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Hi everyone!!!
Just a quick post here about our experience walking the Camino with my fur baby Fuji. Still travelling (another 12h drive day today), so full write up will come bit by bit over the next few days.
While preparing for this trip, I...
Hi currently on the vdlp and thought following might be useful to others. I’m only on day 3 so will try to update from time to time.
Have stopped in Guillena, Castilblanco de los Arroyos and Almaden de la plata. Mix of private and municipal...
Norte 2023 was the first time I actually put some training into Camino. I walked a lot of stairs at home, a lot.
First week in Spain was mountains and mud. After that it was pratically all asphalt. I took as many coastline alternatives as I could.:
In reply to BarbaraW - first of many I think as a lovely post - further up I suppose I wrote about the rather bleak "cost calculation" to so many careless humans living on this planet but there is so much more to being human than a balance sheet...
I agree in general with others' comments about the relative merits of Muxia and Finisterre. Two other thoughts:
Since you are walking with your daughter, you might try to anticipate what she would like most. Finisterre certainly has more of a...
It's often been said that the Camino, as well as everything around it, can be a reflection of one's inner habits and philosophies on life as a whole. I've been reflecting on this myself for the last few weeks, as I expended an unbalanced amount...
Recycling is good but it wasn't voluntary, it became law, with fines for not doing it. The same with the move to less polluting cars .. expensive clean air zones and so on, not voluntary, not choice. So there is no virtue in it.
I do see a lot...
There is a useful thread here.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/guide-to-the-camino-de-ucles-in-spanish-and-english.66324/#post-1207181
We have now completed the Camino Mozarabe, walking from Almeria to Merida. Gerard and I documented our walk, in English and Dutch, in our Find Penguins blog, which you can access here...
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