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    Credit Card Nightmare

    Visas and Mastercards work fine in Spain I think the problem is that they are prepaid Visas. I've heard that they don't work over seas.
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    How to use luggage service if I'm staying at Airbnb?

    I'm a little confused; if you are staying in airbnb's why are you leaving your backpack at hostels? Why not just have them pick up your bag at whatever place you stay? Did you already find air bnb's from Sarria to Santiago?
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    How to use luggage service if I'm staying at Airbnb?

    We never stayed in albergues (stayed in hotels or casa rurales) and needed our bags transported. I contacted the baggage transfer company and prebooked and prearranged with them.
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    Coping with change after Sarria - wisdom needed please

    Can you start off super early or much later so as to avoid most crowds and or groups? We have done the last 100km twice with kids and we always got a late start; 9:15am-9:45am and we hardly saw anyone. Yes we saw a few loud groups playing music or even singing but isn't that better than to have...
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    Camino options for a fit couple with grandkids

    My husband and I were in our mid forties and in what we thought was good shape (I went to zumba three times a week and walked twice a week and my husband did Taekwondo and did triathlons) when we took our two boys on our first camino. We started in Sarria. Our boys were 10 and 13 yrs old. Our...
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    New here

    Lesley the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of American Pilgrims on the Camino hosts events and walks for people interested in walking or who have walked the Camion de Santiago. For those of us who live in Northern Virginia our local chapter is the Mid-Atlantic (there are chapters all over the US)...
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    New here

    Welcome LDennis! If you can walk 10-12 miles without any problem then you are set to go. Don't know where in Norther Virginia you live but if you live anywhere near the Manassas Battlefields those are good practice grounds. That's where I practice (I live in Centreville). The mid Atlantic...
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    Last 100 km least amount of car traffic

    We've also walked from Sarria to Santiago, we did it with the kids when they were 10 and 13 years old. Like the poster above, we felt pretty safe and most of the walking was in country roads with little traffic. Three years later we walked the Sanabres and I felt that it had more walking...
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    Minor Glitch Hopefully - Asking for Prayers

    Sending prayers your way!
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    VdlP via Sanabres or Continue along to the Frances

    I walked the Camino Sanabres and I thought it was very beautiful. After Cea you have two options. We went via the Monasterio de Oseria. On the first day leaving Ourense there is a very steep hill. We saw several group of bike riders. There are not as many people walking the Sanbres.
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    Walking Frances with 10-year old granddaughter

    Is she as excited about walking as you are? My husband and I took our two boys with us in 2015. We walked from Sarria to Santiago they were experiencing a state of digital withdraw-no xbox. They were mad! They hated the camino! After we arrived to our hotel in Santiago my husband and I were...
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    What is the most unusual thing you have seen on any Camino?

    OK I don't have any pictures of what I saw and I was always wanted to ask the forum members but I didn't know how to ask (because of the nature of the question) , but since this question is being asked about unusual things seen, made me think about it so here it is: In 2017 we walked the Camino...
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    An unusual medical ailment

    For treatment of bot fly they suggest putting petroleum jelly over location.
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    An unusual medical ailment

    Look up bot fly. It sounds like that is what you have.
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    Utility sinks ....???

    Wash Boards they sell them on amazon like SYates said above.
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    In and out of Ourense

    Laurie we did the Sanabres and to take the right route this is the information I followed.: After crossing the bridge, take your second right onto Ave. Santiago. Follow that and continue following the yellow arrows and markers.
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    Ugh...decisions

    In my very humble opinion I would go for the three weeks. It sounds like you really want to go and I think that the trip will help you clear your mind and stress about losing the job. A few years back my husband suddenly lost his job, and we had a vacation planned. We didn't really have any...
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    Advice for giving my dad at 70 and sister sample of Camino

    We have have walked from Sarria to Santiago in 2015. We were 45 yrs and 47 yrs and the kids were 10yrs and 13yrs. We are in pretty good shape and we practiced and it was not easy! It took us 6 days. We would start walking at about 9:30am and end around 4:00pm. The last day we arrived...
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    American family coming in July 2019 (trying to balance walking and family)

    You don't need to go to confession to get a compostela but your son must walk all of the last 100km into Santiago and have 2 stamps per day to show that he walked.
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    American family coming in July 2019 (trying to balance walking and family)

    Yes, it's possible. We walked with two kids ages 10 and 13 and we walked again when they were 12 and 15yrs old. The first time we walked from Sarria to Santiago (it took 6 days) two years later we walked from Ourense to Santiago (also took 6 days). Both times we slept in and didn't begin...

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