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You have my well wishes! 🙂 The first Camino is so exciting!
My only advice would be to try and book ahead an albergue in StJeanpdePort for the first night, so you don’t have to worry about that. And go to the pilgrim’s office when you arrive...
I am 29 doing the Frances by myself starting in SJPdP next week. I didn’t realize this was a busiest time to do the Frances so I am really nervous about the bed race. I don’t mind socializing or crowds but being stranded sounds like a nightmare...
If you think about it the answer is simple - the guide books offer so many days to get to Santiago from St Jean, usually 33 days - so the daily kms have to fit into that so there the basic structure of the book.
Unfortunately, regardless of...
I walked the Camino Frances in 2017. My husband and I walked Del Norte Camino last Fall 2023. Both were in entirety because as a seventy something year old I have lots to see and little time to squeeze it all in so why repeat. Plus both...
My plan is Camino Vasco del Interior to Burgos, Burgos to Leon on the Frances, Salvador to Oviedo/Gihon and Norte to Ribadeo, then some combo of coastal to Ferrol, approaching Santiago from the Ingles. In 2018 it was Norte to Primitivo and into...
If you don't you will always wonder about the rest of the Camino del Norte. All of it (ok, except for a few km between Gijon and Aviles) is very beautiful and special. Buen Camino
I think this is an impossible question to answer. Like yourself there are so many of us who have walked many long distance caminos. Yes the first time I walked was very, very special and the CF was also very different in 2012. I do not have the...
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