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    Women - If you are the victim of any crime or harassment on the Camino
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    Jimmy Smith
    Asking for help through Burgos and Leon
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    Give albergues/gîtes 5-star reviews during these weird times...
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  • Tags which camino route?
    • Caminos one after another
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    • Still going and still rocking!
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    Camino home to home, 2019-2021
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    • Necessary Sundries
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    Pancho
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    Entering Spain in August 2021
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    Carrion de los condes
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    Mr. Walker
    • Locked
    Possible to walk May 2021
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    SusanH
    If you had an extra day in Bayonne, St. Jean, and Pamplona...
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    Huub den Boer
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    First time Camino Frances Sep 2021
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  • Tags history
    • Origin of the yellow arrows
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    Bob Howard
    Digital Brierley Guide?
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    If you had an extra day, what would you have done?
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    Scotland to Santiago
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  • Tags in memorium
    • Death of Felisa’s daughter, María
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  • Tags route variant
    • Camino Francés through Aragón
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    Plans for 2021?
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    EL LECHERO
    St. Jean to Burgos
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    Noel & Annie J
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    • Monte de Gozo - statue commemorating visit of pope has been removed
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    • Band of Trudgers - Virtual Camino
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    Tour to Poitiers versus Sancoins to Varzy for a 4-5 days camino
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  • Tags camino basics which camino route?
    • How do you choose your first Camino route?
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  • Tags travel-agencies/groups
    • Curious about tour operator pre-planned walks
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    Harland2019
  • Tags fiestas/holidays/markets
    • Hospital de Órbigo - Sunday 19 May 2019
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    BROWNCOUNTYBOB
    Alternate Route to Uterga ?
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    Holiday Dates, Camino Frances, 2019
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  • Tags sarria to santiago
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    EL LECHERO
    PRE AND POST CF.
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    Anniesantiago
    Does anyone have a photo they can share...
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    Just saw this. Don't count on Easter Camino.
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    A year ago today
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    • 2021 Camino Frances - will be more expensive !
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    • The story of your Stone at the Cruz de Ferro
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    Camino, March 2021.
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    Transport up and down the Pyrenees to SJPDP?
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    • A winter camino? Why not!
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    Robo
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    • Story: The 3 Camino Amigos – Why it started to fall apart on the Camino Frances (and a Question)
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  • Tags sjpp to roncesvalles
    • Orisson: To stop or not to stop?
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    • San Froilan festival in Leon - any experience?
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    • Sept 2021 - Trails of the unexpected ! Camping
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    • Locations used in "The Way"
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    Albergue de peregrinos O Cebreiro
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    Peter Ray
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    • Confessions during the Holy year 2021
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    Sam_Sillaman
    Thinking of walking Camino Frances in summer 2021... in need of advice
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    Anniesantiago
    An Email From SJPP Gite re: 2022
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    • walking the Camino aged 79 (the French way)
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    Derek Booth
    Long Shot, CF March 2019 Companions???
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    Camino for Good - Is it real?
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    • Paraplegic and walking with crutches.....
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    Diane Domino
    Travelling Companions.
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    brightblu
    • Locked
    February 2021
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  • Tags hazards
    • Most challenging sections on the Camino Frances
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    Robo
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    Albergue (pilgrim's hostel) for sale in Lorca (Navarra), in the Camino Francés
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    Bradypus
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    • Cruz de Ferro - plans for landscaping and redevelopment
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    Trying to work out the length of my camino for flights
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    JP
    Good Old Days, my first Camino 2014.
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    German Pilgrim
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    mark stevens
    CF May 2021
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    Caminoforgood.com - virtual Camino
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    • 2019 Statistics
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    Kedney
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    Past Sarria
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    Monte do Gozo
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    Carrion de los Condes
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  • Tags accommodation-general albergue life
    • Reservations in albergues municipal in 2021
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    Camino Frances: Background, statistics, and prognosis for the near future.
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    STEPS: Why Pilgrims Walk the Camino de Santiago
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    • What souvenir(s) did you bring back from the Camino?
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    SusanH
  • Tags spring
    • April 2021
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    Rambler
    What part of Camino would you not do?
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    gmag
    Hoy ha llegado a Santiago, Robert, desde Leipzig. 3379 Km. Today he has arrived in Santiago, Robert, from Leipzig
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    RENSHAW
  • Tags history
    • Did the pilgrims 1000 years ago walk on or next to the Roman roads?
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    miguel_gp
    We Walk For You 2020
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  • Tags virtual camino
    • Virtual Camino
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    Gronze screenshot happy days Roncesvalles
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    • Reflections of a first-timer on the Camino Frances in 2020
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