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  1. J

    Research on Pain Coping Strategies on the Camino

    Really - what has most of this thread to do with the Camino? Moderators? (Maybe warrants a research project on polemical strutting of Camino academics, wife beaters and iconoclasts 😃 )
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    Research on Pain Coping Strategies on the Camino

    I also agree with Janet. I guess us academics have a habit of always knowing better ways for other people to do their research! Restraining myself here from commenting on the commenters research advice - other than to point out it too maybe has its flaws!! 😊
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    Need a new route (March 2023)

    How about branching out further and walking from Arles to SJPP and then Bazatan on to Norte? Or cross over someplace from the Arles to the Piemont and then via Col de Somport and Aragones on to Bazatan and to Norte? France a different experience!
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    Alternative Ways to Reach SJPP from Bilbao: Help Needed for April 2022

    Hi Took the bus from Bilbao to Bayonne in November 2021 (several leave each day between the two cities. Journey takes about 3 hours). Worth comparing ticket cost across the various bus lines - can be significant différences in prices. Can’t understand why this is so. I do a live comparison on...
  5. J

    A Walking Journey of Magnificence and Safety through Portugal's Camino in December 2021

    Enjoyed your personal story of your 600km Yukon. Thanks for sharing. Joan
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Traveling Unvaccinated to France

    Hello Sherry, As other people have said above - who knows what the story will be in Spring ‘22? But Covid will certainly not be gone by then. To give you some idea of the approach currently being taken in France - just today Olivier Veran (govt minister ) at a press conference said the tests...
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    On the road again...?

    Walked from Orthez (France) to Finistere, starting off late October 2019. Never slept in a ditch! And never starved! Arrived Finistere properly into December. Not infrequently I slept alone in municipals, private albergues and occasionally above a bar etc. Fantastic snow storm around...
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    Arles and Piemont - link-across options please?

    Yeah well maybe not - re gîte! But please check am I ‘chez nous’ when/if you pass through my general neck of the woods - not too many forum pilgrims pass around here - and would like to walk a stretch with you. Though PS am an old bat and walk slowly!
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    Arles and Piemont - link-across options please?

    Tom- Just for the sake of completeness: Had popped over yesterday to check the piece of the GR7 you mentioned earlier as being of interest to you - that is Villepinte to Fanjeaux. Very well signed - every 3rd to sixth Telegraph pole is marked and there are also subsidiary local signs. (For...
  10. J

    Arles and Piemont - link-across options please?

    Tom: From Villepinte to Villasavary the path is the GR7. It will be marked (balisage) with the standard GR markings. But I will pop by shortly and have a look where it takes off from the canal and verify that it is actually marked - can’t envisage whether it is - though I remember there is a...
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    What is open on Camino Frances in Winter?

    Absolutely second the comment above by IT56NY Quote: ‘most of all listen to the people who live there. If they say stay then stay. if they say it is good to go then go. Nothing beats their lifetimes of local knowledge.’ I was on CF same place, same time (more or less) in 2019 and the local...
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    Arles and Piemont - link-across options please?

    Don’t know what happened there! Too late at night. Enjoyed the opportunity to share. Thanks for your kind appreciation. Jenny - Castelnaudary seems too far to glimpse from that hook on the Arles, but the church stands proud on a colline and there is not much else of significance looking south...
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    Arles and Piemont - link-across options please?

    Ooops - have just been outed as having lurked extensively on the forum for many years! Thanks Tom !! LoL In my defense I will blame the fact that I really have had little extra to contribute to the conversations - am often impressed by the knowledge and Info posted by the ‘regulars’. Anyway...
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    Arles and Piemont - link-across options please?

    Tom, Lived for years near Fanjeaux and now live between Villefranche- de - Lauragais and Castelnaudary. The Chemin du Piémont is wonderful - with relatively few walkers. I agree with your logic - that the place to step off Chemin d’Arles is at or around Montferrand and then walk to Fanjeaux...
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