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[QUOTE="Anamiri, post: 1012413, member: 77779"] In my experience you have a higher chance of meeting English speaking pilgrims if you start in SJPDP. A lot of the Spanish start at Pamplona, I guess they don't feel the need to start in another country. I have no data to back this up but my impressions are that: A number of people who live in the EU or Britain walk a week or two a year - purely because the transport costs are so affordable ,and they may only have a few weeks holiday a year. You may meet and befriend these people but they will only be there a short time. A number of Spanish people walk in weekends, I took me a while to figure out why I met a lot of nicely dressed people at dinner in weekends only. They often walked in pairs or groups, and often socialized together. People who travel a longer distance to get to Spain often walk the longer trails because it is time consuming and more expensive to get there, so they make the most of it. I found a lot of the people who started at SJPDP spoke English, even if it wasn't their main language. And on that first night, most people stay in Roncesvalles, so you have a good chance to meet more people all in one place. You can hear people talking in a large dormitory, and know who is speaking English. Something you cant do if you have private rooms. Plus if you have the dinner offered there's a high chance you'll be at a table for 8 which also gives more opportunities to chat. After Roncesvalles people start to spread out between accommodation options. Half of the people walking start in Sarria, and a lot of those are Spanish. It does help if you have already worked out who speaks English, but even so I met a few on the Camino there. On several trips I found a number of church groups etc who spoke English, and some English/Irish/etc walking just the last 100kms. If you consider that about half of the pilgrims start at Sarria, and many are Spanish, there are large numbers of other people from countries/languages starting in other places. The stats from the pilgrim office do show plenty of pilgrims who would speak English. [/QUOTE]
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