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I am so sorry for your loss. May the Camino’s eternal reach (feel however this is meaningful for you) comfort you and your dear ones, holding you all close in love. God bless, Catherine.
La Voz de Galicia has reported the death of a 65 year old pilgrim from the United States this afternoon near Castromaior. The likely cause appears to be a heart attack. The pilgrim was walking the Camino with his wife...
Challenging? Yes, some of the mentioned sections. especially with rain or frost. The final descent to Molinaseca is a good candidate.
Dangerous? Nope, not really, but this is quite subjective. I would reserve this word for the stage from SJPP to...
Can I turn this? I’ll turn this. The most dangerous place on the Camino Frances, or any other Camino, is the gap between expectation and reality. Many have fallen there. Yes there are places where the footing is a bit challenging and there are...
Just reading all three of these places listed together gave me a mild case of anxious deja-vu 😱 I was fortunate enough to walk all three stretches in good weather and still found them extremely challenging. I can't imagine what they'd be like in...
To me the most Dangerous stage on the Camino Frances was from Foncebadon to Ponferrada in the rain.
Never forget the riverbed rocks from El Acebo to Ponferrada totally treacherous, seen several injuries sprained or broken ankles on route...
I love looking at my physical guidebooks when planning my caminos and write in their margins and underline pertinent information on the pages. I now take pictures of those pages before I leave home, so no weight is involved. I then use them in...
Hello,
We hiked up O Cebreiro today and it was raining quite heavily , then the rain turned to snow. Thankfully , we’re staying in O Cebreiro tonight in a warm and cozy room getting dried out!
Not much, at least about the camino itself. The beautiful and ugly, the serene places and the parts near a motorway, the cities and vast empty spaces...all those things are part of a whole.
People are another story. I would love fewer entitled...
Wouldn’t change a thing. I walked on sacred ground, walked by millions of feet for well over a thousand years. I am but a humbled visitor to that historic path.
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