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Thank you very much @Luka: after reading you and @geraldkelly I confirmed flights and everything else! Will put myself in the hands of the camino!
you are very right @geraldkelly ! but it wasn't the Camino itself, more the specific trail...
You might happen to count me as a pilgrim, while I am not. 😅 I will be walking the Sanabrés half May and am having most of my training walks on (parts of) the Norte. However I prefer to avoid the Norte's asphalt where I can.
To add my grain of...
Last May I walked the first part of the Norte in the opposite direction, from Santander to Irun. Since I only had two weeks and couldn't reach Santiago anyway, I wanted to swim against the tide, especially since the most beautiful stages were...
This was exactly my plan indeed. Just ask pilgrims who have spent the night there if they wouldn't mind to walk the first few kms out of Oseira together.
But I think I know how it feels, @LuciaP. I used to be terrified as well. What...
I haven't checked if it was mentioned already, but there are also quite few alternatives to the Camino's asphalt between La Caridad and Tapia de Casariego. Look at these tracks on wikiloc...
I'll be walking there in a couple of weeks as well. And planning to stay in Oseira. I hope the situation is solved by then, but I thought about trying to organize a group, so I won't walk alone there.
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Clearly there's a problem about 3km after Oseira at the moment. Someone's dogs are running wild. Hopefully they'll get them under...
Luka, you want to suggest to the pilgrim rabies shots if it broke the skin! I don't use FB,
I won't go into my rabies story but in the end I was glad I got the shots!
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