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Is this typical? I thought my custom insoles were expensive - they are, at several hundred dollars. However, I wore my last ones almost every day for four years!
All great suggestions above.
At age 56 and starting ‘only a bit fit’ I walked from SJPP to Finistere in 42 days. I had thought to take a rest day here and there but when it came down to it the body and I just wanted to walk.
My fitness improved...
So many good suggestions. If I were you and on my first Camino, I would not skip, not one step. On my first I was 50 yrs, I went from SJPdP to SdC in 34 days. This includes one rest day on day 21 in Virgin del Camino. (Because my body said so.)...
I am going for the 'wait and see' option. I also don't want to book places for accommodation in advance so it will come as it goes.
Looking forward to getting started. Thanks to you all.
If you start without a plan, then you can see how it goes, talk to other pilgrims in situ and decide what is best for you. Whatever you think will happen now, will be very different from what you experience and feel once you are on the road.
Yip, the industrial outskirts of the city are boring, but after 1,5-2hrs you reach Virgen del Camino and the way is getting more and more rural. I was accompanied by a group and we walked under the full moon out of the city and it was nice to see...
Just before Burgos or Leon .
Sahagan to Leon is very popular with RENFE according to locals in inclement weather .
Take 4 days to Muxia , enjoy the peace and that beautiful village Muxia.
16 years ago the kindness of a beautiful german lady , who...
It might not be as picturesque as Antigua (been there a couple of years ago) ;-) ... but miles of nothing is something many people cannot get where they live. It is an experience very different from their normal life. Also, some people need the...
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