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If you're happy to work through the details, you'll be fine. Anyone over the age of 12 flies on an adult ticket and so I don't know if there are rules for minors - you'd need to check that.
I have taken my eight kids on the camino (6-18 years)...
Love your answer! Not what it implies (no floating for me) but the humor you managed to put in it. Made me laugh.
Thank you!
I will keep you to it if I manage to find one :-)
I’ve done both the Salvador+Primitivo in Oct 2022 and just walked the complete Invierno last November 2023 alone coming from the Le Puy then Frances, I found the Camino Frances up to Ponferrada way too “noisy” with many young pilgrims so I...
After years of hiking and running, I am a believer in non-gortex shoes. No matter what, your feet are going to get wet if the rain or puddles gets serious. You'll also get wet once you get warmed up and start sweating. But you'll dry out much...
I think there was never an idea of a particular starting point to the Camino de Santiago. I can't speak to the earliest times, but in the 80s, when I first came across it, there was the idea that four routes across France converged into two...
Wouldn’t change a thing. I walked on sacred ground, walked by millions of feet for well over a thousand years. I am but a humbled visitor to that historic path.
That's exactly what I thought when I first discovered it. It's good you have a Mac to do this on, because it is finicky on a phone. If it ends up not working properly for you, Gaia GPS also allows you to snip the ends of a track and save the new...
@islandwalker Elaine - Brilliant! Similar to you helping me navigate Wikilocs you have done it again! I have as yet not tried to split the GPX file however my initial question about Elevation Gains/Losses by stage is now answered. Super easy...
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