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My better half has a pacemaker and uses an Osprey Stratos 36. We pinned a folded wash cloth over the spot where her unit is placed in her upper rt chest, and that seemed to ‘remove some of the pressure. I would recommend trial runs with a pack, remembering to carry 90% of the weight on your...
I join with all the other posters in giving a BIG THANK YOU to Ivar and crew for starting and maintaining this site.
And I hope the 1M poster is someone who has yet to walk and that receiving the guidebook will be the lighting of the fuse to do the Camino soon.
Holiday wishes to all,
Hugh
I did it in June 2018. It is not a pilgrims walk per se, but it does intersect and share sections with some established/signed routes. There is not much info in english.
I did answer your pm. Walk north to south, join vrenden op de feits. If anyone else is interested, the following is a link to...
Just go and enjoy. 2 caminos, 4 mass attendance (2 were pilgrim mass), 3 swingings (very lucky!). The best (and last) was when the small nun sang most of the mass AND the botafumeiro swung.
Both my late parents always encouraged me to get out and live life, even in the last couple of years they were still with me, and they knew their time on earth was short due to deteriorating health. They always said that it brought them joy to see me and my wife out and about the world.
After...
We stayed here in 2018. Nice accommodations. Our nephew’s partner’s parents stay here when visiting Madrid.
Just be aware of pickpockets; lost 20€, and my nephew’s friend lost over $200 in the touristy areas of Madrid.
We switched from Verizon to T-Mobile 55+ with the international plan in 2015. Better pricing that included the ‘free, 2-yr iPhones, no more looking for hotspots, no more carrying a second ‘international’ phone outside the US. No more calling issues when we visited Canada, Peru & Ecuador...
I suggest getting the blank credential(s) for obtaining your compostella and using your book to collect a duplicate. I did this with my sketchbook which added a special flavor to my image. This way you can meet both needs.
BC,
Hugh
In 2014 when we completed the Frances, we experienced the butafumiero twice, first on the day we arrived in time for the Pilgrims’ Mass, then again 3 days later at another Pilgrims’ Mass, neither being a Sunday. I don’t recall seeing any benefactors, but recall someone saying that a very large...
Tincatinker has it right. Your camino never ends. Having walked twice, I have found that the 'destination', ie Santiago, is but a waypoint where I celebrate my arrival, ponder about what I have just experienced an learned, and the contemplate the next stage of the journey.
In 2013, we did an overnight ship crossing from Lisbon to Le Havre across the outer reaches of the Bay of Biscay/"edge" of the Atlantic. That was the worst night I have ever experienced. We were aboard a small 500-person + 350-crew, 600-700-foot ship that got tossed like a feather in a storm...
I borrowed this book from our local library prior to our walking the CF in 2014. After having read cover-to-cover, I thought it was such a great reference tool for so many aspects - history, religion, art, culture, etc. - that I bought an ecopy from Apple books for my iPad (my electronic...
The Pieterpad is also a beautiful walk. We did this walk from Pieterburen to Maastricht in 2018. It also intertwines with sections on a Camino route that wanders along the Dutch/German border.
There are so many other trekking routes in the EU as well. And I really like how the routes connect...
After our 2014 CF, we have been walking more and driving and biking less. As Turga noted, we too, are seeing small changes here and there on our daily walk-abouts of our small city of Eugene, OR; we probably wouldn't have noticed them unless we walked. And its nice to be able to smile, nod...
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