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I hope to walk a part of the Norte this September and definitely want to minimise road walking if possible. The route alternatives given by @peregrina2000 look great and with wikilocs, I feel confident that getting "off road " will be more than...
Hi, Rafael, I am sorry not to have seen this earlier. Since I haven’t been there, I really can’t give you an answer, but I don’t think there has been any effort made to take people off the official camino to the coast, so I would definitely have...
To explain -- I walked the Norte in 2007 and suffered mightily with all the pavement. In fact, I found my foot in a walking cast for about 4 months afterwards due to the pounding. Tarsal tunnel is what they called it.
I went back to the...
I walked the del Norte from Irun September/ early October last year and it took me 35 days including 3 rest days and a couple of shortish bus rides. I’m 70 and reasonably fit. Your 40 days therefore looks very doable assuming no surprises. The...
Day 9, February 7th, we walked from Bilbao to Portugalete taking the official route. It was a short relatively easy, mostly urban walk, which is good because tomorrow will be a long one. We are staying at the Bida Ona albergue in Portugalete...
And on a Sunday morning to boot! Maybe that was why, with the church across the street.
Day 7, February 5th, I got a late start leaving Bolibar (8:45) but made good time even stopping for a picnic lunch at the church in the valley before Marmiz...
February 2nd, we left beautiful San Sebastian in 90 percent humidity in 12ish degrees walked to Zarautz where we're staying in Hostel Galerna. On the way, before Orio, the sun came out and we came upon a pilgrim stop and were invited in for...
Hi all, I walked the CF in February 2020 while covid was ravaging Italy and prodding Spain. I had time constraints and often did two "stages" a day, I got shin splints pretty bad and kept walking. I am not a fast walker, I was always the last to...
Hi yes if you follow the ‘ new’ route there is no stream crossing before Guillena.
From Almadan de la Plata the route has also been upgraded to new path/ track all the way to El Real de la Jara apart from a small section at Vereda de los...
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