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  1. nalod

    Reduce the use of Plastics on the Camino.

    This may have been covered before but it is useful to mention it now. We should all know the damage various plastic is doing to our enviroment. We can all take simple steps (excuse the pun) while on the Camino to reduce our use of plasitc. Bring a metal water bottle with you and refil at...
  2. nalod

    Smallest Albergue on the Camino?

    Is this the smallest official Albergue on the Camino. It is on the Sureste and is the town of Petrer about 46 km from Alicante one day after Orito . It is just one Bunk bed. It has a shower and toilet. It is an official Albergue Municipal. I include 2 photographs. Stayed there on 8th May this...
  3. nalod

    O Camino dos Faros

    My apologises in advance if I am posting in the wrong place or if this has already been covered. I am interested in this route for some time in the future. I would like to do it as a "self hike" without the assistance of any travel agency. The crucial thing for me would be cheap accommodation...
  4. nalod

    Thank you RE: My Photographic Blog.

    Yesterday was a major milestone for me, in that my Photographic Blog just passed the 40,000 visitor mark. I started this blog just a few years ago so that a few close friends could follow my journey. Then I knew nothing about creating a blog. Slowly and sometimes painfully I learned the process...
  5. nalod

    A good use of your Camino Walking Sticks!!

    Recently I walked the Camino Primitivo and for a few days walked with some Lithuanian ladies. Both of them were using walking sticks they had picked up along the way. We were talking about the problems of bringing them back on Aircraft. They were two "Visual Artists" and they had a simple but...
  6. nalod

    The Spirit of the Primitivo in images.

    As often when I finish a new Camino I publish a collection of images portraying that journey. This my new offering of the Primitivo I walked in September of this year (2016). I hope no one minds me posting this here, enjoy and feel free to share the link on any social media that you are part of...
  7. nalod

    A "Brocken Spectere"

    I always confine my photographs to the photographic section, but I hope no one will mind me posting this here. I photographed this image of myself recently on the Camino Primitivo high in the hills of Asturias between Berducedo and Grandas de Salime.It is a "Brocken Specture" or the technical...
  8. nalod

    BlaBlaCars

    I have used the search function on the forum to see if this topic was covered before. It seem to have been included in other topic but not as a Topic on it's own. Forgive me if I am repeating something that has been covered. I will be arriving In Santander on a Sunday in a few weeks (going to...
  9. nalod

    Short youtube video of February Camino on Via de la Plata

    Some of you may be interested in a short (7 minute) video I made of my recent Camino from Seville to Astorga. Here is a link www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFqcquoRK5E It should give a feel, a sense of what it is like in February. Regards Dermot (nalod)
  10. nalod

    Photographic Blog Astorga to Santiago

    Hello all I have walked with my camera from Astorga in early March 2016, after first coming from Seville. This is a direct link to the Frances Photographs http://www.dermotdolan.blogspot.ie/2016/03/camino-frances-astorga-to-santiago-de.html I will also include a few here as a sample enjoy and...
  11. nalod

    Recent Camino Photographs of the VDP

    Hello I have recently walked from Seville and on to Astorga and then to Santiago de Compostela. Thirty seven continuous days of very mixed weather. I started on February 2 2016 and finished on March 9 2016. I carry a full 35 mm camera with me all the time (nikon d8 plus "kit lens) 1.4 kg in a...
  12. nalod

    Recent Camino Photographic Link.

    I have just come home from a long Camino from Seville to Astorga and then on to Santiago de Compostela. I posted Via de la Plata updates as I was walking but did not do anything on the Frances section. Some of you may know that I have photographed many Camino routes over the last five years. I...
  13. nalod

    Live updates February 2016

    On the Camino at moment. Started Seville 2 Feb. Will if I can post basic updates. Seville hostel Banda beside Cathedral 18 e with sheets towel breakfast lively place clean and friendlly no reply from hotel Triana. Guillena private Albergue Liz closed for renovations Municipal Albergue fine good...
  14. nalod

    Photographic Record of Camino de Levante April - May 2015

    Hello at this stage I have walked and photographed about eight Camino routes, I walked this route in the Spring of this year (2015). You can see a revised dedicated section by using this link. http://dermotdolan.blogspot.ie/2015/06/recent-spanish-trip-camino-de-levante.html as always you can...
  15. nalod

    Photographic record Bilbao to Santiago

    I promised a number of people I would let them know when I had some photographs of my recent trip. It will be a few weeks more before my website will be updated. Here is a link to the section of my blog wit Del Norte shots, I have not put captions on them yet. Enjoy (I hope)...
  16. nalod

    Bilbao to Santiago via Primitivo 20th September

    Hello all. I suppose I am really looking for latest news and any special things to do, or special places to stay. I intend to start in Bilbao on 20th Sept. Four years ago I walked from Cahors via the gr65 to St Jean PDP then used the gr10 (non Camino route) to get to Irun and on to Bilbao...
  17. nalod

    San Clemente to Las Pedrones what happened to me?

    Careful leaving San Clemente, Laurie warns of bad marking for some reason that was not our problem. Loads of brilliant arrows. This is what happened to us. I stayed in The Albergue but my walking companion stayed in Milan 1. I meet him there in the moring we saw a yellow arrow near Milan 1 and...
  18. nalod

    The secret of the Cottonwood Forest

    Between Toro and Zamora there seem to be a bit of confusion. The problem seem to appear after the Quarry. I had no problem but was on alert because of problems other people had. I decided to photograph the arrows in sequence for the purpose of informing those yet to do the route and maybe also...
  19. nalod

    The Way the Origin the Exhibition

    I recently returned from Santiago while there the above Exhibition was recommended to me. After many weeks walking mostly alone (on the Levante) Santiago can be a very hectic place. This Exhibition takes place in the very avant garde collection of buildings Cidade da Cultura de Galica. This...
  20. nalod

    True Monty Python type story from the Levante

    May 1 st is a major Holiday in Spain, it was on a Friday this year. I walked from Villa de Don Fadrique to Tembleque, approximately 32 km, it was hot. There was a German couple about ten minutes ahead of me. On arrival in Tembleque we found our intended Hostal fully booked. We tried the local...

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