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Attached is a summary PDF of the stages between Almeria and Mérida that I have just completed.
I’ve also included it as an image.
It may help someone with planning.
At the very least it will show just how many places needed booking, where a...
G’day,
I am an Aussie walking from London via Canterbury and the VF to Rome. After completing the Lon-Cant section (Chaucers’ Pilgrims Way) I am now in Licques at the end of Day 4 on the VF.
I will be taking roughly five months to complete...
This topic has come up several times. To summarize, its not an economic model that works.
I spent a fraction over 11 euro to mail my poles and a lightly used guidebook back to the municipal albergue in Oviedo where I started, with a donation...
Hi Adelina, I served as a hospitalera in Grado for the first half of October in 2019. A wonderful experience. Sunrise wasn’t until about 8 am so we waved pilgrims off in the dark each morning.
I hope to walk the Primitivo the first two weeks of October and will be serving at the donativo in Grado from the 15th to the 31st. Stop by and say hi!!!
I wrote this long-winded post to address some of the recent concerns, comments and questions regarding this route, and I hope some might find it useful. I flew from Dublin to Lourdes on the 18th of April, took the train to Pau and started walking...
Crazy! That is what we were told by others when we decided to walk 500+ miles with two of our children across the top of Spain.
We got a little nervous in the weeks leading up to the flight that was going to take us on this epic journey. Many...
Let me preface this by saying please understand I am not picking on anybody, I fully understand that mistakes happen and how. Been there, done that.
I have been astonished to see so many lost and found reports over the last two weeks. And not...
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