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I started my Camino del Norte in Biarritz last year, and highly recommend starting there or Bayonne. You get in two days of fairly flat walking before starting the climbs on the route in Spain.
Gronze has information about these early stages...
Tony, this is the second time you’ve asked this same question on this forum. Did you think the answers would be any different?
I’ll summarise the answers you’ve been given: anywhere takes cash; most places accept card payments. Spain is just...
On the rare occasions when I have had to email I have usually attached a translation of my message from Google Translate or similar. Keeping it short and to the point minimises the chance of misunderstanding.
I don’t know if you’re a walking poles person? I wasn’t but was persuaded to take a pair of collapsible ones by my wife as I’d ruptured my right quadricep tendons a couple of years back slipping on a hill and landing awkwardly. Although I didn’t...
My husband and I walked Del Norte in October/Nov. 2023. We started in Irun and walked to Santiago de Compostella Sept 29 - Nov 10. We had 5 rest days. San Sebastian, Bilbao, Santander, Gijon, Ribadeo. 42 days total. So it is doable in 40 days if...
Day 31, February 29th.
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We left Pedrouzo after coffee and breakfast at a local cafe for our final approach to...
Day 30th, February 28th. We left Melide(reunited with Christine who had come down to walk sections of the Frances) after breakfast at a local cafe heading for O Pedrouzo. I went ahead stopped for coffee and sat long enough to post a day's...
Day 29, February 27th. I left San Román da Retorta at 10am(the hostelero had said it was "todo tranquilo") and headed for Melide. After a few kilometers I came across a hotel bar that served breakfast in O Burgo that was happy to make me a...
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