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    Suggestion on the best way to travel from Santiago to Madrid

    Fly! It’s cheap, quick and no hassle, based on my experience in June. Buen Camino.
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    Lost & Found Lost (and found?)

    Sorry. May 19 this year. It’s easy to mix up dates while walking!
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    Lost & Found Lost (and found?)

    A request for some assistance: on or around June 19th, my adult granddaughter, her boyfriend and I were walking the French way Camino toward Logrono. We stopped at (I think) a cafe before Logrono (Viana?) for a few hours. I went into a store that sold camping gear and bought a Fanny pack to...
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    Did you take many photos and videos?

    Hello. For my first Camino (French, 2015) I took around 1150 pictures with my phone camera. I figured that each picture in the cold took about 5 to 7 minutes to take after putting my poles down, taking off gloves, finding my phone, aiming and composing the picture, reversing the process, etc...
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    When do most pilgrims feel like quitting the Camino de Santiago?

    For my first Camino in March of 2015, having not paid attention to the good advice about carrying a back pack weighing about10 percent of my 150 pound body weight, and after not training on any hills, on the second day of of my walk out of Valcarlos carrying a 35 pound pack, I “hit the wall”...
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    Unique Replies to 'Buen Camino': Personalizing the Traditional Greeting

    I believe it’s Latin.
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    Musings after completing the Camino

    I would like to add to your list - toilet facilities. After walking two Caminos, in 2015 and 2018, I took a road trip in the U. S. and became shocked by the deplorable toilet facilities for travelers in the U.S. compared to the Camino. I felt like I had returned to a first world country. Yes...
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    May 2023

    Hello, fellow Pilgrim! My granddaughter and her boyfriend and I are also planning to start the Frances in early May, around the 10th. We may meet up with you along the way. This will be their first and my third Camino. At 79, I’ll be hoping for decent weather and continued good health! Buen...
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    Spiritual variant - is it worth it?

    Ditto. My wife and I loved the Variante! Walked it in May of 2018, before Covid. It was the two most beautiful days of our walk from Porto to Santiago. And…it’s down hill all the way!
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    Camino CF October - November 2021

    Hello! I am 77 and, with my 65 year young wife, am planning to start our third Camino in early October of this year. Not planning on it being our last, but who knows. We wish you all the best for your journey. (Plan “B” is to start next Spring if October doesn’t work out.) Remember, “life is...
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    Changing horses in the middle of the Camino

    This brought back memories: After an exhausting climb up to Roncesvalles in my 2015 walk on the Fr. Camino, I left a beautiful $300 tent, a pair of gators, a heavy journal, extra clothes, and a few other items I can’t recall, which reduced my pack weight to about 30 lbs! For my much wiser walk...
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    Starting the quest

    Hello. I walked the Frances in 2015 at age 70 with my adult son. Then, my wife and I walked the Portuguese from Porto three years later. Loved both trips, though the experiences were quite different. We both vouch for the beauty, food, and lovely people along the Portuguese route and we’re...
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    Am I the only one who...

    I’m not sure I want to admit it, but I quit counting how many Camino books I’ve read at 50. Some better than others, a very few are works of art. None can replace or even capture the experience of actually doing it. Looking forward to our third Camino in the Spring of 2022!
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD How are you finding meaning in your life during COVID 19?

    An excellent post and question! I preface my response by saying my wife and I are retired, with pensions and social security, and live in a comfortable and safe home with access to beautiful wooded areas for walking, etc. right out our door. So...I am responding with full awareness that many...
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    Sounds of the Camino

    I will never forget the first time I heard a cuckoo of in the distance from the top of a hill outside of Puente La Reina on the Camino Frances. Before that the only cuckoo sounds I’d ever heard were from clocks or movies. I’m looking forward to hearing them in person once more when my wife and I...
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