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Thanks for the ideas, I will have a look at the map. I'm not sure how I'd feel about the lack of company over so long, I don't socialise a lot at home so might be okay, but thanks for the heads up.
Why Lisbon / Faro, basically to see more of the country. The is disappointing to hear about the...
Thank you @lindam, @Rick of Rick and Peg, and @lt56ny for the advice/suggestions. I've just started digging into them.
I hadn't considered starting in France as my French is worse than my Spanish (and thats non-existant, but I've started learning in), but I'll dig into it and see.
Last year I did Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago, then Santiago to Finisterre, then Porto to Santiago (more coastal route).
This year I am hoping to spend 3+ months on the Camino. Ideally walking only 20-35km a day.
Kinda thinking completing North, South, East/ South East.
Def want Lisbon...
Thank you everyone! It will be nice to have an evening/afternoons entertainment where I can just switch off.
Not quite made it, in Palas de Rei eating dinner and escaping a thunderstorm. I’m due to arrive on the 8th in Santiago, it could be the 7th but I promised someone I’d walk in with them...
Thanks for this thread. I am quite seriously looking to do Lisbon to Santiago (probably coastal route to keep temp down) when I finish the Camino Frances in a few days, but wasn’t sure how best to get to Lisbon.
The answers are perfect!
Still alive. Have a bunch of posts in nearly complete form that I need to post. Currently in Astorga … didn’t really see any of it (naughty boy!). Tomorrow Rabanal del Camino … place is like to check in to isn’t open till 2pm Refugio Guacelmo and likely I’ll arrive at 11am if I keep at my...
Day 21 of trip
Day Frómista to Carrión de los Condes. 18.88km according to app. 19.18km with Phone GPS (minor detour). Was walking quickly. Which Fitbit doesn’t like 🙂
Weather: pleasant to warm
Terrain/: pretty damn flat, easy going
Shocked I only woke at 6:40, was hard to get to sleep...
Day 19 of trip
Day 16 of walk.
Today was Hornillos del Camino to Castrojeriz (19.47km)
Weather: cool, grey and minimal sun (nice to walk in)
Terrain: light off-road, couple bits a bit stony, and then road.
Another poor sleep, a common theme of the Camino but managed to sleep till 6:25.
45...
(My notes are a day behind, and I could add more)
Day 18
Burgos to Hornillos del Camino ~22km
Weather was pleasant but cool
Terrain most flat, gravel & roads
Woke up at 3am freezing and no blanket to put on top to warm me up. Found out later that someone had left the nearby fire escape door...
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