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  1. Flog

    "What a hardcore thru-hiker can learn on the Camino de Santiago"

    Good points. To give his piece more weight, his statement that 'there are towns, hostels, and bars at two-hour intervals the entire way' does ignore the fact that The Ways are a whole network of paths and feeds into the impression, which still prevails, that The Way according to Martin Sheen...
  2. Flog

    Ride share Asturias Airport (OVD) to Oviedo cathedral: 08/21/24

    If you can't round up any punters to share the cost of a taxi, there's a regular bus every half hour or so, right outside the terminal building.
  3. Flog

    Santiago to Vilalba

    I bought a ticket for that bus late last year at the intermodal in SdC. I'm pretty sure I bought it earlier on the same day.
  4. Flog

    How to Volunteer in SdC?

    There's not really any demand for volunteers between late October and early April, even some of the permanent staff are off.
  5. Flog

    Alternative to Pamplona for overnight

    Fifty posts and countless suggestions later.. With that in mind, why not just sleep in the place you've already booked and take it as you find it? Meantime you can put it out of your mind until you arrive there. Trust it will all be fine, and it will.🙂
  6. Flog

    Volunteering at Pilgrim’s Office in Santiago

    Oh, I'll be a few days behind you..
  7. Flog

    How to Volunteer in SdC?

    Of course there is.. Generally, if the pilgrim is honest and straight up, as most are.. they are treated with respect and compassion. If they are a blatant liar and taking the piss, they are likely to be treated less favourably, as in all walks of life! But as a new volunteer, you'd be guided...
  8. Flog

    Best way to walk near unfenced cows/cattle

    Yes, I remember wading through cattle several times on that route in particular.. As with all animals, a soothing voice in whatever language. Pass gently without sudden movements, dont flail about the place and never pass between a mother and calf.
  9. Flog

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    It isn't openly on display and it's rarely asked for. But it's sometimes offered as a consolation prize to someone who doesn't qualify for a compostela. A pretty certificate in it's own right!
  10. Flog

    Volunteering at Pilgrim’s Office in Santiago

    I have. You'll be shown what's what when you come, so really no need to stress about the details for now!
  11. Flog

    Volunteering at Pilgrim’s Office in Santiago

    Your duties as a volunteer will be the welcoming of pilgrims and giving them their compostela, as before. Even with much of the process automated, it is still a personal service.. it's a nice place to volunteer! I will be there myself in early October.
  12. Flog

    Is this a thing I can do?

    A new pair of shoes will get you across Spain. For the sake of simplicity, would you not just get a new pair of your Hoka things, whatever they are.. now, before you go, and just walk to Santiago in them?
  13. Flog

    Compostela: Electric Bikes Excluded?

    Oh, I don't! When a decidedly unfit looking man's credencial shows he's cycled 500 km from Burgos in three days, and when asked in a friendly way if he did it on a bicicleta electrica and he insists indignantly 'No, solo bicicleta normal', Then I see him and his friends outside on the street...
  14. Flog

    Compostela: Electric Bikes Excluded?

    It probably wouldn't make a great deal of difference anyway if the PO changed the distance requirement for e-bikes. Plenty of big fat, middle aged men claim compostelas, supposedly having cycled all the way to SdC under their own steam, fooling nobody but themselves. Same goes for bus tourists...
  15. Flog

    "What a hardcore thru-hiker can learn on the Camino de Santiago"

    Interesting article, thanks! The author admits that us 'dorks' have more in common with his brethren than he likes to admit!
  16. Flog

    Camino fatigue?

    I don't know the answers to your questions, but I do know I've had days like these.. tiring days, boring days that I question what I'm doing here at all. I'm always glad of my own bed at the end of a camino, but still, the longing comes back. Nothing will ever compare to the magic of that first...
  17. Flog

    Ferry from Somo to Santander ?

    Yes, it picks up at Somos and a little further along at Pedeñe before crossing to Santander. Crossings are about every 30 minutes, current price €3.60
  18. Flog

    Not quite Camino footwear...

    Nice article, thanks! €700 for a pair of shoes sounds outrageous, but I can certainly appreciate all the work that goes into them. They have well heeled customers, too!
  19. Flog

    Porto to Villa do Conde

    It's a hard one.. we had to let our 14 year old dog go last year, she was really one of the family. Buen Camino
  20. Flog

    Low fee ATMs. Where

    It would indeed be helpful, but for me at least, life's just too short and it's all too confusing.. I'm very lucky.. I can drop everything, jump on a plane and go walking across Spain for a month at short notice. When I run out of cash, I can go to a hole in the wall, get another clump of...

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