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I don't know your home country but you can get a credencial before you go. In the UK contact the Confraternity of St James or in the US from American Pilgrims on the Camino. That way you arrive with your credential and can leave as early as you like. Just make sure you get your credential...
I walked the Camino Ingles as my first camino last year and wondered where to get stamps initially. Getting into the habit of asking anywhere you stop helps a lot. Looking back at my credential stamps came from tourist offices, council offices (they usually are easy to find in the centre of...
Walked the Camino Ingles 18 months after a total hip replacement when 61 and went walking in the Dolomites 6 months later. My recovery was really slow but gradually I got hooked on walking and have been ever since! Hoping to walk part of the Norte this year. Found having the camino as a goal...
In 4 lines Joe manages to sum up the complexity of the factors at play in today's Camino. Each one of us has our own desires about what we hope the Camino might be. Perhaps by trying to do the best we can to represent that as we make our way and being kind to those who join us and provide for...
I also took the direct bus from Santiago to Ferrol and it was comfortable and fast. The two stops are very short - just enough time for folks to get off and on. To get an early indication of bus times you can look on the Monbus website for the day of the week you intend travelling on. For...
You have given yourself lots of time to prepare - sounds like a really good start already. I am not a disciplined person and think that many others are similar - very few of us are these disciplined paragons of virtue that we think others are. My best laid plans often go haywire half way...
Great to see how everyone keeps going. Lucky to be able to step outside my door, walk through the village, and be walking up country lanes in a couple of minutes. If I don't feel like going, and the weather is bad, I sometimes just go to see who I might meet up with from the village on the...
Perhaps there are different ways of thinking about the Camino, about when it starts and finishes. For me it began 18 months before with a hip replacement and part of the Camino was the work done to get from crutches to the pilgrimage path. Actually walking the pilgrimage path was about...
One that doesn't seem to have been mentioned so far is the Camino Ingles - you can do the whole Camino from Ferrol to Santiago in 5-6 days. There are some hills but they are gentle ones and not arduous. I used Gronze and John Brierley's guidebook to divide up into stages that fitted me - about...
So often pilgrims are shown tremendous kindness by the local people through whose villages and towns we walk. It may be worth thinking about how we can work in better partnership with them to address some of the issues which inevitably arise, particularly on some of the busier routes.
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