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  1. Gringazolana

    Plastic Storage Bins in Santiago???

    I used a large laundry bag that folds up pretty small.
  2. Gringazolana

    Best Salad in Pamplona

    I am not a fan of salads, but if you like vegetables please check out Sarasate vegetarian restaurant. The food is amazing and the proprietor is very nice. Even carnivores love the food there!
  3. Gringazolana

    Death of American pilgrim in Castromaior today

    So sorry for your loss. May your husband’s memory always be a blessing 🙏💐
  4. Gringazolana

    Portomarin Bridge Closure

    So you never put a donkey on your back? (From the article in gallego cited above). 🤣
  5. Gringazolana

    New Camino route identified

    I used to live near a podiatrist, Dr. Foote. 🤣
  6. Gringazolana

    Rough In Planning Support

    Your dad’s cell phone number is on the first page! 🤭
  7. Gringazolana

    Winging it freedom

    I’m a planner! 🤦🏼‍♀️ Sorry! Walking the Camino was the craziest thing I have ever done, for sure. Because I needed to have my pack transported, I had to have reservations. For me, the winging it was believing in myself and walking out my front door. My Camino planning only involved 6...
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    Looking for recommendations for lodging only.

    Hi there! I booked it myself, but I met several people who used Camino Ways (I think that is what it was called). I also remember passing a small tour bus that I believe had that name on the side. I was struggling along (uphill both ways, in the rain, you know probably barefoot and heavily...
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    LIVE from the Camino 2023 Camino FRANCÉS - a journey in photos and short videos

    These are those cows? 🤣
  10. Gringazolana

    LIVE from the Camino 2023 Camino FRANCÉS - a journey in photos and short videos

    Ummm them are some lady cows 🐄🤣 LOL (country girl here!)
  11. Gringazolana

    Steep up hill - downhill like Alto de Perdon?

    Gronze dot com shows elevation maps for each stage. Very helpful!
  12. Gringazolana

    Question: camino frances

    I did the Sarria to Santiago walk a few months ago and didn’t have a guidebook. But if you want one, there is a shop in Sarria that sells everything the pilgrim might need. I think it’s called Peregrinoteca. Anybody in the place where you’re staying the first night can direct you there. What I...
  13. Gringazolana

    Descent into Portomarin

    The sign was kind of blurry and washed out a couple of months ago. Fortunately, I could make out that the path to the left had the word “experto” next to it. Not my arthritic knees!! I went to the right and even that was ouchie. I talked to some who went left and they regretted it. Buen camino!
  14. Gringazolana

    The dreaded plantar fasciitis - just as I’m about to start…

    I hope you aren’t wearing zero drop shoes! Get professionally fitted for your shoes, get the expensive supplemental insoles, and I would also recommend compression socks. (Of course all the stretches are important too!) I have had scar tissue surgically removed from the plantar fascia on both...
  15. Gringazolana

    Best company for daily bag transport Sarria to Santiago?

    Put an AirTag in your pack! (When JacoTrans missed picking mine up one day I was able to tell them exactly where it was! Then I switched to Camino Cómodo with zero problems.)
  16. Gringazolana

    Elevation

    On your way downhill to Portomarín, take the RIGHT fork. The path to the left is for expert trekkers and/or crazy people! 🤪 Also, there is a section near Ligonde that has some rock-climbing downhill parts that had my knee (and the rest of me) screaming. Buen camino!
  17. Gringazolana

    Walking the Camino Francés in May, 2024

    I did everything myself, using a combination of the Gronze website and the Buen Camino and Wise Pilgrim apps. It was my first time in Spain and I was setting out with an injured knee, so I was nervous. Please don’t feel like you have to only stay in “the” towns everyone talks about. I met some...
  18. Gringazolana

    Camino prep

    This fat girl did it and so can you!! Take it slow and do shorter stages if you need to. Send your pack ahead of you need to save your knees. Buen camino!
  19. Gringazolana

    Rocky terrain from Cruz de Ferro to?

    This old lady wants you to be careful going down into Portomarín, and afterwards there is another piece around Ligonde that is a challenging downhill trek. Use your hiking poles and buen camino!
  20. Gringazolana

    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    Oh dear! But I can tell you that about 3 weeks ago there was a couple staying in the room next to me and they almost had to go OUT the window! They couldn’t get their door handle to unlock. It turns out that the manager had just replaced the door lock and one or two of the sliding barrels was...

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