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    British Pilgrimage Trust looking for "test walkers"

    Just spotted this: the BPT is looking for pilgrims to test walk their cathedral day pilgrimage routes! Here's a list of the walks in question. After you've finished, they'd like you to send an email with information about: Transport; Route Quality; Path Condition/Functionality; Opening Times...
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    For winter pilgrims: opening dates of municipal albergues on the Norte

    Hi folks, After responding to a couple of recent threads regarding walking the Norte in winter, I thought it might be helpful compile a list showing the seasonal availability of the municipal albergues. I have also included parochial/religious albergues and donativos. For brevity's sake, I have...
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    Walking through the Haut-Languedoc nature reserve - Some Practical Info

    So… I’ve just walked to Castres on the Chemin d’Arles. I had planned to go further, but temperatures were reaching over 40 degrees Celsius, and I was experiencing symptoms of heat exhaustion, so it would have been pretty stupid to continue. I didn’t do too much advanced planning, in fact I...
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    Lunas to St-Gervais-sur-Mare - Take care with GR markings!

    Hi all, just back from a couple of weeks on the Chemin d'Arles. I went armed with nothing but Gronze and Google maps, and for the most part I didn't need anything more. Overall, the GR635 marking were really great - frequent, intuitively placed, and freshly painted. Which is why the two...
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    LIVE from the Camino Flooding on way to Villaviciosa 25 March

    Hola peregrinos! Walked (most of the way) from La Isla to Villaviciosa today but some parts were impassable due to the very heavy rains. Got a lift for a stretch as locals said the path was completely flooded. In the pics you'll see what I had to navigate. Was feeling a little traumatised, ha...
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    Santander rest day idea - if you like cave art!

    A few days ago I had the privilege of visiting a cave just outside Santander, containing the oldest cave paintings in Europe: La Cueva de El Castillo. It's located a short walk from the village of Puente Viesgo, served by frequent Alsa buses from Santander city centre. The tour guides are...
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    La Isla albergue closed for "obras"

    Hi everyone, on the Norte at the moment and 2 days in it's already stretching my budget a wee bit. I started from Llanes only to find the albergue in Cuerres closed for 2018. There's no pilgrim albergue in Ribadesella. And just been informed that the albergue in La Isla is closed for renovation...
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    Great free EU-Portuguese learning resource

    For those who are interested in learning a bit of European Portuguese, I've recently come across this wonderful series of podcasts. Very useful as it seems most free language stuff online is of the Brazilian variety. Carla and Marlon are a young married couple, originally from Alentejo, now...
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    When did you first become 'camino conscious'?

    This is following a post yesterday, where someone was trying to track the name of the film that marked his initiation into 'camino consciousness'. Thought it would be a fun thread on its own! So, when did you first become conscious of the Camino? When was that lovely little seed first planted?

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