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As we head into Camino season for a new batch of pilgrims, we are seeing the usual levels of anxiety that accompany first time pilgrims about to step into the unknown. So, to complement all of the usual "What do you wish you had packed?" or "What...
Thank you, perigrino_tom! I am actually leaving today for Portugal to begin walking part of the Portuguese Coastal and am starting to get a little anxious about many of the things you mentioned (weather, will I be alone, etc). February was...
You can look on booking.com for an apartment. I looked and there are a couple near the Cathedral. I don’t know about stairs… here are their names:
Inferniño Apartments, Apartmentos Atia Cathedral, Xavestre Rooms. Galicia Tours will take you on a...
You can but the way that I look at it is that my goal is to communicate my desires in the most effective manner and so I do what @Bradypus suggests and write out my request in English and then use Google translate to translate it into Spanish and...
There is an 'element' of that I think, but hopefully not widespread.
Though I think it's coming more from the point of do 'try it' at least.
I would guess that half of the active members on here use private accommodation!
I did on my first 3...
I understand that an albergue might turn away someone walking the opposite direction because it is not, presumably, why the albergue is there, but I do have a hard time with the notion that the limitation is because the Camino infrastructure is...
My husband and I are on our 7th Camino right now, the sparsely traveled Camino Mozarabe in SE Spain. Groups of volunteers run the different sections of the Camino and give you codes and things like that to get into the albergues since there are...
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