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I use SOLE active insoles with matetarsal pads - use medium or thick depending on the volume of the shoe. Others that include a hard plastic piece attached to foam or other light materials (like Superfeet) tend to create pinch points on my feet...
The VdlP is very quiet. We hiked it from mid-September through October last year - During the day sometimes we might see 5 or 6 other pilgrims, sometimes none. Including cyclists, the most crowded we saw at albergues was maybe 15. But we...
After 28 days of walking (and some days of city relaxing), I have finished the Camino Mozarabe! My favourite Camino so far, but would it be yours?
You can see day-by-day photos and more detailed info on my Instagram...
Definintely walk the route from Sevilla to Salamanca if you think you might want to come back and finish the rest at a later time.
If you were pretty certain you will never go back, I would try to come up with a route that incorporates Mérida...
Hi everyone!!!
Just a quick post here about our experience walking the Camino with my fur baby Fuji. Still travelling (another 12h drive day today), so full write up will come bit by bit over the next few days.
While preparing for this trip, I...
Hi currently on the vdlp and thought following might be useful to others. I’m only on day 3 so will try to update from time to time.
Have stopped in Guillena, Castilblanco de los Arroyos and Almaden de la plata. Mix of private and municipal...
Norte 2023 was the first time I actually put some training into Camino. I walked a lot of stairs at home, a lot.
First week in Spain was mountains and mud. After that it was pratically all asphalt. I took as many coastline alternatives as I could.:
In reply to BarbaraW - first of many I think as a lovely post - further up I suppose I wrote about the rather bleak "cost calculation" to so many careless humans living on this planet but there is so much more to being human than a balance sheet...
I agree in general with others' comments about the relative merits of Muxia and Finisterre. Two other thoughts:
Since you are walking with your daughter, you might try to anticipate what she would like most. Finisterre certainly has more of a...
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