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If albergues should only offer beds to those who have walked some significant distance to get there then no-one would be able to spend the night in one before beginning their pilgrimage. Should the albergues in SJPDP refuse people who did not...
They only "need" it so much because they insist on starting from SJPP to fufill an artificial criteria. Since accommodation is so limited, it makes sense to have it reserved, and if you don't get it, start further down the line where...
Quite a few articles on local news pages in the past 24 hours about the Aragon provincial government's announcement that it intends to build an albergue at Somport. No specific details on timescale for the project or the building itself. Part of...
Message to all transatlantic forummembers : you are safe here in Europe! You are safe with us ;).
Most of us know one or two other languages. Police and civil servants are in general very friendly and helpful.
When you are exhausted after a 25k...
In the Old Days, lords and ladies slept secure at home, in their own beds, while paid pilgrims were walking for them.
Indeed, here is my announcement:
I am ready to walk on behalf of anybody, for a reasonable amount of money (and a provision of...
Hi, I don’t have diagnosed social anxiety but I am an introvert and anxious so maybe I do. I walked alone in 2016. I had some anxiety about the whole Camino family thing as I don’t like feeling like my decisions are controlled by others, I hate...
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