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    Need Your Prayers !!

    Does that explain why the passport control person looked so hard at me when I left Santiago airport? There was no record of me having entered Spain, since I flew to France. I’m British, and hence an EU citizen, at least for another 10months.
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    20 truths about walking the Camino

    Most of those rang true, especially the first. When I was tired and in pain (i.e. in the afternoon), I got to the point where I responded to Buen Camino with an eye roll and silence.
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    Physical Recovery

    As the daughter of a GP, I have an instinctive aversion to visiting the GP unless I really need to. My logical mind says that, if I have indeed become anaemic through repeatedly walking 20K+ per day, then removing the cause of the problem should allow it to resolve in due course. I’ll see how...
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    Physical Recovery

    There’s only one hour difference between Spain and UK, although I was getting up earlier on the Camino, and going to bed a LOT earlier. Going to have to get used to not being in bed for 9.5-10 hours per night. My healing blisters itch like anything!
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    Physical Recovery

    I know it’s going to vary a lot based on age, fitness level, how hard you pushed yourself etc, but I would like to get a feel for the range of time it took people to feel normal again! I arrived at SdC on Saturday, having walked from SJPdP in 38 days, minus a little bus ride because of knee...
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    Amazing albergue - don’t miss it!

    Wanted to go there... it was closed :-(. Schlepped back into town, exhausted, and ended up staying in a hostel/albergue which had repurposed some of its hotel rooms as albergue space. Two pairs of bunk beds, sharing a room with a hotel bathroom attached - nice compensation for the wasted trip!
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    Fitness level

    I got home yesterday after completing my first Camino Frances in 38 days. I started at 275lb (at 5’ 7”), having done some training walks, but probably nowhere near enough. I usd most of the strategies outlined above: started deliberately with shorter stages by cutting SJPdP to Roncesvalles into...
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    Weight Loss

    As a fully-fledged, compostela’d peregrina, I can now add my two pennor’th. In 38 days of walking, 3 days of R&R in Santiago and a day’s travelling either side, I lost 22lb. Apart from occasionally thinking I wouldn’t drink the orange juice, I ate as much as I felt like of everything that...
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    Casa del Pescador, Ambasmestas

    Still do - but she’s a he!
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    Casa del Pescador, Ambasmestas

    I was already going to recommend this albergue heartily - the food is superb (home-made breadsticks and hummus to accompany the pumpkinsoup, followed by smoked trout from their own pond and fresh vegetables from their garden), lovely clean roomy bathroom and only €1 to use the washing machine...
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    The wait is over, but unfortunately the weight is over.

    You have my sympathy.... I was determined from January to lose some weight, but failed miserably. I did have a haircut before I set off, but that was to aid swift drying. But I can report that, 24 days into my Camino, my formerly tight trousers are distinctly loose. This despite eating as much...
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    Brushing up on my Spanish

    I used Babbel in preparation for my Camino and it’s been great. One or two oddities, though... I didn’t try too hard to memorise “Let’s open this tin of sardines, that one is out of date”
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    French trains strike

    They were on strike the day I travelled. There was a replacement bus, just took a little longer as we had to go to the intermediate stops for nobody to get on or off.
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    Biarritz airport to Bayonne rail station

    Pay on the bus, it will set you back a massive €1
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    Compeed use.

    And just to report back that, with 2 weeks of Camino under my belt, a dry dressing secured with micropore is a much better blister treatment than Compeeds. I would use them in everyday life if I had a blister, but not if I was going to walk for 3+ hours. They just won’t go the distance for me.
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