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Hi Bill and Jayne and welcome to the forum! Will add you to the list now, the excitement is going to build all the time till you actually go! I was positively fizzing the first time and starting to feel just the same again. You will have a wonderful,amazing trip!
Hi Jessie , wish you a great journey and a Buen Camino , Peter .
Hi Jessie-k welcome! Have added you to the list now, at least half a dozen forum members leaving the same day! Hope you have a great camino.
Hi KLynn Finally after 5 e-mails I have had a reply from Jean-Jacques and managed to change my date to the 18th!!! So I will see you in Orisson if not before. Have no idea why he gave me the 19th, I guess I shouldn't really have paid up till I got the correct date? Was desperate for a bed? I know September gets very busy, very excited now.
Hello Sarah,
Hello , great place to start your Camino .Wish you a Buen Camino ,Peter .
Hello Rachel , I find it great that you walk with your dad . Walking to the alberque Orisson is nice , I did it to this year . You will have the evening meal together and everybody will introduce himself . It was a very
Hi Monica , wish you and your daughter a great journey . Buen Camino , Peter .
Hello , wish you both well and a Buen Camino , Peter .
Hello, we are hoping to get the bus directly from Biarritz airport at lunchtime on 27/8 to St Jean. Hope to see you there. My wife's is Bernie.
Hola Bernie and Denis! See you in St. Jean perhaps! Buen Camino!
I will be taking Poncho, no rain pants, on the 1st part of my camino I had hardly any rain. I'm 'only' going for 2 weeks though. i can guarantee you will have rain in Galicia.
Hi Sarah,
Nope. MEC staff are not on commission. When you pay at the cash register, they don't care who was helping you.
Good to know. Thanks!
I hope? Has been for me the last 2 years.
Please add me to the list, and many thanks!!
Hi Sarah & fellow pilgrims! This is Sue from CA, walking my first Camino and starting at SJPP. Start date projected for September 6th
Buen Camino!
Thank you for the welcome Sarah
I am so nervous and excited as this will be my first time traveling/walking solo....but looks like I'm in very good company! Wonderful!! Best to you and thanks again! ~s
Hello , you will love staying in the alberque Orisson and the walk to Finesterre is nice to .
Congratulations on your retirement! I really like Icelandair and hope you can take advantage of their stopover option. There's a nice Inn in Grindavik (closeby) that will pick you up at the international airport in Keflavik and take you back. It's called the Northern Light Inn and from there it's a very easy walk to the Blue Lagoon. If you want a floating massage at the Blue Lagoon, book early, though! The Innkeeper is lovely and it's like being in the coziest of places in the middle of a frozen tundra (we were there in December).
Yes I'm sure there will be Lydia, just not sure of the time? They will tell you at the Pilgrim's office or your Albergue or hotel will know.
Well, this is exciting for you all! Just to let you know that I will be on Camino from the beginning of September, offering first aid as usual. (possibly initially getting over a hangover after seeing Saint Mike off on his bicycle Camino
Will be on the Roncesvalles/Pamplona section from September 2nd and then working west to the Meseta.
This year there will be two of us as I am really pleased to say that I am being joined by veteran pilgrim and hospitelaro, Jenny H, from Australia, who is also trained in first aid (will be so good to have someone to laugh with when one of you screams or whimpers on seeing the tools of our trade!
Mainly based at Castrojeriz but don't be surprised if we appear anywhere from Roncesvalles onwards!
I will be putting up a specific post before leaving - the deal is this - as well as the first aid and pastoral care - if you get stuck, really need help, and we can get to you (we will have a car with us) we will come. Will be checking forum mails regularly so all you would need to do is to send me a pm with location and phone details. (If it is Mad mileage from us we might ask for a fuel donation).
Buen Camino!!
Hi Sarah, I'm putting this out because I couldn't find current postings in the 'Poles' thread. They were quite old, so thanks for reading this. I've been training for a couple of months now and yesterday took a pair of walking poles (bought cheap on line just for training here) and walked for 7 hrs, just to see what the poles felt like AND if I could do that many hours. I did fine, but was ready for a steak and a bottle of wine afterwards…. and I don't eat red meat! I do feel the poles definitely give some support, but what drove me absolutely nuts was the sound. Half way through, I stopped using them, but did start up again with them because I could feel the difference. I am one who loves quiet time, so I know I need to get used to the sound, not only of mine, but throngs of others. I will follow through and purchase my new poles in St. Jean, along with a rain poncho.
Hi Lynn I am in Toronto, and go to MEC when are you starting and from where, Aliwalks
Thanks Sarah….I guess I already knew that I eventually would get used to them, but even with the rubber tips on 'clickty clickety'. It may just these poles also. I'm still new and perhaps setting them down too hard; I also notice my left arm flailing a bit. Oh to be ambidextrous. I often wonder if I should take a rest day here, i.e. like after 7 hour walk. But I won't be doing that much on the Camino, so guess I answered my own question:>)Hi Maggie, glad to hear you are training with poles, the more the better and you will get used to them. They are really invaluable when you are coming downhill have saved many a pilgrim from falling. The noise you do get used to by sheer repetition but rubber tips are the way to go and I always carry spares. There is no rule that says you have to use your poles ALL the time, many poles collapse and can be strapped to your pack,by the time you get to the meseta you can walk for whole days without them.
Good on you for getting in up to 7 hours walking, I really must apply myself, nursing a shoulder injury so not able to use poles at all at the moment. I must admit once you are used to them it feels weird without!
Keep up the good work
Sarah
I'm your age Bob (until Nov 2) and am doing the same thing; overnighting at Corazon Puro; also walking St. Jean to Orisson, so you should be well ahead of me. I don't start until Sept 25. Buen Camino….
Hi! I may be as well. My daughter and I will be landing in Madrid on August 30 and not sure if we will be able to matriculate through spain to SJPDP in time to leave on August 31 or September 1. Either way we will start one of those days. We will be traveling to Finisterre in about 33 days total. 30 to SDC and then 3 to the sea.
Hello Aliwalks,
I just ordered mine from Ivar at the Santiago Store. I don't leave until Sept 21st, so it is sure to arrive. Leave St. Jean Sept 25th.
Hi Mike,
Hello C clearly, You are right. I have seen several backpacks that have features that I like however they don't have that nice wide hip strap. I did try on an Osprey...Sirrus, 26 L. Didn't have any assistance for feedback on the fit. Hmmm
Hi Sarah and Sunam,
september 1st james purdum iv (st jean) staying in orisson that nite
thank you so much!! lets do this!!
Hi, wish you both a wonderful journey and a Buen Camino, Peter.
I am from Norway and will be walking my first Camino alone, and I think I will start September the 3rd from SJPDP. Looking forward to it - and to meet great people!
Hello and welcome, September is a great month to walk the Camino according my wife. She walked from Sjpdp to Santiago in 2013. I wish you well and a Buen Camino, Peter.Hello everyone!
Hello everyone!
I will be leaving SJPP on Aug. 31. Please add me. Thanks!
Laurie D'Audney - Starting Aug. 31 from SJPP
Just a little delay, I hope, Rachel. Good that he didn't develop a bad knee after getting all the way to Spain!
Don't worry it will be there when your dad is ok to walk it, he must be ok as I and others have suffered before on the walk but you will get there.
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Add my name to Sept 3rd - Liz Morrison (St. Jean)[/QUOTE]
