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(Soon-) Live from the Camino del Salvador - starting end of April 24.
We are currently on the Camino de Invierno around 43km before reaching Santiago - from there we will catch a bus to Leon to start the Camino del Salvador on Thursday. Luckily...
actually a combination of heat, dehydration and stupidity on my part. but i like the idea of it being frivolous. there really is no dangerous stage along the Camino apart from our lack of preparation, awareness and bad judgement on a particular...
Sad news, Nely closes her albergue in Almería, La Estrella del Camino.
Here's her message:
Donativo doesn't work: recent pilgrims were leaving not more than €2 . And that includes breakfast! In February, she started asking €20 per person, and...
A Camino friend just asked me about stages and accommodation on the Lana, which I walked last year. I realized I hadn’t posted a day-by-day, just a general post with some overall impressions. So here’s the day-by-day. I also recorded the tracks...
I agree...it really doesn't matter if your shoes or boots are goretex or not. I have both and it really does not matter. I have expensive waterproof socks and even using them with the goretex boots after a while you end up with wet feet.
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...
The stages are really based on two things: lack of villages to make all the stages the same length or so and elevation changes. I’ve walked from Bayonne to Bilbao and it’s definitely a different beast than the Frances. Not overly difficult, just...
Or fly into Bayonne and start walking from there! It’s a beautiful walk along the coastline to Irun and you can literally start from the airport without any need for a bus or train
A few to start with.
Primitivo has many many more pilgrims and more infrastructure. More infrastructure means more ways to break up the stages, though the Invierno has a fair number of possibilities for both long and short stages. Fewer...
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