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    How many pilgrims do not ask for a Compostela after their Camino?

    Like me, just the first.
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    Peripheral Neuropathy and walking the Camino

    I have chemo induced PN in my feet and right hand. I have found that long walking (5 caminos) improved my condition. Especially the first two caminos, the Camino frances and norte. In addition to all the other good advice re poles, boots, socks, massage etc cold water soaks for the feet work...
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    Best time to walk Levante

    I went April and May In 1999 and only 2 days of rain.
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    Trip insurance for the Camino

    I've walked 5/6 caminos with a pre-existing condition. I never bothered with private health insurance and made sure my E11 card, or whatever it is called now, was up to date. I only ever had occasion to use it on one trip, after a bad fall just outside Valencia. I soldiered on for over 6 weeks...
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    Neuropathy tips

    I started with 25 steps in the house and then doubled every day till I was walking miles and then up to 10/15 miles here in the UK, then added a weighted rucksac. I had lots of backward steps and had to scale back for a while. The one thing I noticed is that with peripheral neuropathy you...
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    Neuropathy tips

    I suffered from intense chemo induced peripheral neuropathy and was told "apart from pottering around, you may never walk again." I set about trying to fix this (with what seemed like a crazy long term aim in 2013 to be able complete the camino frances) along with a bucket full of painkillers I...
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    Snack Bars made of Oats

    You can definitely buy muesli-type bars in most supermarkets on the camino...not as good as those here in the UK but they are there.
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    Poll Which Camino are you planning next?

    Hopefully, I will restart the Mozarabe from Almeria to Santiago which I had to abandon, one day out from Almeria in 2020, because of of the Covid lockdown in March.
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    Ancient churches on the San Salvador, Primitivo, and Via de la Plata

    I do. I was married in Santa Maria del Naranco in 1977. I return to Oviedo occasionally and go and sit and contemplate the church as my wife passed many years ago.
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    Getting from Norte to Oviedo

    Take the regular bus from Pola as the walk in to Oviedo is tarmac anyway and uninspiring.
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    Pocket knives on trains

    Definitely no knives on Eurostar trains
  12. Ant

    Time of Year

    Santiago de Compostela is in north west Spain, not the north east
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    Cooking facilities in Albergues along the Levante

    Not many do. I did it last year.
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    Best time to walk San Salvador

    Who knows. In theory from Leon to Pajares is the drier side. You are in the mountains so anything is possible at any time.
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    Best time to walk San Salvador

    Fro But then from Oviedo on the 26th to Santiago, via the Primitivo, almost torrential rain all the way!
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