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  1. dougfitz

    Help getting lodging past Sarria

    It seems to me that you have been told several times in this thread that there are some of us who wanted to take a different approach to 'powering through'. More, some of us think that the way you present your preferred options appears to leave little room for the discussion of other options...
  2. dougfitz

    Help getting lodging past Sarria

    I can only say again, @isawtman, this might have been your experience, it wasn't mine. To me it is a pretty seaside fishing village that makes much of its location as not quite the westernmost point on the Iberian peninsula. At the right time, I have no doubt that the Atlantic swell crashing...
  3. dougfitz

    Help getting lodging past Sarria

    This made me wonder what it would be like living a life driven by some need to be continually foregoing what I am currently doing to search for some new experience with an expectation but no certainty that it might be 'more spectacular'. I wondered how often I would find myself disappointed...
  4. dougfitz

    Death of German peregrina in Zuriain this morning

    May they rest in peace.
  5. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    I'm not sure why you are finding this a problem. As others have pointed out, it is the same rhetorical logic that you have used yourself, so I wasn't expecting that you would find the proposition all that difficult to accept ;)
  6. dougfitz

    Help getting lodging past Sarria

    When I first walked, I was walking solo at the point that I reached Sarria, and I did this. When I walked from Sarria a few years later with my wife, we took a few more days, and I had a much more pleasant experience, despite the so-called crowding. I get the impression that @falconbrother is...
  7. dougfitz

    Help getting lodging past Sarria

    I would be checking Gronze or one of the many Camino apps for albergues and other accommodation providers, and contacting them directly by text or phone. I have heard different stories about what percentage of their beds they offer on sites like Booking.com, but clearly many hold some beds back...
  8. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    The only Santiago with a sea port that I can recall is Santiago de Cuba. It is the only one of the five major Santiago cities located on the coast. There are many more locations named Santiago. I didn't check how many were also ports.
  9. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    What a wonderful example of the rhetorical fallacy formally known as an ad hominum, or perhaps better known in this case as 'shooting the messenger'. If properly implemented, it could become an instance of that management policy 'the sackings will continue until morale improves' as we eliminate...
  10. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    I have never seen these, but I have never walked the alternative routes you keep thinking exist as a way to reach SDC. Those that I have seen on the formal routes don't, at least in my view, lend themselves to the interpretation you are suggesting. Rather, I consider @Kathar1na's explanation is...
  11. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    I understood that is where London Bridge is located. Clearly evidence that the Thames flowed there!
  12. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    On this basis, the Thames River once flowed through Lake Havasu City in Arizona! I suspect that many small towns and villages adjacent to the narrowly defined camino routes already get some benefit from the camino. I know that over the years, I have stayed in such places, and have spoken to...
  13. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    Thank you for sharing this. The incident that led to this might well have been distressing, and out of character with our expectations of pilgrims on the Camino. Nonetheless, to me this looks more like confected outrage or a journalist looking for a story to fill some space than anything else. I...
  14. dougfitz

    Is it okay to have no plan for the first Camino? 🌙

    My experience walking from Lisbon to Fatima was slightly different, but I don't think I saw any Portuguese pilgrims. It's not that they weren't there. A couple of the albergues from Santarem to Fatima were full of cycling pilgrims. It was only after Coimbra that I saw Portuguese pilgrims heading...
  15. dougfitz

    Is it okay to have no plan for the first Camino? 🌙

    I have many credencials, several now complete and one waiting to accompany me on my next Camino de Santiago. All those issued since 2016 have some form or other of a Spanish phrase 'El Sepulcro del Apostal, meta de la Pregrinacion Jacobea' or an equivalent Portuguese phrase on the one I...
  16. dougfitz

    Is it okay to have no plan for the first Camino? 🌙

    She may not be asking for detailed advice, but she asked for more than just a starting point. Asking about whether one would be able to stay in albergues without booking raised in my mind whether it was her intent to walk as a pilgrim, and obtain a credential, which would be required for her to...
  17. dougfitz

    Roncesvalles or Burguete?

    I have done both, but when my wife and I pushed on to Auritz/Burguette, we had stayed the previous night in Valcarlos. I wouldn't have done it leaving from SJPP. We didn't have bookings until we arrived at Roncevalles, where we checked what was available before setting off on that last leg of...
  18. dougfitz

    Is it okay to have no plan for the first Camino? 🌙

    I had been puzzling over how to make this very point, although I might call walking until one is hungry or tired more a strategy. There are other 'strategies' that I find useful because they allow me to tailor what I do next to the circumstances at the time. If you are walking without booked...
  19. dougfitz

    Is it okay to have no plan for the first Camino? 🌙

    Maybe, but she has found this forum where past pilgrims and even prospective ones have been helping each other for many, many years. We will help, but we need some help understanding how best to do that!
  20. dougfitz

    Is it okay to have no plan for the first Camino? 🌙

    I am with @C clearly here. More, if you think you consider yourself a pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago, rather than a random hiker out for a cheap holiday funded by the efforts of the many Spanish and international volunteers who support pilgrims at great personal expense, then you should be...

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