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[QUOTE="Bridget and Peter, post: 48342, member: 2018"] We walked A Coruna to Santiago last March - it was a lovely walk if a bit wet and windy at times. Yes, there are hills. We live in the Fens (flat) in east England and do not regularly walk up hills, so I puffed up one or two, but with pauses for breath and a steady pace they were perfectly manageable. We had just 'done' a daughter's wedding, so were physically quite tired and emotionally exhausted! Our training beforehand had been one longish (6 - 8 miles or 9 - 12 km) walk most weekends for the previous couple of months, with a backpack on with about 4 tims of baked beans wrapped in a towel as well as out lunch. I disagree strongly about the ugliness - except maybe for the outskirts of Santiago. We walked through green tunnels among moss covered trunks and violet-clad banks. We crossed trickling streams on stepping stones and watched catkins blowing in the wind. We walked under mimosa in bloom and passed dainty miniature narcissi. The sky was bright blue (when not raining - it was early March) with white clouds. The long hill before Bruma offered a succession of magnificent views. We sat in little bar-cum-village shops to sit out a shower once or twice where people were friendly, sandwiches and drinks provided cheerfully and loos handy. We smiled at people out in their gardens who smiled back. To return to practicalities - we walked from A Coruna to Os Campons and Hostel Alba for our first night. Then to Bruma and the albergue which had the kindest hospitaliero but was quite cold.Then to Sigueiro and Hostel Miras which was basic but adequate, and cheap, - the showers were hot even if the bathroom wasn't very! I am racking my memory to remember where we ate our evening meal - I think we had a pizza somewhere. But we had loads of cups of tea in the bar or the Hostel Miras. Then next day into Santiago. I was not disappointed by anything about this, my first experience of walking a camino in Spain, except actually arriving in front of the cathedral in a thick drizzle, everything was so dark gray and I didn't like the baroque front at all!! Next day when I was less tired and found the early medieval stuff I cheered up enormously!! Anyway, I wrote up our Camino Ingles very fully with pictures - see below and click on March 2009. love Bridget [/QUOTE]
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