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It is encouraging to hear that so many pilgrims have learned one of the most important things the Camino teaches you.
That the last thing you need is another piece of paper.
The bag should weigh about half that weight.
I walk 2 caminos every year and my bag is no more than 6 kgs with everything I need.
It would be a little heavier in winter with extra clothes and rain gear but much of this would be worn so the actual carried bag weight wouldn’t be much different
The Camino needs pilgrims.
Scare stories of a crowded Camino Frances are not helpfull. For a few days at the end of May and end of August there is pressure on accomodation for a few days after St Jean but after that it is fine. I walk every year and have never had to sleep out and only a very...
August is not busy on the Camino and sadly when I walked this summer it was almost completely deserted.
Hopefully next summer there will be many more pilgrims for the albergues and cafes and to make it more of a Camino experience but I am not optomistic, many people are still afraid to travel...
The best kept secret of the Camino is how great it is to walk in June.
Many believe it will be too hot so it is not busy but it is rarely very hot and often cool but none of the snow I have encountered up to the end of May.
Hi Nigel
I certainly would not wish to discourage you but probably the Camino with enough infrastructure for 4-8 km stages is the Camino Frances but then only from May to Sept.Also northern Spain in December is usualy cold and wet, think England in January.
There might just be enough open...
I walked from Pamplona to Astorga, my seventh camino.
It was a very strange experience with very few other pilgrims, often seeing only 4 or 5 a day, many albergues are still closed ,even in the large albergue in Sahagun there was only one other pilgrim.Hardly any internationals, some Spanish day...
The Camino needs you.
Yesterday I only saw 4 pilgrims in 26 kms from Ventosa.Most albergues and cafes are still closed with those open desperate for pilgrims.
I know many still cannot travel to Spain but it is possible from most of Europe and even from the UK where I came from it is possible...
I left Pamplona on June 21 and I am in Logrono.
The Camino is still VERY quiet, there are a surprising number of French pilgrims and of course Spanish many with day bags but hardly any other nationalities.
It is a very different Camino at the moment.
Its my favourite climb on the whole Camino, I always use it as a test of my fitness. Into my seventies I can still do it without stopping which is a camino miracle as just about the only exercise I take is walking the Camino.
Last September as the sun went down over the idyllic Tuscan landscape after another gloriously sunny day on the Via Francigena,having aready walked the Portuguese Camino and part of the Camino Frances earlier in the year I reflected on how good life was but surely something had to happen,it...
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