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    Hurrying slowly from Cluny

    Margaret, Sending you all my best wishes, I hope you will have a fantastic camino! WIll follow you here, on the blog, and with thoughts and prayers. I'll contribute with the Pilgrim's Prayer of St Birgitta (of Sweden, 1303-1373): Lord show me the way and give me strength to follow it I've...
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    Camino Francés 2012 - do I need a guidebook?

    Hi tjz! Thanks for bringing this to my attention. It looks like a great map for topo overview, even though the scale makes it less useful for the actual hiking. I have ended up deciding to take the CSJ 2012 guide (115gr) as a guide book and travel companion, with additional info from the...
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    Iphone apps

    I am sure that more experienced pilgrims than me will have more info for you on this, but here are the ones I use for prepararing my camino, all free. If you read or plan to learn Spanish, the Eroski app is more or less a complete guide with itineraries, practical info and simple overwiev maps...
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    Availability of Gas

    This fall, I e-mailed the tourist information in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and asked them if it was possible to buy 100 or 200gr gas containers in St-Jean. They answered that it is available. Apparently, there is (at least) one very good outdoor store with all the hiking gear you would ever need...
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    Class of 2012

    Woa! :shock: David, I just tried this, and it was really, really scary! I read the text translated into machine English, and even though I know I've written it myself, I don't understand parts of it :? , and the rest just isn't - well, English... The words are there, but... Maybe my own...
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    Class of 2012

    Having now booked Orisson for September, I'm happy, excited - and somewhat terrified, to be honest! To all the fine people of this forum - thank you for being so supportive, inspirational and generous sharing your knowledge and experience. Elisabet
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    Camino Francés 2012 - do I need a guidebook?

    Thank you all for this really good and useful advice. I'll check out the Michelin Camino map/booklet, it seems to be very close to what I am looking for. I will now plunge into the Brierley, head first. I am very intrigued by the subtitle - A Practical&Mystical Manual for the Modern Day...
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    Camino Francés 2012 - do I need a guidebook?

    Falcon you are right, of course. I have checked my battered french Michelin maps. They were 1:150000, and have served me well, but mainly for biking, motoring and hiking along roads or well marked trails. They don't seem to exist for Spain. Plus, greater detail than that would actually be better...
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    Camino Francés 2012 - do I need a guidebook?

    Thanks, Josefine, will do! :D
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    Camino Francés 2012 - do I need a guidebook?

    That's exactly what I'm thinking, looking at them. Amazon.co.uk have Michelin maps 1:400000. I have used and been happy with those before. I believe it would take three to cover the entire Camino Frances - 571 Galicia, 574 Aragon-Catalunya and 575 Castilla y Léon/Madrid. It's bulk and weight...
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    Camino Francés 2012 - do I need a guidebook?

    I couldn't help myself, so here I am with the new edition Brierley (302g) AND the corresponding Maps (135g), which turned out to be a booklet. I will have to read them before I decide whether to get the CSJ as well for comparison, but I do have a question about maps. For practical purposes I...
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    Camino Francés 2012 - do I need a guidebook?

    Thank you John, this was really helpful. I think I might get the CSJ guide in January, get to know it and see how I like it, and then add notes, Evernotes/digital scans or printouts from all the other (great) sources I already have access to, if need be. Loads can be packed into the device with...
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    Camino Francés 2012 - do I need a guidebook?

    Hello everyone! I'm a rookie preparing to walk the Camino Francés next fall. Being a planning freak, I have spent the last three months reading most of this brilliant forum :D, following blogs and browsing sites on the internet, going through my local library for camino- or pilgrimrelated...
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    Trondheim (Nidaros) to Santiago de Compostela

    Thank you LK for sharing your pilgrimage in such an amazing and inspirational way! So much poetry in posts and pictures, I admire your courage and trust. I'm a newbie preparing for my first camino. Following you has given me a deeper, more complex and absolutely beautiful first impression of...
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    Class of 2012

    falcon and johnnie, Thank you for your sage advice. I will now with confidence continue my Camino. I believe the Frances next fall will, this time, indeed be the Way for me. It is kind of a spiritual exercise for a rookie like me to practise trust in the experience so many people on this forum...
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    Class of 2012

    Hello everyone, I thought I'd bring some Scandinavian flavour to this world-wide mix of pilgrims. My way of preparations and planning started on Sept 1st, when I committed to walking the Camino, hopefully in the fall of 2012. It's my first, and I am leaning towards the Francés, as I originally...
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    Spiritual Preparation

    Hi Jeff, First time poster as well.... :D What you found at some point is probably "A Closer Walk", a selection of bible readings for one year. It can be found on the same page as "Forty Days" mentioned above. I only just found it myself and have no feedback to give on the selection. In the...

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