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  1. JaneI

    Advice needed for first-time camino

    The only thing I'd worry about would be breaking in your boots/shoes - could you get them now & walk to work (or even wear them at work!) maybe? Or wear them to walk to the shops, half an hour round the block every night - you don't have to be doing major hikes to start to loosen them up. My...
  2. JaneI

    Buff brand vs knock off?

    ... or for use as an emergency bandage - saved me a lot of pain on day 2 of my walk
  3. JaneI

    What to wear in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

    Can I give a slightly different view? When we arrived at the Cathedral last week for our first ever pilgrim mass I loved the fact that so many people there had clearly, as we had, walked straight into the city from their camino and hardly stopped to dust the sand from their feet, so to speak...
  4. JaneI

    Top tips ... The things you found out for yourself

    I'm guessing that every peregrino finds out at least one thing along the way that they found really useful but no-one had told them before - and maybe would like to share them here. I'm talking about the odd bits of info/best kept secrets/things that never make the guide books but made a big...
  5. JaneI

    LIVE from the Camino Last minute jitters

    Couldn't agree more, @KinkyOne - I didn't mean to imply any rudeness, just to reassure that a lack of common language is no barrier on the camino. By the end of day one I had your seven words plus auga (water), helado (ice cream) and of course por favor (please) off to a tee. By the end of day 2...
  6. JaneI

    Group of 12 - May 2015

    Scotland? In May?? We'll need an extra jumper for that one!
  7. JaneI

    Shipping bags ahead? Safety and consistency?

    Jacotrans were excellent for us, we paid in advance for the whole itinerary so it was out of the way, they were great at communicating with us (and in English!) and we had absolutely no complaint whatsoever. And of course knowing that you have to reach your destination to have a clean pair of...
  8. JaneI

    LIVE from the Camino Last minute jitters

    We walked the Camino Ingles last week with not a word of Spanish/Portuguese/Galician between us. We found that all along the camino people understood why we were there, where we were going, and what we might need, and went out of their way to help us. You can get a long way with smiles, gestures...
  9. JaneI

    Group of 12 - May 2015

    Buen camino, @rlr9200 ! Top tip: get the map of Ferrol from the tourist office by the start point, and get them to mark the route out of town on it for you. The current roadworks make it easy to get lost, and we didn't see many waymarks as we went through the more industrial parts - they may...
  10. JaneI

    Group of 12 - May 2015

    Yep, that was us! We did indeed make it - though after we left you at Bar Julia the going got HARD - the combination of doing the full stretch from Betanzos to Bruma in one hit (and thus getting the toughest bit of the whole camino in the afternoon and in full heat) plus then having to do...
  11. JaneI

    Group of 12 - May 2015

    So @Whereswillie, how did you get on? You were walking the same week we were and I'm dying to know if yours was the group we crossed paths with at Pontedeume & Betanzos and lastly at Bar Julia - just before we headed off to tackle the mother of 'oh bugger' hills!
  12. JaneI

    Good Things That Happen On the Camino

    Did our first camino (Ingles) last week, and so many kindnesses along the way ... - the manager of our hotel at Pontedeume who didn't speak a word of English but rang the one member of her staff who did when we arrived exhausted at the end of day one so that she could offer us hot food and...
  13. JaneI

    Getting to Ferrol Sat night/Sunday morning

    Hi @mishlove, the whole thing worked perfectly! We booked the baggage carriers and arranged for them to pick us up in A Coruna at 8.30am on the Sunday morning, we were in Ferrol at the precise start of the camino for 9.45am, plenty of time to have coffee at the cafe right by the waypoint (and...
  14. JaneI

    Independent (first time) peregrinos - baggage transfers?

    Just to tie this thread up, Jacotrans provided excellent service - on the first morning they turned up on the dot to transport us to Ferrol (from A Coruna) and our bags to Pontedeume, and from there on our bags were delivered unfailingly efficiently to our onward destination. It meant we had our...
  15. JaneI

    Last minute questions from a first timer...

    As @mig says, it's a pretty straightforward section. The part that goes through the woodland is truly to be treasured - you suddenly realise that this is the last countryside you'll walk through on your camino, and there's a spot when all you can hear is birdsong and the rush of the river (when...
  16. JaneI

    Botafumerio to swing every Friday during the 7:30 pm (1930 hrs) mass

    Yes, it comes right at the end of mass, and you'll have plenty of warning as you'll see the men in their robes start to gather (and the security people moving people back a bit from where they are in the way. For what it's worth, though, I'm pretty sensitive to heavy scents - and I was hardly...
  17. JaneI

    Botafumerio to swing every Friday during the 7:30 pm (1930 hrs) mass

    We didn't know about the Friday evening pilgrims' mass until we got to SdeC yesterday - we thought that as yesterday was Ascension Day we'd see the botafumeiro swing at the lunchtime pilgrims' mass - we didn't (but we were so glad to be there it didn't matter!) - were lucky enough to be staying...
  18. JaneI

    Services in English in the Cathedral of Santiago 2015 - please share with others

    We went to the pilgrim mass yesterday when we arrived, and it was a fantastic and moving experience but without Spanish I could only participate in my head. So to be able to go to the English mass this morning was absolutely lovely. The priest asked us all to introduce ourselves by name, where...
  19. JaneI

    Sellos tomorrow morning between Marantes & SdeC?

    Having a wonderful time thank you - the perfect end to our journey!
  20. JaneI

    Sellos tomorrow morning between Marantes & SdeC?

    Left Marantes at 7.15am, just stopped at the perfectly placed cafe bar Poligono (literally just as you come from the woodland walk into the industrial estate) - bustling (full of policemen getting their breakfasts), got our sellos and a delicious croissant & orange juice Happy bunnies :) Now -...

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