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I agree with those who remarked about how common courtesy is no longer considered common but angelic or heroic. I am amazed when I see a video on FB or YouTube heralding a modern-day hero only to see that it's just someone doing the right thing. It's usually a small act of common courteous like...
Hola Pano,
Gracias por su consejo. I intend to spend a few days in Pamplona before I start the walking part of my camino. Thanks to your message I will outfit myself after my arrival. I like to travel as lightly as possible, with carry-on bags only for flights, if possible. I will bring my...
---I'm in complete agreement. If I had to plan this trip, or know where I was going to sleep and when, then I would not want to go. Magpie, late Sept-Oct. 2013
Hello Ginger,
I'm looking into a similar trip - fly out of O'Hare in late Sept, arrive somewhere in Spain - either Bilboa or Madrid, travel to SJPP or further north, and then start the Camino Frances. I'd like to walk to Santiago, then Muxia, and then head south to Porto.
I haven't made any...
Hello ladies,
I, too, am "thinking" of walking the Camino, and starting at the end of Sept.
And, like many, I'm not sure why I need to walk or want to walk, but feeling compelled to do it - and know that I would (more than) enjoy it. I'm 45.
I would leave from Chicago, fly into Spain -...
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