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My (Belgian) uncle used to live in Dana Point (on his boat!) when I was a little kid in the early 1980s. I have beautiful of memories of visiting him there. Beautiful sunsets, laidback friendly people and lots of seals.
I feel the same, Davebugg, and it seems there are a few of us! I don’t dislike people at all and I don’t mind listening to conversations, but I feel like my own little island (and I like it that way).
In the past though I have sometimes felt that it was a “problem” and that I should overcome it...
I’m also reasonably fit (not an Olympian by any means) and I walked to Roncesvalles on Sunday from SJPP (in torrential rain!), it wasn’t that hard.
Just go all the way, you’ll be glad you have. You can stop for a coffee in Orisson and be happy that you have something else to occupy the rest of...
My mum also lives right by the church in a sleepy town renowned for its artful bell ringing. So not only it happens every quarter of an hour but it’s practically a full concert every time. 😂
But it’s funny how you get so used to it that you don’t notice it at all when you live there.
When I was walking that section I had never read about it and did not know what to expect. For a (long) while I did wonder if I had taken a wrong turn and was in fact walking on a dried up river bed.
Then two your girls who had stayed with me in Manjarin the night before caught up with me and...
There’s something I never quite understood though. The distances mentioned in guides, are they distances between geographical coordinates or are they *walking* distances taking into account the various inclines and declines?
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