
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    the 10 year old legend, keeping her old mama company on the Francis

    Thank you all so much. It was the best bonding experience. That bloody mountain at the beginning was near the end of us, particularly as I carried her bag as well as mine, so she could dance and laugh (which stopped somewhere 3kms from the top). But we both danced and laughed on the way down...
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    the 10 year old legend, keeping her old mama company on the Francis

    She was 10. I turned 50. Everyone said I was a nut. I believed in her and she believed in me. So we did it. 800kms, at sometimes 5kms a day. I remember one young guy looking at me in a bar and then to Georgia, then back to me and saying: "what? couldn't you get a babysitter?"

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