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  1. Antonius Vaessen

    Cafe con leche different this year?

    Or might it be that the "coffeeculture" in the Southwest of Spain is different than in the northern parts where I walked most of my caminos?
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    Cafe con leche different this year?

    I am just back from a few weeks on the Via the la Plata. Since 2015 I have been nearly every year in Spain walking caminoroutes I loved the café con leches. This year I did not like them as much, most of the times they were much strenger than I remembered and liked. Is this just me who...
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    LIVE from the Camino Conditions on Via de la Plata

    The bifurcation is about 500 meters after the beginning of the path to Guillema thait starts right after you have crossed the dangerous exit of the highway. Zyou will recognise it ehen you get there
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    LIVE from the Camino Conditions on Via de la Plata

    After the terrible few kilometers along a busy road and dangerous crossings, we got on the path to Guillena. After a few hundred meters we got to the bifurcation: the road to the right avoids the crossing of the Arroyo de las Molinas. Because of the heavy rainfalls we chose this option. This...
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    LIVE from the Camino Conditions on Via de la Plata

    I walked today from Sevilla to Guillena. On leaving Sevilla, we took the path Aling the rivier. It was no problem at all, not a single pool of water on the trail, no mud at all. It was beautifull with many flowers.
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    Advice for my language-challenged partner

    My experience on the Norte was that the common language along pilgrims was english. ( I agree that the language transfer course is very good. Presuming one speaks english well because that is the starting point of these essons
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    Train question

    Some people prefer travelling by train above flying for reasons of durability
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    May 18, 2024, @TassietoVP (Le Puy en Velay, Via Podiensis/G65/Le chemin du Puy)

    The Via Podiensis is beautifull. If your wish to walk short days relates also to walkingtime, you should consider also that the walk after le Puy includes much going up and out, in an out of the valleys ( to be rewarded with beautiful views) To attend the 7.00 service is indeed very rewarding...
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    Camino bug is nibbling

    I have walked the VdlP in 2015/16. I will go back in two weeks, won't walk to Santiago. But have chosen to repeat the stretch Sevilla Salamanca, because I liked that the most. Very nice cities like Sevilla, Merida, Caceres and Salamanca ( which I liked best)
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    Accommodation Options Between Caceres and Salamanca

    It is only in Spanish, but if you have "chrome" on your device it translate easily. I love Gronze, I used it on all my caminos as my main source of information
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    New to the Camino! Questions...

    Perhaps the combination Camino Ingles with finistere muxia is an option. Both would take about a week (I did not walk the ingles the walk to Finistere and Muxia is very nice)
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    New to the Camino! Questions...

    It would ( in general) be easier to answer questions if the poster would tell more about herself and her preferences regarding for instance landscape; weather, rural or urban and so on
  13. Antonius Vaessen

    Camino newbie question

    Some of them are, some of them are n(h)ot
  14. Antonius Vaessen

    Is it OK to write emails in English when booking accommodation?

    I think the OP kind of answered her own question. He/ she says " I dont want to come across as being disrectpectful" I think people should strive to being respectfull, it is clear that writing in the language of the receiver is the most respectfull. Posing the question proves that the OP is...
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    What makes a pilgrim?

    The fact that there are many credentials out there that dont mention the conditions/rules prove to me that the rules are not that clear as you suggest. The comparison that comes to my mind is a person with a nutallergy, buys a product where the text upon the package says nothing about the...
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