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Many pilgrims use corners and bushes as toilets.
In an attempt to minimize these makeshift toilets, I offer two suggestions:
1. Use the toilets and the cafés on your path, bonus deed: buy a bottle of water or a snack to help them run them (costs of paper, cleaning, offering a stamp).
2. If...
If for whatever reason you can't fulfill the 100k rule to get your compostela or if the pilgrim's office line is too long, don't despair!
Thanks to a tip from @mazzarina I learnt that the Convento de San Francisco de Santiago issues a similar certificate but they are not as stringent with the...
If you pass by Caldas de Reis, make a reservation at a nearby "balneario" and soak your weary bones in these mineral waters that gave the town its name and that have been soothing travelers for hundreds of years.
I visited the Balneario Dávila and I can't rave enough about my experience. My...
Greetings peregrin@s!
We will be walking the Coastal Camino from Matosinhos to Santiago in September.
My questions are about the Matosinhos-Redondela Camino portion (and Senda Litoral) for those who have walked it.
Do you rely on yellow arrows/gps/both?
If your rely on yellow arrows, are...
Ultreia!
I bumped into this page from Correos (in English) about camino movies.
From the list, I was able to find only the Martin Sheen one (The Way) and this one, which I loved:
Tres en el camino is about a Japanese, a Brazilian, and a Dutch pilgim doing the camino at different seasons. It...
Good afternoon and thank you for this wonderful space Ivar.
Given we're halfway through 2022, do you see camino pilgrim numbers similar to pre-pamdemic years?
Moreover, the Pope extended the Holy Year from 2021 to include 2022 due to the pandemic.
I just wonder if I should expect huge...
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