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A couple of years ago I came to the albergue in Villar de Mazarife and was informed by my fellow pilgrims that they planned to start walking around 4 o'clock to walk in the lunar eclipse. The whole room decided to join in (except one other...
I was walking in Sept 22 for the conjunction of the moon and Jupiter (IIRC) and saw loads of pilgrims who were out especially. As others have said. the meseta will be your best chances
My plan for the Carrión de los Condes to Calazadilla de la Cueza stretch is to check into a private room and go to sleep early. I'll wake up a few hours before daybreak and start walking. I should reach Calzadilla as the sun is coming up, just...
Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but the simplest way to avoid Ponferrada is just don't turn left towards the bridge at Puente Boeza, but simply keep walking West and straight ahead towards Toral de Merayo, staying on the southern bank of the...
I fell in love on the Camino. It was the kind of love at first sight, burn fast and bright, thing that I haven’t experienced since I was a teenager.
I met him in Belorado. @alexwalker and I got the last two beds in the hostel he was staying in...
Hi Tilly.
Well I don’t know if it happens often, but it does happen.
In April 2014, I was walking the Camino Le Puy, solo. It was my third camino, having walked the Frances in 2011 and 2013. On the afternoon of my 19th day on the Le Puy route...
Not meeting on Camino but one year I met a young Texican couple. Good upbringing, good schools, perfect teeth, etc (oh, and they were really good, intelligent, positive, and nice people too). They had been childhood sweethearts .. did school...
In 2013 near the end of my first Frances I met a spanish lady and we dated for 9 months. Now just friends. She lives near Madrid so I see occasionally when I walk.
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