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    Pilgrimage or vacation?

    ::: chuckle::: Silvermomma, I'd invite you to spend a little more time with yourself and your original question. Why did it bother you? What part of your self- image was being challenged by calling your personal experience and possible suffering a "vacation?" Figure that out, and you may find...
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    Wisepilgrim app

    Perhaps a relevant note: I do a lot of timed endurance walks. The advertised distance is often 13.1 miles - approximately 21 km. But that measurement assumes that the competitor always takes the shortest distance at every point on the course and on every turn, without obstacles, water...
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    Cancelling Camino - Soliciting Advice

    Ship your pack from place to place, if a service exists on your Camino.
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    Dressy comfortable town shoes!

    No one makes cute women's shoes in 12E/46 or 48. Also why I can't go below a 36L pack... ;) God gets a pair of ballet flats with an insole, which I use instead of packing a pair of shower flip flops. They dry reasonably well.
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    Single room auberge accommodation

    And, if you prefer, Buen Camino and Wise Pilgrim also have such listings
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    Nervous about going alone, without my partner

    So, Ellie, when do we start cheering for you? :) Buen Camino.
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    Perdón me

    Kind of confused by your question, so bear with me. I ended up using Google Translate, much to my shame If you're asking if ( deep breath): the Roman Catholic Church sponsors events at various times ( particularly during Lent and the Easter season) in various locations around the world ( there...
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    Spain total solar eclipse, August 12, 2026: Are camino towns preparIng?

    Forum readers know how much I struggled on the Primitivo last year. Then I looked at the eclipse map for Aug 12, 2026. The totality centerline looks like it goes within a km of Salas. My family is now laughing hysterically at me contemplating whether I could do it again, but start...
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    Second thoughts on completing del Norte

    Joro, if your heart is pulling you back to the Frances, why are you fighting it? Especially since you've walked other Caminos. Fear of missing out? On what? That's an expectation you might want to consider getting rid of. Are you trying to rewrite your personal history? Then yes, take a...
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    Camino Ingles - how immersive an experience have you found it?

    In my viewpoint as a still working US citizen with limited vacation time, immersive is what you bring to it. If you approach it as, "Holy cow, I get to spend 5 full days walking, eating, and sleeping Camino!" - my take is, you'll be immersed. Alternatively...how many days did it take you...
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    Wi Fi and Phone signal.

    I lost cell coverage a couple of times on the Primitivo, usually in valleys. That's near the Salvador, geographically.
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    Maybe a rude question! How old are you?

    Hem. Y'all didn't ask, but given how much time I've been spending with doctors lately, you're stuck. ;) Alzheimer’s took my adoptive mother in her 90s, long before her body gave up. Cancer from smoking took my bio mom right before 78. Adoptive father was the longest lived in his family when a...
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    Atypical/memorable albergues on Camino Francés?

    BTW, SP, if you choose the Primitivo and can't make both Bodenaya or Samblisimo work (I didn't try either, since I was shipping a backpack), I highly recommend Albergue El Cruce, a private donativo in La Espina, down the street a little way from the Paradilla.
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    Estrella Galicia merch in Santiago

    Neither the pilgrims nor the souvenirs... 😉
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    Solo Female Traveller?

    Should we ask how old you are, or how much life experience you have? Or whether you have already been a victim? Or how good your instincts are? Or should we tell you what you've read above? Neither are necessarily relevant. What *is* relevant is what J Wilhaus has written above, which...
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