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    walking part of the camino frances and staying in hotels....

    Hey Lex! Enjoy your Camino in your own way, be mindful of others needs and smile a lot! If I were EVER (and I wont!) to be doing another Camino I would certainly take the option of having my luggage trucked ahead and carrying a daypack, as well as having hotels all booked in advance. I am lucky...
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    I would have done someting different than the Camino.

    An interesting thread. Shaman was pretty emphatic (to say the least) in his criticisms of the Camino, but (as has been said) has every right to express those views on an open forum. Carol and I completed our Camino on May 21st. I found the "perceived and romanticised Camino" to be very...
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    Vegetarian albergues/restaurants on the Camino Frances

    Cedros restaurant in Santiago (which sadly we only found on our final evening!) is EXCELLENT and has plenty of vegetarian options. The cuisine is Thai and is tasty, wholesome and well cooked. I'm not vegetarian, but will always happily eat a vegetarian meal when Carol and I visit a vegetarian...
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    Vigo, The Experience

    G'day! We completed our camino on May 21st and as our flight home to OZ was not until June 6th had a period of time to "fill" We visited the travel agency near the pilgrims office and through them arranged an itinerary that took in Fisterra, A Coruna, and Vigo. Coming into Vigo by rail on a grey...
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    It's Different This Year

    We are unable to choose who walks the path with us. Our fellow walkers may not always be whom we would like to be walking with, this is not their responsibility or ours. The point is to make the Camino an experience that you will remember for good reasons. Our Camino completed in May of this...
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    It's Different This Year

    Nice positive post! Lovely to read! An honest assessment of the Camino without surrendering to despair. I found your post most refreshing! Thank you Marigold! :D
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    It's Different This Year

    Hi Annie! Buen Camino! My wife Carol and I completed our Camino in Santiago on May 21st. This was our first (and only) Camino and at the conclusion of the journey we both felr mixed emotions. Relief at having overcome the tyranny of distance and discomfort, and elation at the thought of...
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    What makes you come back to the Camino?

    Thanks for that LTfit, I hope that my comments here were not seen as "demeaning" and if any of them were, then I am sorry, it was never my intention to offend/demean anyone, just offer another point of view. Buen Camino! Dave :D
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    A great place to stay at Villafranca Montes de Orca

    Hi Folks and Buen Camino! :D Just thought I'd share this piece of info with you regarding accomodation at Villafranca Montes de Orca. Carol and I had walked through some pretty awful weather on the way to Villafranca and were pretty much "done" as we entered the village we passed a small bar on...
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    Give Hornillos a miss if you can

    Hiya Folks! Buen Camino! Having just got back to OZ I thought I'd let folk know of our experience at Hornillos on May 1st. My Wife and I left Burgos in the morning and arrived in Hornillos at around 2:30pm. We knocked at the door of the Casa rural and got no reply (apparently nobody answers the...
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    What makes you come back to the Camino?

    The Camino had been on my "to do" list since 1992 when a dear poet friend of mine read out a piece he'd written about his experiences as a pilgrim back in the late sixties/early seventies. I will die happy knowing that I completed the pilgrimage, though the 227kms from Fromista to Ponferrada...
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    What makes you come back to the Camino?

    Hi katiawt! I may have given the impression that I'm "anti-camino" or trying to discourage folk from doing it, I'm not. I'd never for a second ever try to discourage anybody from taking it on. I simply said that the camino was a one-off for ME, it was WAY too tough on me emotionally. I'm...
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    What makes you come back to the Camino?

    Sending best wishes and hopes for your next camino Camillis! ENJOY! You make out a great case for it! An opportunity to drop out of the rat race of life should always be taken, and I found it to be great not to hear all the bad news on TV/radio, however, I missed my family so much and felt so...
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    Camino Blues

    SUCH an interesting thread! I came to it expecting a totally different type of "camino blues" being talked about. Carol and I did our Camino April-May of 2013 and experienced "camino blues" of a totally different "variety". For us, the tyranny of distance, being parted from our loved ones SO far...
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    What makes you come back to the Camino?

    Thanks Pieces, appreciate that :)
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    What makes you come back to the Camino?

    "nowhere" Pieces? I'm lucky enough to have found such a place and it's called "home". I did the camino from April 11th through May 21st this year, and could NEVER shake the longing to get back here to our family and friends. It was an unforgettable experience (for many and varied reasons) but...
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    What makes you come back to the Camino?

    An interesting thread. Good on anyone who can do this walk for a second time. We did it once, it was ENOUGH! Buen Camino! Dave
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    Just completed our camino

    Gday folks! Buen Camino! (and all that sort of stuff!) At LAST! we are home! We are now back here in OZ and so happy to have returned to family and friends. The Camino was the experience of a lifetime, and I'll never regret the decision to embark on the "way". Would I do it again? Not in this...
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    Cyclists and pedestrians

    Having just returned from our camino, I have to say that (AT TIMES) some cyclists were less than courteous to other "camino users", but for the vast majority of the time we received a warning from them. let's not get too precious about it folks, some of we walkers have no room to talk about...
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    To camera or not to camera

    G'day Folks! :D What an interesting discussion! My feeling is that with so many lightweight cameras around now it makes sense to have one available. My camera has a case that can be attatched to the straps of my pack for easy access should a photo opportunity present itself. There again, should...

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