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We started March 10, 2018 in Pamplona. Finished April 6. Snow, strong wind, cold. But a week after we finished, floods. Have layering options. Get more experience in walking outdoors. Synthetic layering options gives you flexibility to handle all weather and keeps your pack light

Plenty of road walking. Worst is on the way into Leon. Best to take the alternative route which most guide books mention

I don't understand why you are panicking. Your international SIM will work on roaming. Seems all you need is for someone to be able to call you so you don't actually need data. No idea on Vodafone. I used Orange in March April 18. Got the guy in the store to set it up and test it. Did top ups in...

Keep it simple. Pick a clean shop. Go with the lead artist even if you have to wait. Post care is easy but important. Touch ups not needed if.you keep it simple. Make it meaningful to yourself. You will know. Always wanted a tat. Had to be 57 and do the camino to figure out what was important

We did Pamplona to Leon in 14 days. Still had time to stop and check out the sights. we averaged +-30km a day and usually 6 hours walking. All depends on how fast you are and how far you can go

Go up a whole size or more. Vaseline the feet and tape toes every morning. Sock liner and sock. All reduce friction and need the extra space of 1-1.5 sizes up

not really. typical for quite a few of the folks hiking around us. Pharmacy prices in Spain a quite high - as is the quality of the products. Mostly paper tape, bandaids and elastopast tape plus vaso, ibuprofen and blister packs - we replaced them daily as they didn't perform as well as promised...

My wife and I finished the Camino Frances on April 5th, 2018, in 27 days. We had a blast but I have a few observations on finances. All notes below relate to 2 people and our experience may differ from others. Aiming to give s simple summary of one topic I found confusing on this forum Credit...

Day 26 - one day to go!!! We had hoped to get our last day under 25k but there was not much suitable accommodation from 28km out until our end point. So we made it our longest day - even setting off early Today we set off into the Galician four seasons in one day weather again. Our...

Day 25 - Toast, coffee and juice - fuel for pilgrims. Sometimes 2 euros sometimes 5. I had an early work call and lots of emails to deal with. We said hi to the French ladies we shared dinner with - they have spent 5 years walking 300k each year from Mont St Michel in France to Santiago in...

Day 24 - A day in the rain. Although we also had some sunshine and went from cold wind and rain to hot sun and sweating several times. We started in Saria and ended in Gonzar to achieve 31km and a total of 672 Today we passed the 100km to go marker and we’re super excited to be close to the...

Day 23. Today started in a toasty warm room in the snow. We had breakfast of fried eggs, omelet’s, toast and coffee. We headed out into a cold, overcast day. Like yesterday, The trail was covered in snow so we elected to follow the road for a few kms. We got thru to a village and began to...

Day 22. What a challenge this has turned out to be! We started off in Vega de Valcarce and expected a tough day. We knew we had a climb from 650m to 1340m - the third highest on the Camino. We also expected some bad weather. What we didn’t expect was the fresh snow from the night before. We had...

Day 21 - I love adventure, I’m addicted We have less than 200km to go. We have had such a great time and every morning now we wake up and ask each other - what can happen that could stop us? We both have the same answer- hopefully nothing. We are determined to finish. Even as our bodies and...

Day 20. We managed another 1km today starting in El Acebo and finishing in Camponaraya. A good nights sleep mostly, only interrupted by our neighbour and an early morning work call. We had light snow as we left El Acebo, no breakfast as the kitchen was not open. We walked 5km to find a Forrest...