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Hola peregrinos!
After a fantastic three week camino from Bilbao to Santiago last summer, we have decided to attempt a three day camino to Fisterra at the end of July! We arrive at santiago airport early on a monday morning and depart from santiago very early the following Thursday. We have a...
As an amateur walker and atheist the Camino is a perfect journey - weather, signage, availability of cheap food and accommodation, beaches on the north make it all so simple and enjoyable. I'm sure it will be a popular route for non religious pilgrim for many years. Personally I've had only one...
We've used the confraternity guide for the northern routes and find it to be wrong and unclear. Some glaring mistakes and sometimes confusing. It is also out of date.
Locus map app has been a life saver for us. I downloaded a map of Spain for offline use and it maps the cdn route really clearly and provides alternatives. It marks out where there are water fountains and ermitas etc. It also marks your exact location - even offline - scarily accurately. This...
Thanks for that - we've walked that distance several times already on what looks like similar terrain. We will evaluate as we go! Good to know it's clearly marked!
We are on our way and have taken a days respite halfway through our planned trip. We are very unclear about the route forward to Soto de Luiña - gronze.com, our english guide book, our online map and another Spanish site list quite a few variables. We have no idea how to proceed - is this doable...
Our (2 peregrinos) first overnight stage of the camino is in Castro Urdiales at the start of next week... It'd be great to have an update on the accommodation status in the albuerge there.
We start our northern route on monday from bilbao and have decided to follow the north coast for as long as we can moving inland from Ribadeo. We think it will be nicer to follow the coast and also there will be less pilgrims on that route although for some unknown reason Baamonde seems to be...
Thanks - there's no point sweating the small stuff eh? :D I simply went for quick dry type with wicking. Typical worries are - what happens if there's no room at the hostel... what about bed bugs... is it safe to leave stuff at the hostel and go for a swim...
I've gone back to Ireland for a...
So many helpful comments!!! We are leaving in days and I have butterflies in my tummy (and sometimes an innate grin)!!! Starting to "worry" about what underwear to bring - loose baggy? Well fitted? What about chafing?! It's a warm drizzly gray day in manchester today - I reckon we'll have a few...
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