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My goodness, so many encouraging replies! Thank you all, for for your advice and links.
If I can get the time away this year I will do some kind of Caminetto to get a feel for it and bus around a bit too, to get an overview of the rest.
I have heard not much English is spoken along the route...
Hopefully, the buses will get me to the potential overnight stops and give me a chance to see these little albergues for myself. An approximate view of the terrain will be enough for me to go on. I don't like too many surprises, and never like shocks at any time.
Thanks for the welcome, Caminando.
I don't want to go down the hotel route for certain - not much of a pilgrimage that. Hostels might be an idea, though. I hope to go over one year and check it all out and then go in earnest the following year. I'm not a camper, but I wouldn't mind going with...
Hi, folks,
I have been toying with the idea of doing the Camino for four or five years now, but still haven't got round to it. I have read a couple of books, watched a DVD by a Scotsman and his American wife, studied maps, but I still haven't budged off my chair.
I really want to do the walk...
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