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Yes, and if you have a lot of Social Media friends, maybe wait to post your trip info and photos AFTER you get home...I don't count the forum here as I still want to see your "Live from the Camino" posts and I don't really know exactly where you...
All good things and suggestions by others. My last suggestion is to leave your brain at home and just walk and accept what happens and remember how lucky you are that the Camino has allowed you to walk and share in the magic. We forget...
OK, I know I'm and over planner / over thinker.
Pat and I have a checklist on the Fridge door that we go through when we go away.
We are both the type that asks the other as we drive off down the road......
"Did you turn the cooker off"?
"The...
I just turned 70. I too am an old decrepit pilgrim. Doing camino 9 this October. You have early accommodations booked for a couple of nights. Don't know if that takes you to Pamplona. You did not say what kind of places you want to sleep in. Is...
Currently in Burgos. I also went back and forth with my packing before I left, and thought I brought too much. Has been cold, wet, and windy (and sometimes hailing) for the past 5 days and I’m grateful for every piece of clothing that I brought...
I'm starting April 17 from SJPP too, and these posts about cold and snow, and similar posts about rain and wind further along the route, have me constantly changing my packing list. Extra merino thermal in, extra merino thermal out; thermal...
Seems like I've committed a faux pas, thank you for the heads ups and I even managed to figure out how to edit the title of this thread!! Waist pack it is ;)
TBH I’ve generally stuck to plain cotton briefs, I don’t walk in the warmer months and if I get a sweat on, I’m going too fast.
Having recently robbed a bank I invested in a pair of ex-officio’s finest. They’re quick dry, but I can’t really say...
All Albergue List Last Update: January 2024
This Resource was first uploaded in 2013 and has passed through many revisions over the years. We have not had any updates since 2017, but today @wisepilgrim has been kind enough to offer us this...
My favourite stamp is from Casa do Funil in Mértola, Portugal (on the Caminho Nascente). They are not used to receiving pilgrims and didn't have a stamp. But the owner is a sketcher so he sketched and painted a little stamp for both of us showing...
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