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Good for you deefbro - start where you feel comfortable depending on your time restraints - that's what everyone has advised me.
Wonderful site, amazing members - cannot believe the help and advice given - 'The Calling' is so strong and once you hear it, it never leaves you!
Do keep me...
Hi All - just had a conversation with someone about bed bugs.
Any tales to tell, tips/advice please - his experience was most unpleasant and it was in a small hotel, not an albergue?
haha - you and the 12000 who used to view our website each month!!! They are still 'my babies' and this weekend we shall be enjoying a massive plate of them!! They are very precious to me and so is the name Padron and the Monastary - I am just so, so sad. I've not eaten at la bodeguilla de...
As a visitor to Padron for some years and the first grower in the UK of Pimientos de Padron in 2004, I am so, so sad to learn of this news. I wish more could be done to protect this beautiful, peaceful and historic location - is no where safe any longer? Below, a photograph of our crops...
Hi angelafinnigan - thank you and yes, I am going to do it! I'm just reading Pilgrim Tips and Packing List by S. Yates with Daphne Hnatiuk - brilliant book, simple, easy to read and full of fantastic tips/hints and advice - if you don't need it - don't take it!!!!
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Hi Nancy - thank you for your lovely message.
I was actually in Valderrey/Astorga from 25th June to 3rd July this year and it was stunning - that was my first look at the Camino.
I take your point about the weather in May and concur - my friends in Valderrey would send me weekly updates of...
Thank you freeflyer123 - how wonderful - put me to shame now!
I love the camaraderie that is created by a simple Path - I've just returned from walking my dog across the fields looking at the barley and wheat, imagining I was in Spain - except
of course the weather now, here in England, is not...
Hello Stefania - perhaps we will meet on our path?
Thank you for your comments - my quest is just that - my questions are many - I suspect my answers will actually just be one.
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This is wonderful advice - thank you so much. As I need to be back in Valderrey for 27th May, I can work my route from your advice. I know the Galicia region well, having been the only grower/producer of Pimientos de Padron in the Uk from 2004 onwards - my visits to Galicia to ensure I...
Dear fellow walkers - what can I say except a MASSIVE THANK YOU!
Your warmth and readiness to offer help, advice and encouragement knows no bounds.
It appears you are all correct - once the Camino gets into your 'head' it never leaves. I take on board all you say and feel humbled by the fact...
Hello all - a little bit of help is needed please.
I have this incredible desire to walk some, part, a few steps, hundreds of kilometers of the Cameno and yet, I don't know why?
The urge is terrifying but the desire fills me with warmth? "You won't know why you walk the Camino, until you...
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