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Hi, everyone! My family and I walked from Astorga to Santiago de Compostela this July and I wanted to share my videos I made of the hike, along with a video of my packing list for anyone who is interested in that sort of thing!
Here is a link to the YouTube playlist: 👉 Camino Francés Playlist...
Hello! If anyone is interested, I wanted to share some YouTube videos my mother created documenting her time this spring walking from Santiago de Compostela to Finisterre with my father and my aunt. They've been walking the Camino Frances in installments for the past ten years, and this trip...
I've never gotten a tick on the Camino, but they are in Spain so I assume they are along the Camino too, especially if you venture off the walking path. I just listened to a really informative episode of the podcast Ologies about ticks (link here, might not be family friendly though due to...
I haven’t read any novels about the Camino de Santiago, but I think old school guidebooks are nice!
I had one for the Camino del Norte/Primitivo walk and found it very useful! It had a little info about the towns I walked through—it enriched my experience knowing a snippet of history and...
Thanks for your responses! Directly contacting the albergue or Gronze is a good next step. I did see there are plenty of other accommodations options. Thanks!
@Felipe, I'm not so much interested in hypotheticals. I just want to know if the "temporarily closed" marker is a regular practice of...
Hello! I'm just looking for some clarification on the Gronze site listing of the albergue de peregrinos in Cacabelos. (screenshot attached) It is listed as a seasonal albergue, and as temporarily closed. Is the "temporarily closed" marker to show that it is not currently open due to being...
I want to emphasize how important strength training is to prevent injury during endurance activities. I am a certified running coach (RRCA) and have run several marathons and one ultra marathon, along with having walked the Camino Frances from Pamplona and the Camino Norte/Primitivo from Irun...
I just perused the dozens and dozens of selfies my husband and I took walking the Camino Fancés for our honeymoon in 2016 after skimming this thread. And if anyone seemed grumpy or passive aggressive about it at the time, I certainly don’t remember them! 😂 We were having too much fun together!!
Thank you so much for all of your suggestions, everyone! We are back from our trip, and I wanted to share what we did. Even though we went a different route than any of the suggestions in this thread--I'd asked only a couple days before we left so I actually didn't see all of the replies before...
Hello! I'm going to be in Barcelona and was wondering if anyone has gotten Covid tests or knows about getting tested within Barcelona (other than than the airport testing option)? I found info about testing sights at different metro stations, like the Sagrada de Familia, on...
I love this thread. I live for ghost stories.
My partner and I walked the Camino Francés and spent the night in Foncebadón, and a few days later we walked a bit with a man who said Foncebadón was "really haunted." We'd stayed at El Tragu de Foncebadón and didn't experience any funky energy at...
My husband and I intended to hike the Kumano Kodo in Japan in April. I miss the days of only worrying about bears and poisonous snakes!
Since Delta has extended their change and cancellation fee waivers for flights leaving through April 30th, we are going to postpone our trip until December...
I studied abroad for 10 months in Salamanca in 2010-2011 and lived with a Spanish family, and they always ate very well. The only fried thing I can think of is croquetas occasionally. There were always three courses including bread (Naturally, you can't have a meal without bread in Spain!), but...
I have a short podcast episode about my experience walking the Camino del Norte. I'll include the link below in case you're interested. It's a little under 20 minutes long. As a disclaimer, I am not an expert and am not qualified to write a guidebook about it!
You could also find it by...
Thank you for your responses. I knew there were a couple poisonous snakes on the trail but I truthfully wasn't too worried. My understanding of snakes was they generally don't want to be around people. (Though I'm not an expert at all.) So my main plan was to pay attention and not step on any...
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