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I was nearing retirement. My wife and I were transitioning from wilderness backpacking to more 'urban' trekking (Santa Cruz to Monterey, e.g.). She read about the Camino on one if the blogs she follows and I thought abstractly: we could do that.
The idea remained in the back of my mind...
Sara Bar & Café in Baamonde, next to the albergue, had pretty good burgers, as I recall.
My current favorite is Hamburgueseria Chipper in Astillero. It's a little off the Norte, not really worth a special detour, but if you're in the neighborhood...
There's a chain of stores called HomeGoods (for those unfamiliar, it's an eclectic mix of household goods, bedding, decor, furniture, etc. I think it all might closeouts from other stores).
Whenever I go there, I end up buying a lot of cool things I hadn't planned on.
The cashier always asks if...
There are two in Santander, should you be on the Norte and the need arise: one on C Rualasal near the Lupa and the other on C Lealtad just south of the Hotel Coliseum.
We’ve done the Norte twice; in 2017, at age 60 and untrained, and again in 2019.
Our first camino was a “proper” pilgrimage, we walked every day and stayed in albergues every night. We averaged 20km days and finished well within your time frame. We did take the train once, from Gijon to Muros...
For us, it was more the hassle than the cost of travel (although the cost is becoming prohibitive, too). Our typical flight from California had 2 layovers and took 25 - 30 hours. I'm getting too old for that nonsense.
And now, there's a camino marker in the sidewalk outside our front door 😁
Similar. When the reality of it suddenly hit; here we were, in the middle of Spain, having walked to where we were and now must continue walking to reach our destination.
Laughing and crying at the unlikeliness of it all (while enjoying an ice cream cone in Santillana del Mar). No one gave us a...
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