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Your friend is partly right. For hiking lovers there is so much more then the Spanish caminos. The Alps. the Pyrenees, the little long distance trails (GRs) in France, the beautiful trails in Britain and Ireland, the countryside of Romania, the Via Francigena. For some camino addicts it will be...
In New Hampshire I once called the emergency services while my telephone was almost dead, as we were lost in the upcoming darkness. The operator told us to stay on the same place as they could see my exact location in the few minutes that were left in the phone. After 3 hours two members of NH...
Two website can give the answer to many questions.
The German railways have a website where you can find all passenger trains running in Europe, including destination Saint-Jean-Pied-le-Port.
https://www.bahn.de/p/view/index.shtml
The buses running between main Spanish cities, you can find...
The happy and obvious end. She could not phone her family and they worried too much.
http://www.1limburg.nl/vermiste-wandelaarster-had-alleen-geen-bereik?context=topstory
Has anyone seen Diny Patelski (65) from Voerendaal in the Netherlands? Dutch media report that she is missing after leaving SJPLP on 12 May.
http://m.telegraaf.nl/article/25798159/limburgse-bedevaartgangster-spoorloos
The only training I do before a long distance walk is doing a few walks of 20-25 kilometers in the weeks before the trip. If you are not used to 20 km, do first a few walks between 12-16 kilometers. The second sound advice is: don't make the first stages too long. It takes a few days to get used...
There are other nice walks not far from the TMB, like the Percorsi Occitani and the Valle Varaita Trekking in Piemonte (both about 12 days), the GR5 in France, or if you want to stick with Caminos, the GR65 from Le Puy.
The TMB I've done two times, the Camino never. But from what I know this are two very different walks. The TMB is a splendid mountain hike. But in the TMB you have climbs of 1.000 meters and more, and small paths, sometimes through snow and scree. To do the complete TMB, also with the full...
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