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Bringing ANY plant material or its by-products (fruit, seeds, etc) into New Zealand or Australia will result in a hefty fine. Our cousin recently received a NZ$400 fine for forgetting she had an apple in her carry-on bag when going through Customs at Auckland airport.
My wife and I stayed at Albergue Leo in 2016 in Villafranco del Bierzo and took the alternate ridge walk (Ruta Pradela) from there to Trabadelo. It was initially quite a steep climb but the view from the ridge line looking down into the valley and looking back at Villafranco del Bierzo was...
We travelled from Paris to Bayonne by high speed TPG train in late March 2016 having booked tickets (fast TPG Paris to Bayonne and then a connecting regular train Bayonne to SJPDP) prior to leaving Australia a couple of months earlier. Unfortunately when we got off the TPG in Bayonne we were...
Hello Mack. We flew Emirates to Paris in March last year via Singapore and Dubai prior to commencing our Camino in StJPdP. We stayed four days in Paris as we'd never been to Paris previously. We then took the TGV fast train to Bayonne but unfortunately our connecting train from Bayonne to StJPdP...
During the 43 days walking from St Jean PdP to Santiago last year I only slept in a top bunk once....my choice. It was no problem at all as it was solid and as comfortable as any bottom bunk. My wife slept on the bottom bunk that time and although being a light sleeper, she wasn't disturbed (or...
I have a great recipe for laminations. Although I prefer to eat lamingtons which are an Australian invention. Some New Zealanders don't acknowledge that notion believing they invented the lamington....wrong!!
Beautiful memories you've shared. Friends of ours are currently walking the Portuguese Camino having started in Lisbon and currently only 100km from Santiago. My wife and I were thinking to undertake that walk next year, however, your video has rekindled those wonderful memories of "our" Camino...
We took the early morning TGV from Gare Montparnasse to Bayonne but found on arrival at Bayonne that there was a train strike and no trains running from Bayonne to St Jean PdP. The TGV was very comfortable. In Bayonne we had to find a bus that would take us on to St Jean PdP. Not hard to find...
I hope the advice you've received hasn't confused you. Reading the varying opinions on what to wear really is a personal matter.
My wife and I walked from StJPdP to SDC starting 23 March 2016 (when the Napoleon Way was still closed due to deemed treacherous icy conditions). The temperature on...
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