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Maybe you should think about walking from O' Ceibrero If they have not trained very much it will be tough going for sure. It is really pretty walking but if you are really struggling your enjoyment may be limited. I am 70 but have walked many...
The only time that I would wear rain pants while out hiking would be to protect my lower body from a very cold wind rather than rain and even then there would need to be snow or ice on the ground. You are very unlikely to encounter this on the...
Ach, forget the “should”
The key is whether you can carry your pack day after day with a level of comfort. Of course you don’t want to be carrying stuff you really don’t need, but there’s no ‘rule’
This was my husband. So many thanks to all of my fellow pilgrims who stopped to help and to pray and to translate for me.
He was doing what he loved.
Thank you for the news article link.
Well done to create such a useful resource. What I'd like to see is an app that helps pilgrims to find Catholic mass on the Camino. I wish I had the skill to create one myself. It'd make a big difference to bible-bashers like myself
All people tell you to carry water. So I always carry (on the CF) 500 ml water. And I drink beer. That way I always have enough water, bc I don't touch the stuff.
That's why I tend to consult two or three apps as well as perhaps a guidebook or two on my Kindle app and Gronze. Between all of them, I can get a decent list of possibilities to check.
Between about mid October and about the end of March the only way to know for sure what’s open is to contact them directly. What’s app works well for this.
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