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You could take up knitting. I take a ball of yarn to knit a pair of socks in my downtime (after I’ve journaled and blogged). Weighs 100g. You might find yourself chatting to people too.
I am on the Camino but this is what various family members saw in New Zealand - the first picture was in the South Island and the others in the North where we NEVER see this!!! (until now)
I’ve only rarely been checking the forum while I’ve been walking, but after seeing your original post, I popped back to see if there might be an update. Such good news. May the healing continue….and everyone else who is waiting for surgery on this forum experience as good an outcome as you have...
All the best Dave. Just this week I spent the evening at Tardajos with a relatively young woman who had a pacemaker and her 16yo daughter. They had been walking 30, 35, even 52km!!
Another option if you come right would be to start at Burgos and do short days. Or from Porto. Both of these stretches are mostly flat. Remember how you are today is not how you will be in a month.
They will definitely have room! It’s an enormous place with only nine nuns (that I saw in a week) and only two other pilgrims came for one night each - and there were at least six rooms, possibly more.
Glad this may help you. Incidentally, Lorca is the closest village if you wanted to bus to...
Once you have had medical help, if you just need rest, I can highly recommend the Monasterio de Alloz not far from Pamplona. Private room with bed with sheets and towels and three Spanish meals a day, €40
You are welcome but not required to attend services with the nuns
I know I can Google, but I am also interested to hear if anyone has a specific recommendation for a good dentist in Burgos. I am a few days out from there and seem to be developing a toothache so if it doesn’t resolve itself I will probably try to get it checked while I am there. Thanks
There were at least 20 mattresses in the Fronton - I’m sure they could have stayed there, but regardless, they could not stay at Ventosa. Clearly some of the in between stages are filling up.
I spent an afternoon plotting out the next week - and checking that I could get accommodations t the...
Last night I had a booking in Ventosa. Two ladies I had been walking with did not have bookings and even though they were the first to arrive, they did not get beds because this “in-between stages” place was fully reserved. They rang every place on Gronze in Najera, but they were all completo so...
I was not planning on being on the forum while I am walking, but I want to highly recommend this monastery. I have just spent a week here, although it is more common for pilgrims to just spend one night (during the week a French and Spanish pilgrim did exactly that)
You get a private room with a...
See you in Pamplona for breakfast!
I’m one eleven hour flight down and have made it to Singapore. Another 11 hour flight which has been delayed and hopefully I will make my connecting flight to Madrid!
After walking caminos where I comfortably tackled 35km, 40km, imagine my consternation to get tendinitis in both Achilles and not be able to walk even 1km!
That was six months ago and I’ve been doing strength exercises for the legs and gluteus maximus under professional guidance. No meds for...
Is it possible to buy locoid cream over the counter in a pharmacia?
It’s the one thing I might need - but most likely won’t - and if I knew I could get it easily in Spain I would not take any.
I think it’s very cool (is there a map that’s not to love?) AND at the same time I find an irony in walking paths being portrayed as public transport!!!
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