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Tell me if I'm Crazy... Camino Del Norte in 23 Days
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[QUOTE="peregrino_tom, post: 177481, member: 4307"] Damien, you've put your plan up here for scrutiny, so here goes... You've explained you are doing this because you are limited to three weeks' leave and you see the benefit of this amount of time as the opportunity to do a whole route. I think that while you will manage the whole route on paper you will likely experience a reduced camino. I think you are more likely to have a richer camino experience with a shorter distance. But there are two exceptions I can think of to my own argument 1 if you know you are a not just a good distance walker, but also a fast one you'll be able to fit in the standard casual sight-seeing, socialising, meandering and bar time as well as averaging 35-40km a day. In which case you won't miss so much, perhaps just the experiences of resting in places like Bilbao, Santander, Gijon, Tapia and Sobrado 2 if what's driving you is the adventure of feeling: 'I have only 23 days and it's a bit mad but I'm going to take on the 'whole' of the Norte.' Then it seems the adventure/challenge is as important to you as the camino itself. In which case all we can usefully do is advise you on your proposed stages! If you are still with me, here's my argument: If yer man Edward de Bono (a bit out of fashion now) was looking at your terms he might be asking what you mean exactly by 'do the whole thing'. Starting points we recognise today are largely our own constructs from the last 50(?) years. They're just prominent staging posts along pilgrimage routes that start much further back, many hundreds of miles away in distant lands. This should give us the freedom to determine where our camino starts, reflecting our own parameters and capabilities, which are not always wholly congruent with those of popular parlance and guide books. Start where you feel you can experience the best camino. That will be doing the 'whole' camino, wherever it is. Two alternatives to your plan that you might want to consider: 1 walk the Portuguese way from Lisbon which is about 630km and splits quite nicely into 21 stages (as I found myself, with a 3-week slot of annual leave last year). 2 Start the Norte in Bilbao or Gernika (which lots of people do). This completely takes the pressure out of the whole exercise. It gives you time to be flexible, go a bit with the flow, depending on who you meet, take a few more swims in the sea, see the cave paintings, explore the cities, meander along the E-9 coastal path occasionally and marvel and give thanks at Sobrado PS I agree with Dave about the coastal option at Miono into Castro Urdiales, which is great. I disagree about skipping round Deva. From Villaviciosa to Deva there's a cracking route high into the hills, although the waymarking gets very weird. Camping Deva is excellent and Gijon spectacular! [/QUOTE]
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