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  1. Maureen O'Donoghue

    BBC Program "Celebs" on the Camino

    Update: I completed St Jean to Burgos in the summer of 2018. The heat was pretty fierce but I survived.
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    Free Concert in Guimaeres this evening

    Hello there will be a free concert in the Igreja de Sao Francisco at 7.30pm of choral music for Kings and Queens including works by Handel, Victoria and others. All welcome.
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    BBC Program "Celebs" on the Camino

    Watching episode 1 has me wondering if I could cope with the summer heat. The mountains looked magnificent. I've done Burgos to Santiago and the Camino Primativo but not the earlier part of the Camino Frances. Being a teacher it would be easiest to do it midsummer, a time I've avoided previously.
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    Walking the Camino Primitivo as a 17 year old male

    There is an app for the Camino Primitivo which I have found useful when walking alone where the route seemed unclear. It is by Wise Pilgrim. I met one 17-year-old travelling solo who seems to be enjoying himself. Spaniards seem keen to feed him up. One elderly lady fed him tea and plums from her...
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    Whaaaat?? Pilgrim's Office count 3013 today.

    I received my Compostela late afternoon yesterday. The line extended out into the street but the time passed pleasantly enough, chatting to other pilgrims and the volunteers. The office was coping fine. They may have been busier earlier in the day. The really epic lines are for masses in the...
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    Feast of St James

    I started out from Oviedo on 9 July and sometime on Friday I should reach Santiago. Any advice on events planned for the feast day would be much appreciated. Are any special arrangements made to cope with the high number of pilgrims due to arrive on Friday and Saturday? There must be more than...
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    Pilgrims friends who don't finish

    I saw someone yesterday struggling along the lovely path between As Seixas and Hospital das Seixas who clearly needed a pair of crutches at the least or better still to stop walking and allow an injury to recover. Congratulations to all those posters above who didn't push on regardless. I think...
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    Where I found WIFI on the Primitivo

    I have found somewhere everyday so far (Oviedo to Ferreira). If the place I have been staying hasn't had Wi-Fi one of the bars where I have stopped has. I am posting this from a very solid casa rural. How the signal gets in is beyond me. It cannot penetrate the stone walls to reach the dining...
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    How busy is the primitivo in July/August?

    I started from Oviedo on 10 July. Setting out this morning from Lugo (after a rest day) was the first time the route seemed busy. As I entered the main square I saw more people approaching with back packs than I had seen in the previous 9 days' walking put together. Oddly I saw no one at all...
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    Walking 9 to 5?

    "The Long and Winding Road" by the Beatles "Walk this Way" Aerosmith "Walking Back to Happiness" Helen Shapiro "Walking on Sunshine" Catriona and the Waves "Just Walking in the Rain" Johnny Ray
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    LIVE from the Camino Is finding accommodation on the Camino Frances, becoming too stressful?

    I met a number of people who couldn't find a bed in Hornillos del Camino in April. Some showed up at San Bol on Palm Sunday when I was staying there having had to travel 5.8km further than planned. The others I met further along at Sahagun. They said had taken a taxi to Hontanas to find beds...
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    Smart Packing and Unexpected Backpack Items

    A small booklet called "Libro de Oracion Comun" published by the Catholic Truth Society. It includes the Order of the Mass and a number of prayers in both Spanish and English. As my Camino started on Palm Sunday I knew I would be going to church in Spain several times in addition to Sunday...
  13. Maureen O'Donoghue

    Post-Camino withdrawal symptoms / blues

    I arrived in Santiago in time for Sunday's Pilgrim's Mass. On Monday evening I was back home in Moscow and on Tuesday I went back to work. After a month on the Camino it is weird to have so many things again. As I dropped my rucksack in the hall I realized I did not have to use anything in it...
  14. Maureen O'Donoghue

    Wrong focus?

    I'm enjoying the planning. I was on a business trip to the UK last week and grabbed the opportunity to pick up a few items from the equipment shops there which would be harder to find where I live in Russia (an elastic washing line, a whistle and a sink plug). I am grateful to contributors to...
  15. Maureen O'Donoghue

    Easter Sunday 2014: Burgos or Leon

    Hi Geraldina, Thanks for the link. I am really looking forward to the ceremonies and processions. This confirms that staying anywhere that insists on everyone being in bed by 10pm would be a mistake during Holy Week. Buen Camino Maureen
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