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    Kumano Kodo Logistics / How to guide

    andycohn submitted a new resource: Kumano Kodo Logistics / How to guide - This is meant as a getting started/ logistics /resources guide to the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail i Read more about this resource...
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    Resources / Logistics Guide to Kumano Kodo

    My wife and I recently walked the Nakahechi trail of the Kumano Kodo. When we returned, I put together a Getting Started / How to / Logistics guide. My intent was not to describe the Kumano Kodo in any detail, but to answer the questions most people (i.e. me) would have in advance, and to...
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    New edition of guidebook to Via Francigena

    The Italian publisher, Terre di Mezzo, has just come out with a new, 3rd edition of its excellent guidebook in English on the Via Francigena, covering the section from the Swiss border to Rome. When we walked this two years ago I found the Terre di Mezzo guide to be the most useful --...
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    Alert: Route blocked between Borce and Urdos

    My wife and I are on the Arles route now. Between Borce and Urdos (one stage before the Col de Somport) the route is blocked to walkers because of road construction, and you need to take a bus from Etsaut, which is right before Borce and on the other side of the river, to Urdos, a distance of...
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    Report on the new Lucca - Altopascio alternative

    Like many others, I skipped the ugly and urban Lucca - Altopascio stage when I walked the Via Francigena last fall from Aosta. This spring, however, Sandy Brown, author of one of the leading guidebooks to the route, posted about a new alternative route on the VF Facebook page. Intrigued, I...
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    Towards a theory of difficulty

    I'm always amused by all the posts that ask how difficult a particular route is. And having just come back from the Le Puy route, I'm asked the same question by fellow Camino addicts in the SF Bay Area: How hard was it? Of course there's no answer. My hard is your easy, and vice versa...
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    The Way of Le Puy: All the Stuff You Wanna Know or Oughta Wanna Know Before Starting Out

    andycohn submitted a new resource: The Way of Le Puy: All the Stuff You Wanna Know or Oughta Wanna Know Before Starting Out - How to navigate the Le Puy route, a practical guide to information and resources Read more about this resource...
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    How-to guide to the Le Puy route

    My wife and I just returned from doing the Le Puy route in France. We loved it, but it was much different from the Spanish caminos. Before we went, I couldn't find any one source that described the route in general, accommodations, food, internal transportation, making reservations, etc. -- all...
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    Your GPS Is Wrong and the Guidebook is Right

    At least 2 - 3 times a week, I read a post where someone complains that the guidebook s/he’s using (Brierley is most often singled out for the blame) understates the distance actually walked, as measured by the poster’s supposedly reliable gps. And in fact, since my wife started carrying a gps...
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    Buses along Camino Ingles

    My wife and I are finishing up the Camino del Norte later this week, and with a few days left over, we're thinking of exploring the Ingles for part of its length. Does anyone know a bus line that runs from Betanzos or Hospital de Brumas, or points in- between, to Santiago? I've tried the usual...
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    All hotels in Pola de Siero seem closed

    If you're coming down from the Norte to the Primitivo, and you're looking for a private room in Pola de Siero, the stage right before Oviedo, you may be out of luck. Neither of the two options listed in Gronze and Wise Pilgrim, Siero Hostel and Hotel Loriga, answered repeated phone calls...
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    Coastal route or central route

    My wife and I are planning to walk the Camino Portugues, starting in Porto, in May, and we're trying to decide between the coastal route from Porto to Redondela (not along the senda, but the route slightly inland) and the central route. I can't really find any good comparisons between the two...

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