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Due to an injured knee, I'm thinking of cycling from Porto to Santiago this coming June, what is the qualifying distance to get a Compostela?
Thanks in advance!
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Plans have changed from a May Camino to a late August Camino with a long-time friend and business partner who has never done a Camino. We plan on leaving on August 30 and being gone for about four weeks starting at or near Burgos.
I had planned on a six week camino from where I had left off in 2016 at Estella including Muxia but due to an illness a couple of days before leaving this past April I had to cancel. Now I leave in less than two weeks for a much shorter camino (12 walking days) from Astorga to Santiago. I've...
Apparently we will be without the Pilgrim's mass and the Botafumeiro for much of 2018 because of the ongoing restoration work. More info here: http://www.radiocaminodesantiago.com/en-el-2018-la-misa-del-peregrino-sin-botafumeiro-y-en-la-iglesia-de-san-francisco-no-en-la-catedral/
If anyone else...
My wife thinks I should be (committed, as in put away safely for my own well-being). Not really! She understands and supports that I have to go and so I have bought tickets to Dublin leaving on April 17th (66th birthday) and onwards from there to Estella to finish my 2016 camino.
Any...
Whether to begin the last week of May or the last week of August for the continuation of my 2016 camino from Estella. Thoughts? My main consideration is the weather, then number of pilgrims on the camino.
I plan on resuming my 2016 camino where I left off in Estella around August 21, 2018. My plan is to go straight through to Muxia and the 'ends of the earth'. I have invited my brother and he would like to come with me so there is a possibility we'll start in St Jean or maybe Pamplona. I look...
Norwegian cartoonist Jason is releasing a new book based on his camino experience using his characters as the story guide. You can read more about it here - http://www.avclub.com/article/cartoonist-begins-introspective-journey-camino-exc-255491
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