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  1. timr

    Preparing to open the road to GSB (Un travail de titan)

    I saw this link on FB today and it is useful to give you some idea of the serious nature of snow around the GSB pass. This is saying that the snow has been very heavy this year, but that the pass should be open by mid-June. There is no fixed date for the opening every year. The pass is open when...
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    León Restaurant Recommendations

    I have eaten three of four times at La Catedral. It is very close to the Cathedral - facing the front door turn to your right, It is just 100-200 m. Not super special, nor super expensive, but usually has fresh anchovies or fresh sardines.
  3. timr

    Camino Primitivo for younger person

    Yes I cannot help, but when I walked in May in 2016 I have to say it was 'teeming' with young people, and very enjoyable too! I walked in a loose group with several changing ensembles. We split up when I took Ruta Verde through Friol and Sobrado, completely alone, but met up again in SdC. Sorry...
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    Right quad pain, ok to push through or something to be worried about?

    I don't want to appear too negative, and I am very glad @Dave2525 that you had a good outcome. :)🤕 For myself, I would not take medicines from anyone who could not tell me, without having to resort to Google, the common and the dangerous side effects of any medication they were recommending...
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    Right quad pain, ok to push through or something to be worried about?

    Exactly as @Peterexpatkiwi says. As you have come to the point where you realise you need help, you should seek professional help. Now. A pharmacy will be able to direct you to a clinic or a physio. It continues to baffle me (as a physician) that (well meaning and generous) people are so...
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    Pork in Spain

    As I said I got interested, though the industrial agri sector is far away from any of my areas of expertise! This enormous building outside Fraga, looking rather 'space age', evidently turns out 110 tonnes per hour of feed for industrial piggeries. Not acorns.....🐷:-(
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    Pork in Spain

    Thanks for the figures. I was just estimating that in all my time walking in Spain, the number of days I saw pigs "out in nature" could be counted on the fingers of one hand. They number of days I did NOT see, and usually smell, an industrial piggery could probably be counted on the fingers of...
  8. timr

    Maybe a little late with my planning for le Puy...

    @BillW Thanks for great and very encouraging information. Just wondering why the numbers get less as you go forward??
  9. timr

    Maybe a little late with my planning for le Puy...

    Hello @Walden I like your planning strategy which largely matches my own! I cannot help you at all with Le Puy though by chance yesterday I was looking at it a bit and just wondering! Did you walk VF through France? I ask in relation to language. I found that every bit of French you can...
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    National passport in card form

    Thanks for reviving for a moment a most enjoyable and civilised thread...... Happy Travels. Tim
  11. timr

    A new departure for me, Barcelona.

    You are getting plenty of encouraging advice. I have always found Barcelona great. Just to say the bus service to the airport is very efficient and quick and every half hour or possibly more frequent during the day. You need to get a different bus (from the same stop) depending which terminal...
  12. timr

    Camino Verde trail conditions?

    It is a long time since I was there, but the (very simple) accommodation - shared dormitories, was extensive. Gronze today lists 98 places. You cannot get in (or get out) between something like 2pm and 4pm. I don't think you should have trouble getting a place though. Vespers at about 8 or 9pm...
  13. timr

    New Forum Topic... Portable Clothes Wringer?

    If you wait the answer will always materialise!😉 The CSJ/Camino Pilgrim Spring bulletin came in the post today. It’s a great read. And on p 57 in the Refugio Gaucelmo report we read…. “The spin dryer, loved and marvelled by all pilgrims, finally stopped working in October after giving...
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    LIVE from the Camino Feels Unpleasantly Busy on the Camino Frances (May Day, 2024)

    I did invierno in Nov 2019 just before Covid. I have never been so wet, continuously! That is beyond control. But….I’d do it again. 😉 I met no one. And infrastructure was perfectly adequate.
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    LIVE from the Camino LIVE from the Camino de Catalán

    @Undermanager A delight to see your reports of a new adventure. Buen Camino. I walked a few stages of Camino Catalán in November - the Camino Ignaciano joins it (in the opposite direction) between Tarrega and Montserrat. It finishes up in Manresa. Day 9 sounds wonderful - how fortunate to meet...
  16. timr

    Camino de Madrid

    It looks fine on my phone. I’ve screen grabbed. Is it any better for you? It’s a list of abierto - open and cerrado closed. It looks very useful, dated 27/4.
  17. timr

    Great Saint Bernard Pass Hospice

    @Joan Fiol (Gronze.com) Just to acknowledge something I have seen several times before! Gronze replied to a message through the website in less than 20 minutes and the corrections made to the website almost immediately. It is a GREAT service and very helpful that they branched out to cover VF a...
  18. timr

    Great Saint Bernard Pass Hospice

    You don't have to stop at the 'top'. If you start at Bourg St Pierre in good weather you could get to the hospice and continue on, on the same day, either to the hotel on the Italian side of the lake - less than a km further or to another hostel here on Gronze.com only 2km further on...
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    Great Saint Bernard Pass Hospice

    I am generally not a booker-ahead myself, but I have seen on occasion that people have found the hospice full. During the high summer season, I think possibly school parties or maybe scouts are accommodated. If you look at the booking site you will see that it is full on 20 July, and quite a...
  20. timr

    Via Francigena official site down?

    Yes at 2209 in London. I mean yes - same problem 😱

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