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    Tomorrow is the day! Yesssssss!!!!!!!!!!!

    A Jackie Gleason fan! ;) Will begin my fourth on 11 April from Roncesvalles, a circuitious route from new expat home in Portugal. Bus from Pamplona to Roncesvalles prompted by an inspired commitment to same April departure from same Abbey early April 2002. Now older! Heavier of hip, lighter...
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    Accommodation - to book or not to book

    I was 59 in 2002 and none of the WiFi whiz tech was available. 17 lbs in my Kelty, later a Vaude. Hardly anyone in Colorado Springs, including REI, had a clue where I was going. "Pilgrimage across Spain... are you like a nun, or something?" (Ah, no!) Roncesvalles to Zubiri, did not like the...
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    My guide and notes from our June Invierno

    I am thinking the Camino Invierno from Ponferrada to Santiago. I have saved the .pdf to my Iphone 1 but thinking to print out especially tricky bits! As it will likely not be before May, it should be quite lovely and quiet.
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    New Camino route identified

    "Dewey, Cheatham and Howe" For which two brothers did they serve as attorneys?
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    Camino Dating

    Romance ... Fell briefly in thrall with a blue-eyed Irishman who presented as in dire need of an emotional, spiritual and psychological "fixer-upper": at the time, my specialty! (Ask any of my husbands.) The Camino is one fine opportunity for the stunning clarity it awards the pilgrim with...
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    Camino Dating

    😉 "..never would have worked ..." I mean! Married to a Scot (never to be mistaken for a "Brit") and eye-rolling familiar with how both sides of the pond get their argy-bargy up over correct pronouncements of the naming of things and the (im)proper use of fork and knife, I think you were well...
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    Cheese

    El Cortes Ingles in Santiago. A quality department store chain Portugal and Spain and supermercado. "A food and wine boutique." Rua Restollal 50.
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    Trash pick up

    Oh Rita, fair Camino Saunterering Lady! I had two bouts of Covid 2023, which has done a number on my "breathlessness" and, at 79, slowed my planned weight loss. . So 11 April, my fourth CS, I plan to be "sauntering forth" from Roncesvalles and make it as far as Viskarret. First CF in 2002, I...
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    Hiking Sandals only?

    Yay, ECCO fan! I live in Coimbra, Portugal and this, my first winter, I stepped outside apartment, looked at the glistening wet pavement, looked down at my ECCOs and thought, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained!" Actually, I think I was paralyzed with fear, as I had just had a right hip...
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    6 Month Training & Weight Loss Plan for an Overweight/Plus Size Pilgrim

    In past four years, moved three times, had Covid twice (has done a NUMBER on my breathing), food poisoning, right hip beautifully replaced and 9 months hunched over computer expat'ing myself from Missouri to Portugal. 2023-24, winter in Coimbra, gloom and rain, repeated often and...
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    Merino wool shirt

    Icebreak should be stronger and t'istn't. My 200 has a snarky hole and just lamentable even after a cold wash. The rip at cinch of (previous) Osprey 36 and somehow missed in clothing review in January. What I miss (almost) more than un cafe solo-- which is saying a lot -- is the Icebreaker...
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    Looking for a weight loss accountability partner who has walked the Camino

    My last of 3 previous Caminos was 2019. I've had Covid twice, which affected my breathing (apparently not unusual). I had a right hip replacement in 2022 and that took a minute to regain even a semblance of walking strength! Moved to Portugal in 2023, just purchased a Forclaz Women's backpack...
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    Is anyone currently (March 10, 2024) on the Camino Frances - Ponferrada now?

    Cherish with your entire being you have this solitude in which to refresh your spirit, in whatever way that is appropriate for you. St Jimmy the Everpresent Encourager is rightalongside you!
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    Weather forecast - YIKES??!

    Leaving Coimbra to either train or bus to Pamplona on 08 April. One night in Pamplona, perhaps an emergency dash to Dacathlon; shake off the travel sitting. I have given up on Amazon.es living up to its erratic delivery times and bureaucratic nightmare of returning that which does not fit...
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    How to get from Lisbon airport to Porto?

    At 77, I upped stakes in USA and moved to Portugal last summer. Landed smack dab and blinking in a Portuguese dawn in the middle of a train strike, because the Pope is coming, and nothing says "we need more money" than having a transport strike in the middle of the Pope's visit. My Lisbon...
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