Gosh @alexwalker why so harsh?
This thread is under miscellaneous topics afterall.
IMHO the discussion about walking/ hiking is very interesting and I remember we also discussed this in other threads about European trails.
Great thing about...
A. You can opt out of reading any thread on the forum that you want. 😉
B. This thread is about the concept of walking vs hiking, and for many people where they are doing the activity makes a difference. People are just giving examples.
Just finished a 300km walk with my 2 boys and did a section of the France last year. They loved it both times and we saw younger children along the way. They are 16 and 14 now. None of the Albergues we went to seemed to have an issue with...
I keep hearing here that there are more Portuguese that speak English than there are in Spain. That might have an effect on pilgrims' choice of Camino's.
A lovely fresh morning heading south east on Dublin Bay. Long years ago, this area, in the video, saw multitudes of working class Scots have their seaside holidays in Boarding Houses. Long before airbnb. The lady of the house might cook, or the...
Rick, not far from me is the "Ice Age Trail" that meanders nearly 1200 miles all through Wisconsin. Problem is that many sections are little used and overgrown. Volunteers are always needed to keep little used sections open. I assume the New...
I haven't been on it for close to 50 years. I did around 90 miles in Massachusetts and an adjoining trail in New Hampshire on a multi-day hike once. I only had one problem with it, the trail and it's markings disappeared at one point. I saw a...
I'm a bit embarrassed that I often get tagged in threads like this as if I'm the forum authority on walking with kids - but it is true I have walked the Camino with eight of them from six to 18 years years (and hiked at home with all of them from...
When I walked with my teenage son in 2016 there was a Korean family who were walking with a 5 year old daughter and a 7 year old son. They were walking the same distances we were, and the kids had more energy than us at the end of the day. I...
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