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  1. Tincatinker

    Shortest section between Camino del Norte and Primitivo.

    I always use Gronze as a starting point when researching routes and possibilities. Map.cz and Godgle Earth and Maps are all useful for cross referencing elevations and identifying off-track accommodations and points of interest that might have escaped the notice or interest of the guide writers...
  2. Tincatinker

    Help getting lodging past Sarria

    @CWBuff, thank you. I’ve been wondering why some of my subtler jokes didn’t fly and now I have an understanding 😉
  3. Tincatinker

    Masks might be required by law in Hospitals and health centers next week

    My sympathies @WalkingInGers. Nasty little bug. Still killing but yesterday’s news. I guess people confuse Pandemic, everyone will catch it except me - with Endemic every one might catch it except me. I still get told to remove my mask, glasses, false moustache and wig every time I go...
  4. Tincatinker

    Disfrutar named best restaurant in world.

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  5. Tincatinker

    Train from Chamartin to Leon

    I’m sorry but you have no chance whatever of making that connection unless you can teleport. Flight landing times are “wheels on ground” not through the gate, border control, and any necessary transit between terminals. In your circumstances I think I’d be planning a night in Madrid somewhere...
  6. Tincatinker

    Paulo Coelho's "The Pilgrimage" to be made into a Netflix movie

    One comfort: it is unlikely that a film of that book will result in a new wave of pilgrims ;)
  7. Tincatinker

    How crowded will be Santiago in mid-June?

    Hi @Erwitt, welcome to the forum. If I've understood your question correctly then you are planning a touristic trip to the city of Santiago sometime in mid-June. That seems a perfectly good plan. The city will be busy but the crowds will be nothing like those in late July. It is a popular...
  8. Tincatinker

    Gronze - Difficulty Ratings

    I can appreciate your concern. For me the facts remain. It’s the same distance, the elevations do not change. The only available variable is your personal capacity to walk that distance and climb that hill. My advice, if sought, would be to disregard any “star” systems, hazard advisories, or any...
  9. Tincatinker

    Rest day in SJPP?

    Doesn’t it really rather depend on what we mean by a “rest day”? If I want a rest day I want to take it somewhere with few if any distractions, no “go to “ sights and at best two bars one of which is open when the other one isn’t. So, from my angle, a small French provincial town with few...
  10. Tincatinker

    Francigena in southern Italy

    I’ve just spent 6 weeks in southern Italy. Some walking on pilgrimage routes and some meandering by train and local buses. Some Italian will transform your experience. Even just the niceties, numbers and “Dove posso trovare un letto per la notte?” will help. Pointing and smiling works but “per...
  11. Tincatinker

    Gronze - Difficulty Ratings

    Does it really matter? These are all but arbitrary indicators. One person’s mountain is but a hill by another’s standards. I was amused a few weeks ago when mapy.cz told me that the walk to Materea Centro Historico from Materea Porto was going to take me 1 hour and 50 minutes while the return...
  12. Tincatinker

    AA Meetings on the Camino Inglés

    Dunno about on the route. It’s a five day walk for most. But there are daily meetings in Santiago. https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/aa-meetings-in-santiago.86932/
  13. Tincatinker

    Cammino Retico

    Limited time? A seven day walk takes seven days. Access and egress will add a couple more. That said it looks a great route for anyone who wants to go hiking in Italy rather than walk a Camino
  14. Tincatinker

    ATM colour chart

    Ah well, so much for the accuracy of information on the internet. Still, €2:50 / €4:50. Only about the variability in the price of a beer 😉
  15. Tincatinker

    Walking from Santander to Gijon commencing 18 June but worried about accommodation...

    Hi @Pegstar, welcome to the forum. You are asking a couple of the great un-answerables but I do understand why you're asking. https://www.gronze.com/etapa/santander/santillana-mar is probably the best resource for accommodation information and does specify which are bookable and which are not...
  16. Tincatinker

    Santiago to Muxia / Finisterre - break stops

    Gronze is pretty good at showing the facilities available at any given point on the route just look for the "beer mug" or "plate, knife & fork" symbols https://www.gronze.com/etapa/santiago-compostela/negreira
  17. Tincatinker

    Backpack transport

    I really am trying to be helpful but I’m lost in your question. Using luggage transport is not compulsory and is easily avoided by packing lightly. Packing what you need rather than what you can pack. If you’re planning to use transport some days and carry your full kit on others then you need...
  18. Tincatinker

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    Hey, could we make smoothies and cappuccino illegal as well? It’s cafe con leche or nowt
  19. Tincatinker

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    Okay, I think this is far enough for me. This far but no further. A Camino predator says he’s getting overwhelmed by the migratory herds. Sorry, a professional guide to the Camino says he can’t cope with the demand. Turismo Galicia have sown their seed and now they can’t find their sickle (?)...
  20. Tincatinker

    Camino fatigue?

    I’d kind of planned my swan-song Camino this year and then got distracted by Magna Grecia and the early Christian churches of southern Italy. The echoes of Byzantium on the walls of a monastery cut into the rock of ages gives a context I’d nearly lost sight of. The linear city we call the...

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