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HI Brendan
Thanks for the email for Tricia, we'll email her. We're glad to hear about "not being thrown in the deep end". We spoke to somebody who volonteered as hopitalero and he said that it is not important to know spanish as we are fluent in english and french. However we are learning...
Hi Hilda,
I would encourage you to walk the camino.
In july/aug2006 my wife and I met a young spanish pilgrim in Santibanez, at a refugio where we were staying. She told us that she was walking the camino alone for the second time. The first time she walked alone as she wanted to prove to...
HI Terra,
I don't know if you are still planning to walk in 2008 and what month.
My wife Janet and I walked from Leon to Santiago in july/aug2006 averaging 25km daily - basically we took 14days. Because it was hot at that time, we started our daily walk at 6am (woke up at 5am) and stopped for...
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We walked the camino frances from Leon to Santiago in july/august2006 averaging 25km daily. We then took a bus to finisterre - a lot of that area was burning (vandals). We had the usual pilgrims physical pains. Our first day from Leon to Villar de mazarife was rough as...
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