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    Update on Anniesantiago

    Annie, Last October I did the Komen 3-Day cancer walk in Philadelphia (60 miles in 3 days), and I did it primarily as a way of training for my next Camino. Time after time, someone asked me who I was walking for. My only response was, "For everyone who needs prayers to get through this." It...
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    Explain your forum Avatar (name and picture).

    My name, Pray'nwalk, is what I set out to do on my first camino in 2015. The plan was to walk from Avila. In August. In 90+ degree (Fahrenheit) weather. By the time I reached Toro, I had spent a night outdoors in temperatures that dropped considerably, gotten sick as a result, broken a...
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    The new and cleaned up Cathedral

    I first discovered the Forum in 2014, when I was planning to walk from Avila to Santiago (August 2015). I found it to be a source of information and guidance that gave me the courage and wherewithall to make a solo journey of a kind I had never done before. On my return to the States I...
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    This is not your normal forum! (A grateful thread)

    Ah, honesty and an open heart. They will take you many miles!
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    Pros & Contras of Camino de Invierno vs Frances

    I walked the Invierno solo in May/June last year, when I was 69, with an improvised detour to the Cistercian monastery at Oseira. I walked SHORT STAGES, aiming for less than 10 miles a day. I loved the solitude, the beauty, the shade, the birdsong, the up and down (I am a woman, and fairly...
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    Safety for women

    I am a 69 year old woman. In 2015, I walked alone from Avila to Toro, and from Ourense to Santiago de Compostela. In 2017, I walked alone from Ponferrada to Santiago de Compostela on the Camino de Invierno, with an excursion for a retreat at the monastery in Oseira. I also walked for a few...
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    New, illustrated English Guide to Camino de Invierno

    Yes, please. I walked the Invierno last May/June, using a combination of Laurie's guide -- excellent -- and the Spanish version of Asun's guide -- superb. Although my Spanish is very poor, and partly because it is so poor (it was hard to converse with people), Asun's guide was still very...
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    LIVE from the Camino Few Invierno questions

    I walked the Invierno in May and June. Just down the street from the Albergue San Nicolas de Flue in Ponferrada is a little hut manned by a Lay Franciscan named Roger. He knows much about the Invierno, and likes to be very helpful. He helped me plan stages and gave me the resources to make...
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    New, illustrated English Guide to Camino de Invierno

    This is very helpful information. Thank you!
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    New, illustrated English Guide to Camino de Invierno

    Thank you all for your replies to my post. I'm now in Las Medulas. I spent a few hours with Roger in Ponferrada, confirming the itinerary I had sketched out. I try not to use apps while hiking, as I'm really not clear what my plan with AT&T allows, and as you know, wifi tends to be hit and miss...
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    New, illustrated English Guide to Camino de Invierno

    Perhaps I am being very slow-witted, but I have not found a link in this thread to where I might buy Asun's guide, in English OR in Spanish. I'm on the Frances at the moment with a companion who has to return to the US because of an injury. So now I have the opportunity to walk a different...
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    New phone number - SIM Card for Camino

    I have some related questions about phone use in Spain; they will display my great tech ignorance. I have an iPhone 6, and at home in the US I use AT&T. My two year contract with them has expired (during which it is illegal to unlock the phone to change the SIM card). Can I now easily unlock...
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    Is it safe for a woman to walk alone on Camino?

    I walked from Avila to Toro, and from Ourense to Santiago de Compostela alone in the summer of 2015. I had no problems at all (notwithstanding camping out one night, getting sick, and breaking a toe), and it was one of the most blessed experiences of my life. Members of this forum stayed in...
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    Lodging from Ourense to Santiago

    In September, 2015, I walked from Ourense to Santiago de Compostela. I stopped for several days at the monastery guest house in Oseira for a retreat. The monks were amazing, and the monastery is awesome. In Silleda, I stayed at the very reasonable Hostal Ramos. The proprietors were extremely...
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    For those of you walking alone...

    I walked from Avila to Toro and from Ourense to Santiago alone last August-September, by design (only about 200 miles). I LOVED IT!! I would do it again in a heartbeat. (I am a woman over 65.) But on the days of total solitude, it did seem easier to focus more on the weight of my pack and...
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