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I didn't let the crowds on the last 100km bother me, in fact I said to this man from the UK I was walking with that I wish could have experienced a walk like this with my friends when I was in high school. What a good way to bond with fellow classmates. Then I said, I wonder if they think it...
I finished my first Camino, the Frances June 26/23 and never really encountered this. The only thing I got asked about usually was were I was walking to that day, but not were I started from that day. Never got asked were I was to the next day.
Yes, went in June last year. Vast fields of green with red poppies growing and when a breeze comes up it all sways back in forth, quite mesmerizing and beautiful. Will be walking through the Meseta in June again this year, so looking forward to it.
I had expectations a few months before I left as I had planned this for 2 years. I am a chef so I had in my mind that I was only going to eat only "good Spanish food", no pilgrims meals. Have the preconceived notion that I would not like dormitory rooms before I even slept in one. Walking in...
I walked my first Frances May-June 2023. I was on my 5th day between Puente la Reina and Estella and I thought this is nice but I won't be back. But here I am, a new year and I already have a plane ticket back to Spain. I have 7 weeks booked so I have to decide Portuguese with some other smaller...
I booked my flight today for Madrid for 7 weeks with no game plan yet. Just wanted to wake up new years day with a plane ticket and know I'll be walking somewhere in the new year.
Yes, the main reason I want to walk the Camino Francés again is that I walked it in 32 days so that's an average of 25 km a day and I don't think I got to experience everything it had to offer in one walk. Places like Logrono and Leon and others have so much more to see than I could have...
Had to laugh at a travel to Spain commercial for getting people back to the camino. It shows a guy with all his hiking gear and backpack on and he's walking on a treadmill in his bedroom. Never thought about training like that, but whatever works. Also maybe put all your gear on and stand in the...
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