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I was there in October, and had to do the exact same thing you did... just to find out we could have continued on the road 20 meters parallel, a much better option. Especially since I almost lost my footing on a loose stone, and almost fell to --God forbid-- a possible fracture.
This May I will reach Santiago on the Primitivo, rest one day and then take a bus to Porto to meet my daughters (they will fly from Mexico) and start again with them, this time on the Portugese Central. I offered to get them poles; one option is to buy cheap ones at Decathlon in Porto. The other...
I recently finished the Le Puy camino, and one of the villages you go by is Condom, translated by Google into French and Spanish as "Preservatif/preservativo"!
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