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    Which is cooler in July: Lugo to Santiago on Primitivo, or Tui to Santiago on Portuguese? More Beautiful?

    The route gpx at the Ponte Ferreira website is the route I'd planned for my cancelled 2018 Camino, (apart from the start from the Albergue Ponte Ferreira). Is the route through Sobrado to the Norte on the Verde, then turning off at Biomorto to join the Frances at Santiago Airport an official...
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    Anyone trek The Camino with plates and screws in their ankle?

    I have a hip replacement after breaking my pelvis in 3 places. My orthopaedic specialist OKed me to walk the Primitivo at 10 months from the replacement. I never did get to walk that year, and am interested if anyone has walked a Camino with that big chunk of titanium implanted.
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    Travel Health Insurance?

    I'm 84, with some health issues, and in 2018, the last travel insurance I took out took a lot of finding and cost as much as my return airfares from Sydney to Spain. More health issues and other increasing years mean increased insurance costs preclude returning to do another Camino. 😢
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    Crossing from Primitivo to Norte - Yes You Can!

    We had to cancel our plans to walk the Primitivo in September 2018. We were planning to walk to Camino Verde from Lugo to Sobrado, then side track from Biomorto across to join road N634 on the route published somewhere here (can't find the reference) Staying overnight on N634 at the Muino de...
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    Crossing from Primitivo to Norte - Yes You Can!

    I was planning to walk the Camino Primitivo and cross to Sobrado using the Camino Verde, from Lugo, then from Biomorto, to avoid Melide and rejoin the Camino Frances near Santiago Airport at Lavacolla. This would mean walking the rods and following the route described on signs in Biomorto...
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    Space Blanket: Noise?

    In the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, a walker in our party climbing Little Dingo ridge a few years ago had a heart attack and unfortunately died. My foil space blanket served as a shroud until we could get him to a helicopter. A reluctant memory adding to possible uses.
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    Space Blanket: Noise?

    I had one, unused for years all over. When I finally had reason to use it, it had degenerated onto a set of rectangles and was useless.
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    Via de la Plata, April 2022 - to the Sanabrés, or Astorga?

    As a complete beginner in September 2013, we had planned to start our first camino in Avila, towards the end of the Levante. So across to the Via de la Plata and then onto the Sanabres. We met hardly any other peregrinos, had plenty of space in all of the Junta albergue. I came back to Sydney...
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    Norte vs Primitivo

    Before this nasty Covid, we were planning to walk the Verde to cross from the Primitive to the Norte from Lugo and again turn off the Norte at Biomorto and walk parallel to the Primitivo to join the Frances hoards near the Santiago Airport. Can provide a gpx file if needed. Cancelled by an...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Study finds low particulate levels onboard aircraft

    Here in Australia, we won't be flying overseas in a while. We have the country's border in total lockdown for leaving. Best to preserve our 40 + days of no local cases. Of course many from overseas are now locked in hotels to stay out their 14 days . At 83, and now a bit incapacitated, I'm...
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    Shifting from Garmin GPS to phone — step 1

    Coming inlate, I have used an excellent app called OziExplorer on my Android phone for navigation. Its at http://www.oziexplorer.com. As others have said, the app can upload GPX files from any source, but you will need to set up or buy area maps. It will sound an alarm to tell you when you...
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    What's your earliest Camino connection?

    Was present at a presentation by Tony Kevin just after the launch of his book "Walking the Camino" in 2008. It took a few years for the bug to bite. In 2013 three of us left Sydney for Avila to walk the last bit of the Camino de Levante to Zamora and then via the Camino de Sureste into...
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    What do you do when you cannot walk anymore?

    At 82, I'm gradually accepting that I now will probably not be able to walk another Camino after a life spent bushwalking on OZ and hiking in Europe, including a Camino in 2013 (Saureste). I've had a series of medical issues over the last few years, Bowel cancer, fractured pelvis, a hip...
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    Mixed-method Camino - no distance certificate/compostela?

    If I walk the Camino Primitivo Camino Verde as far as Biomorto, then cut across to Lavacolla, am I still able to receive a Compostella in that the last 50 or 60 km will not be on an actual marked Camino route?
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    The 100 km mojón on the Camino Francés

    We walked part of the Camino de Levante from Avila in 2013, finishing with the Saureste. No "sign" of the 100 km requirement at that time as far as I could see. When did the 100 km minimum come in?
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