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My favourite “garment” on a spring Camino was a pair of arm warmers. You can buy them at any running/hiking/cycling shop. They basically turn a short-sleeved top into a long-sleeved top, and were typically taken off on my spring Camino within...
Yes. Up and down, especially stepping downhill at irregular intervals. It's the only one of four routes on which I "cheated" using public transport because of effect on knees that first week. As a point of comparison I had no problem at all with...
The stages are really based on two things: lack of villages to make all the stages the same length or so and elevation changes. I’ve walked from Bayonne to Bilbao and it’s definitely a different beast than the Frances. Not overly difficult, just...
Hi friends!
this resource contains as many places to sleep along the route as possible - albergues, hotels, pensions and much more in one document, handy to bring with you on the Camino.
It covers the following Routes of Camino Portuguese...
This is a complicated question and you're going to get a lot of opinions on each side. Having walked the coastal twice and part of the Central once (Porto to Ponte de Lima), I can offer a few general comments:
1) From a pure walking point of...
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