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    Alternatives to walking if injured

    I second that. I gave up a Camino once and it still rankles. It's life, it's meant to hurt. Santiago or bust. It's the only way.
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    Alternatives to walking if injured

    Check Decathlon Rockrider series, tough cheap hybrid bikes. Buy and sell at the end, far cheaper than renting.
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    Alternatives to walking if injured

    You can use luggage transfer, or use a backpack, but it's better to use a rear rack with a pannier bag attached to each side. You can ride with a poncho, a rain jacket, or both. Albergues have safe storage for bikes, inside or outside, and you can secure the bike with a lock.
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    Alternatives to walking if injured

    I think a bike might be the answer. I had knee pain for years and it used to surface when I walked the Camino, but since I took to the bicycle it's gone away. I think the strengthening of the knee muscles helps it. Knee pain varies, of course, but yours might be the same. You wouldn't be...
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    Social anxiety on the camimo

    In the past one of the main reasons for people to go on pilgrimage was to be healed, in body or mind. It still works. I met a man in Burgos at one of the sessions common in Donativos where pilgrims sit in a circle and talk about their reasons for doing the Camino. I noticed how sad and angry...
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    Social anxiety on the camimo

    In my opinion on the Camino you meet the people you're meant to meet, angels, legends, family friends, yourself. The Camino provides and decides.
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    I did it- and feel like a winna!

    What a beautiful post, the right stuff in spades.
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    Did it make a difference

    Yes, yes and yes. I don't think I'd have made it without the Camino.
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    Cancelling Camino - Soliciting Advice

    Use a bike . . . and do the Meseta. Or go all the way to the Dark Side and use an ebike. It's not the same, but it'll do, and it beats hell out of staying home. Good luck
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    A Camino Planner

    Well done to create such a useful resource. What I'd like to see is an app that helps pilgrims to find Catholic mass on the Camino. I wish I had the skill to create one myself. It'd make a big difference to bible-bashers like myself
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    Bar Etiquette

    One of the pleasures of the Camino is the intersection of so many often mutually bewildering cultures and anthropologies. Then of course the plethora of foreigners are all in the same position in relation to Spanish culture and its myriad regional variants ... Returning glasses to be bar is...
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    Bar Etiquette

    In my experience bar staff consider the practise of returning cups to the bar mildly eccentric but appreciate the gesture of respect involved.
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    Walking with headphones?

    Permit me to provide reassurance on the matter of headphones and cyclists. Like many things in life, it looks dangerous but it really isn't. It's like when you cross the street in traffic; you know that the drivers know what they're doing and will be aware of you and avoid you, so you don't...
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    Walking with headphones?

    I can see your point ... the headphones/no headphones discussion must indeed seem trivial, and the passions it raises absurd. I can't agree with your last point, however, because I am very curious about individual opinions, particularly about matters that are none of my business. And I think...
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    Belgian royals walking another part of the Camino

    I stayed in a fine albergue once run by a South African and a Dane who loved the Camino and ran the place together during the season. They were both great cooks and enjoyed assembling a bunch of walkers in the evening for good food and conversation. He liked to sit on his veranda in the...
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    Walking with headphones?

    Confession time, and if you have feathers prepared to find them ruffled. I use a small but powerful Bluetooth speaker most of the time. I do this for several reasons: I like music; the beat helps me to cycle and distracts me from the pain and the dark thoughts; loud music is far more effective...
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    New mobile confession booths from Sarria

    A great idea, but far too late; Mammon is now the presiding deity of the Camino, as He is everywhere else on earth. It is to Him we must now confess our failure to sufficiently gratify ourSelves. O tempora ...
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    Walking with headphones?

    I've noticed that many people who walk the Camino experience irritation with the behaviour of others, in the matter of music or otherwise. Imo this is a not a bug of the Camino, it's a feature. Why would Westerners who come from a culture in which "hell is other people" and who holiday in the...
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    Bar Etiquette

    The second bar principle is a good one in most places, but not I think in the instance above. The Bodega in Moratinos is a fine place and has excellent food, but it's not really a bar as such. The first bar, the Hostal Albergue Moratinos, also has great food and it's one of the best bars...
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    For sale albergue in Frómista

    I've stayed in your albergue many times and it's a wonderful place, all I can say is all the very best and thanks for the memories.. ☘️

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