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To explain -- I walked the Norte in 2007 and suffered mightily with all the pavement. In fact, I found my foot in a walking cast for about 4 months afterwards due to the pounding. Tarsal tunnel is what they called it.
I went back to the...
I had the same results as you, and then read somewhere that you cannot buy Renfre tickets more than one month in advance. So I waited and voila! It worked.
Forget about waterproof shoes or boots. There's a good chance that they would make your feet hot and sweaty in May and June. Plus, water will still get in if it's raining heavily enough, and they will take much longer to dry out than...
I'm going to leave a note here for posterity, in case someone comes to this thread looking for answers.
Right now, credentials can be bought in the Malaga cathedral's museum gift shop. It's a little hard to find the entrance on your own, so...
I have an interest in programming languages. Haskell has always been on my to-do list and this looked like an excellent project to get me over the initial hump. There's a lot of stuff where I really need to go back and re-engineer some stuff...
Just pretend like the bars are paying public toilets. I've never had a problem going to a café, handing over a euro to the person running it and say "por los aseos" (for the toilet) - if you want or need anything from the cafe at that point
We (my wife and I, 60 years old) hiked up to O Cebreiro from Las Herrerias under heavy cold rain and in the early morning darkness last October. We took the trail, and would do it again. It was muddy for sure, but at no point did we feel it was...
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