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I would definitely verify. Free is too good to be true unless it is included in your air fare, or it is sponsored by a hotel you are booking into. Buen Camino!
I am thinking of walking Camino del Norte to Oviedo; Camino San Salvador from Oviedo to Leon where I will meet friends and continue on the Camino Frances to the sea. Has anyone done the Camino San Salvador from Oviedo to Leon? What do I need to keep in mind? It looks like substantial...
Buen Camino:
I depart on October 01!! My first time. I am so excited. I have not read extensively, but i am going with what I believe are adequate preparations: an open mind and heart, road gear, and joy, hope, and curiosity.
all I have read leads me to think this is a good time to be going. Oct-Nov. Hope this is so, but I am going no matter what. Time waits for no one. That train is Camino bound!
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Rochelle
Hi Everyone:
I too am new to the Camino. I was thinking of doing it some time back, shelved the idea, then it reasserted itself when I watched the movie. I knew it, the moment I saw it, this was the time and this was the place. I am practicing with my backpack and walking on average 23 miles...
Good Luck Shanetta! I will be arriving in Madrid on October 2, and will be starting at SJPP or Roncevalles as I wish to go to Finisterre! It is the romantic in me. I have given myself 34 days.
I answered before that, yes, it did cement my decision to go. I have a question and wonder if anyone can answer it. Did Tcheky Karyo the actor who plays the police chief in St. Jean ever travel the Camino? He has such emotional intensity around his role. Just wondered.
This forum is invaluable to someone like myself who is traveling the Camino alone and for the first time. It encourages me and helps me prepare with confidence. I feel I can trust the advice of many pilgrims and look forward to taking my first steps onto the road in St. Jean!! :D
Before leaving I am reading Seek God Everywhere-by Anthony De Mello; The Life of St. Theresa of Avila by Herself, Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.....and time permitting will read Don Quixote (in Spanish), as well as St. Theresa's The...
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