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    Camino Portuguese Review

    Thanks for your excellent review. I leave from Lisbon in a few weeks. I have mixed feelings. I walked the Frances in 2013 and met my Camino family as well as many wonderful pilgrims from SJPP until Santiago. I am apprehensive about walking alone from Lisbon now that I know so few pilgrims...
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    Camino Portugal - is it becoming more popular?

    I would like to see your blog. I leave Sept. 1 from Lisbon.
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    Lisbon to Porto (some very personal observations)

    Thanks so much for the info. I leave Lisbon on Sept. 1st and have been very nervous about the Lisbon to Porto stages, particularly as a woman alone. I was even considering scrapping my plans and walking the Frances route again when I read that there weren't many pilgrims walking from Lisbon...
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    Starting Portuguese in Lisbon Sept. 1, 2015

    Hi, I was wondering if anyone will be starting the Portuguese route on Sept. 1, 2015, from Lisbon? I have read a few blogs and am a little concerned that I may not see very many pilgrims from Lisbon to Porto. I realize it won't be as busy as the Frances route but would feel safer knowing there...
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    table etiquette

    Thanks for the reminder. Also, if you see someone looking for a place to sit who has purchased something to eat/drink at the same establishment welcome them to your table if you have an empty chair. Never put your pack in the chairs.
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    Explaining the camino

    I met an American couple in June 2008 on a "walking tour of Provence." They said they were doing the Camino de Santiago the next summer. They explained what it was and I thought to myself, "what idiot would spend their vacation walking across a country?" In early 2013 my plans for an India...
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    Class of 2015

    I will be starting my second Camino September 3rd or 4th. I walked from SJPDP to Santiago in 2013. This time I am going to walk the Portuguese route from Lisbon, hopefully with a friend from NZ who became part of my Camino family during my first pilgrimage.
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    Does this make sense for a slow start to avoid burn-out?

    I walked in Sept. 2013. I took the SJPdP to Valcarlos and then on to Roncevalles the next day. I wish I had done your proposed route for the next few days. I agree with another person on this forum about Pamplona to Puente la Reina. It took me 5 hours to get to the top of Alto de Perdon. It...
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    medical insurance

    I went with a new Camino friend to a hospital in Leon in September 2013. She is a nurse practitioner and spoke Spanish. She was seen by a nurse for check-in, an ER doctor and then a pulmonary specialist. They drew blood and did an x-ray of her chest. She was diagnosed with bronchitis. Both...
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    LIVE from the Camino Crisis...

    On my first Camino in September 2013 I quit 22 times the FIRST day. The second day I only quit 14 times. I quit numerous but fewer times for the first 7 days. I would tell myself that when I arrived at my hotel that afternoon (for medical reasons I did not stay in the albergues) I would go...
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    Anyone else walked without staying in Albergues?

    I came alone to walk the Camino Frances with no intention of staying in albergues. I can hardly tolerate my better half snoring in my ear much less strangers. It was a wise decision for me. My only complaint was that having reservations each night while comforting knowing I had a bed, meant...
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    What causes people to stop their caminos?

    My first Camino started from SJPP in Sept. 2013. I had heard about it in 2008 from a couple on a "Walking Provence" tour. At the time I thought they were crazy to spend vacation time walking across Spain. I am a 54-year old obese woman who happens to be able to walk 8 miles/day at 4mph on a...
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    Staying Connected or Not?

    I brought my IPhone with an Orange SIM card and had a set time for my husband or my elderly parents to call me each night to reassure parties on each end of that phone that everything was fine. We limited the daily call to five minutes. I can't imagine going off the grid for the 35 days I took...
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    All the pilgrims numbers from Santiago January - May 2014

    Don't worry about us Texans taking offense. We know that you Coloradans secretly wish you all were from Texas!
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    Weather Difference French vs. del Norte Ways

    I walked the Camino from SJPP to Santiago this past Sept. 2013. I am considering the Camino del Norte route from Irun to Santiago for September 2014. For those who have walked both, is it hotter or cooler on the coast or more/less rainy as compared to the SJPP to Santiago route at this time of...
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    The electric coil changed my life on the Camino!

    I did Camino Frances with the coil and an enamel camping cup purchased at WalMart this past September. I also brought instant coffee and powdered International vanilla sugar-free creamer since I am not normally an instant coffee fan. This worked well for me and I still stopped for a delicious...

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