For 2024 Pilgrims: €50,- donation = 1 year with no ads on the forum + 90% off any 2024 Guide. More here. (Discount code sent to you by Private Message after your donation)
Not sure the hotels/Albergues pay Gronze to get their hotels listed?
Not sure if Gronze pulls (updates) “prices” from these establishments and frequencies?
Not sure if these establishments push (update) their prices to Gronze.
Supply and demand influences prices. Such “economic forces” also...
As a precaution:
I do not give my debit card and credit card to any person in any establishment in my home and foreign countries. My cards are always in sight.
Malicious people can duplicate debit/credit cards in very short period of time.
My I have a "side question" in this thread! I am pleasantly surprised to learn that one can collect stamp in the Cathedral St. Andre in Bordeaux. Would some Cathedrals in Paris, Lourdes, Marseilles and Lyon also stamp credentials? Many thanks!
B.com also "sells" shuttle services. Providing free taxi service for you may be one of their promotion strategies.
I have reserved one for my trip in France next month to see how it works although I am very satisfied with SunTransfers when using its shuttle service in Europe and Southeast Asia...
Malicious people would make use of the passport or/and information in the passport to forge identity. As such, I wouldn't take any chance and immediately report the lost of the passport.
My experience was in 2017 and I think it wouldn't has changed much ;-)
#1) when stepped out of the albergue around 7:30 am, there were already many pilgrims on the street(s). I just followed them.
#2) I was/am "a snail", not even a turtle, on the Napolean routel, I reached the Albergue in...
When I flew Air Canada for my CF serveral years ago, their check-in counter in the airport provided me a large see-through plastic bag to "contain" my backpack and hiking pole as one a large bag and security-scan / checked it at a diffenret place, no hassel. Not many airlines provided such...
In my experience, some don't. But they would direct the luggage transfer service sending the luggage to a nearby bar/cafe for you to pick up from it. The bar/cafe has a specific place to "store" the luggages.
If the luggage is required to be delivered to next stage, it needs to be placed in a...
I also think it's not advisable to get into a vehicle not knowing the driver, etc.
When I needed a ride on the CF, I went to a cafe and asked the storekeeper to arrange a taxi, It was about
ne Euro per kilometer in 2019.
When I do my trail walk, which is part of my physical and mental fitness program, I walk fast and hard. When I walk Camino, I'm primary a pilgrim, as such, I try to stop by chapels, churches, shrines, cathedrals. I'm also a casual tourist. I walk and take rest at will.
When I was preparing for my first Camino Frances walk by watching videos in YouTube, I paid attention to trail surface, elevation, etc. Some videos showed some trails looked like near "cliffs", which was not my "cup of tea".
When I actually walked CF, the conditions were not that scary and...
Even though "stuff" made of Gore-tex is a little bit pricy, it saves me not to carry spray-can and time to re-spray. A quality Gore-tex material is waterproof, breathable, and windproof.
While in Braga, Portugal, you may want to find time visiting the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte, a UNESCO site.
It was quite a workout for me climbing steps in many "zip-zap like" stages to the top, but rewarded a good meal at reasonable cost in a restaurant at the top!
The Braga Cathedral...
This site is run by Ivar at in Santiago de Compostela.
This site participates in the Amazon Affiliate program, designed to provide a means for Ivar to earn fees by linking to Amazon