As above, you’ve just spent x days walking to Santiago.
Pretend you're from somewhere else and slow down and smell the roses.
A Spaniard in your position would probably just have lunch.
The Primitivo is a hilly walk through Lugo, where you have a gentle approach (and many more pilgrims) to Santiago.
As a first timer, the Portugues is less strenuous.
Both routes have plenty of infrastructure and camaraderie!
Do you mean the Camino Francés? It's about 800 km from St Jean Pied de Port to Santiago, but there's no requirement to start at St Jean - it's just an arbitrary starting point used by guide books and websites. You can start anywhere along the...
This was the reason why I left the albergue La Almazara, and walked 6 km more to Villafranca de los Barros on VdlP.
Being a gentleman, I didn't want a young German girl feel unsafe sharing a small room with a stranger in the middle of nowhere...
This afternoon I arrived in Zamora 🇪🇸 to start the Vía de la Plata/Sanabrés to Santiago de Compostela. This will be a test for my new hip which I received in March🚶🏼♀️👟 🎒. I've walked this section of the Camino before, hence the title.
Many...
@trecile as you know I don’t drink water but I have seen the “buy a bottle of water” scheme run in every class of restaurant from Manchester to Marrakesh via Miami and Moscow. In some of those I would probably go for the bottle but I would insist...
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