Recent content by David Baylor

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    A shorter stage from Cercedilla

    I wish I had seen this thread before I started this week. This stage was unbearable today. The long uphill slog on rough roman roads should have tipped me off but the final 8 kilometers on a dusty trail always seeing Segovia but painfully and slowly making progress was torture.
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    Tickets purchased, we will be in Madrid on the 16th of June!!!

    Leave tomorrow. Just finishing up packing today and having a fine meal tonight.
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    Tickets purchased, we will be in Madrid on the 16th of June!!!

    Plan is still the same. Would be nice to meet a few of the people on the forum to put some faces with names.
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    Tickets purchased, we will be in Madrid on the 16th of June!!!

    He is 18. Graduates in June then off to college. He will be a man in the eyes of the law but will always be my little buddy.
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    Another Backpack recommendation request

    Purchased the Osprey Kestrel 38 for my son and the 48 for myself. Loving the pack so far.
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    Tickets purchased, we will be in Madrid on the 16th of June!!!

    I am so looking forward to this walk with my son.
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    Alternative to Finishing on the Camino de Frances

    Mainly stuff I got off this forum. There are links to download the La Plata / Sanabres guide and one of the users walked the Madrid and reported on darn near every town. I have also used Google Maps / Street view to look at most of the towns I will be going through. Search this forum and you...
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    Another Backpack recommendation request

    I might move one of ours up from a 38 to a 48. Being able to shift gear if one of us is hurting sounds tempting and I would like to do some more deep woods trails in the future and could use the extra storage.
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    Alternative to Finishing on the Camino de Frances

    I will be posting (hopefully) a blog as we go and I will definitely report here when I am done.
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    Alternative to Finishing on the Camino de Frances

    My son will be walking the Madrid in June of this year. We also wanted to avoid the CF so we are leaving the Madrid route at Santa Maria la Real de Nieva and jumping over to Arevelo to join the Camino de Levanto to Zamora then doing the Camino Via de la Plata to Granja de Moreruela and finishng...
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    I don't want to just be an 'Extra' in someone else's Camino...

    When it comes to the Holy Spirit, I assume I will need to change.
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    I don't want to just be an 'Extra' in someone else's Camino...

    I certainly do not want to respire any contention here but I am on a similar train of thought. I will be doing the camino in June with my son who is getting ready for university. It is our last chance to bond. I want us to have plenty of distraction free time together. I, for this reason, chose...
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    For anyone who lives in Madrid, Three tasks to do in Madrid, how (exactly) would you do it

    Thank you
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    For anyone who lives in Madrid, Three tasks to do in Madrid, how (exactly) would you do it

    pre paid cash cards
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    For anyone who lives in Madrid, Three tasks to do in Madrid, how (exactly) would you do it

    Thanks all. I only have one bank card and I want to use the Spanish debit as primary and if something goes wrong my bank card as back up. Just trying to be safe. I was just going to get another bank card here but thought that a Spanish debit card would be more universal.
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