Update! I did this climb from Bar Julia this morning in the light rain, and it was absolutely magical, and MUCH less difficult than I imagined. In fact, it was my favourite part of the CI so far. Thanks to everyone for their advice, and if you are reading this and haven't yet walked this section...
Thanks, Tia Valeria and AML. We had a lovely blessing service this morning and our priest has signed in the first box. We will put Ferrol as our official start place, though, as it seems that will be better understood. Can't wait for tomorrow!
Hi - my sister and I are about to meet with our parish priest who is going to give us a blessing in our church before we travel to Spain (by air). I would like to fill in my home, or the church, as my 'starting point' on the credencial, and have the priest sign in the first block, as we have no...
Thanks for this link - regardless of the accuracy of the information, it's useful to have the spoken Spanish commentary with English translation alongside. I'm always surprised at the speed of Spanish speech - the Mexican Spanish I learned as a child tended to be at a more relaxed pace. These...
Well, I'm not doing anything like 4 hours a day! More like three hours in the gym a week. And unfortunately I will never have the best beach body at 65 :-( But I have set the gym treadmill at 15% (its max) and aim (after warming up) to do a kilometer at my usual walking speed of 5kph. Later I...
And it DID enable me to set up my treadmill to best advantage, so thank you! I'm sorry if others have been negative about your helpful and informative answer to my original question. I had no intention of provoking a philosophical discussion about the merits of researching the route! I think I...
Fantastic! (And I see what Sabine means about coming out of Pontedeuma). Thanks so much!
Travellingman, you are so right! The reason I wanted to know the gradient in the first place was so that I could set up a treadmill to practice the climbs. I live in a very flat part of the world, and the...
Muchas gracias, everyone, this is all extremely helpful! I was much alarmed by Ivar's map, until I realised the huge difference in the horizontal and vertical scales. It looks like it's doable after all - not really any steeper than some of the climbs I've done on the Wainwright Coast-to-Coast...
Hi all,
I've done a forum search for this answer, and not come up with anything specific yet , so I'm hoping someone more skilled at interpreting those elevation charts of the camino stages can help me.
As the weather is still intermittently wet and gloomy here in England, I've been training on...
My sister and I (she from San Diego CA and me from England) will be meeting up in late August to walk the Camino Inglés from Ferrol. We are a couple of sixty-something ladies, so we will be looking to split the stage into Bruma into 2 days. At this point we are working hard to brush up our...
My sister and I (she from San Diego CA and me from England) will be meeting up in August to walk the Camino Inglés from Ferrol. We are a couple of sixty-something ladies, so we will be looking to split the stage into Bruma into 2 days. At this point we are working hard to brush up our Spanish...
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