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Amigo-----------------Yes, I have plans to walk the Via de la Plata this coming spring. Did you go the Ourense route or Astorga after the route splits? I've walked the Camino before ('01, Via Frances, and '04, from Astorga) and am so looking forward to another go at it. Anything in particular...
ticket to ride:re: us----seville
Muchas muchas gracias (on this day-after-the-day of El Dia de Gracias in the US of Ahhhhhhhhhhhhs). I'll check out the websites with diligence.
Howdy-----Hoping to walk the Vdlp in sping (we're seasoned pilgrims, walked the Camino Frances in 2001 and 2004)) and wondering how best to get to Seville from the US. US airlines sometimes have a month time limit for decent tickets. Know any European carriers that are more accomodating? Know...
ruta interior
Howdy. Just looked up the new Ruta Interior from Irun through Basque country. The online brochure said there weren't many albergues yet, and that many of the casa rurales and hotels were off the pilgrim path, but accesible within a few kilometers. After a long day, a "few...
Aussie walking in September
Hi sport! Welcome to the inner-family of pilgrims (and returning pilgrims). My husband walked and I walked the Camino when he was 70 and now, four years later, we plan to walk again. In September. If you run across two old coots from North Carolina, that...
to cross or not to cross, that is the quandary
Gordada, Do it! Wear a lightweight knee brace, use a walking stick (any ol' stick will do) for the descent. I, too, am in my 50s, walked from SJPP...and am planning to do so again this year. The MAIN THING is to make sure that no storms are...
Hi. Two of us---older but hardly wiser---are planning to walk the Camino for the third time (how does this happen anyway?). We are thinking of starting in Oleron, France around the first of September and crossing the Pyrenees to Jaca...and so on. And on. Anybody done the Oleron/Pyrenees thing...
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