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We've just finished Stage 1 of the Camino del Norte (CDN), walking from San Sebastian - Gijon during May/June 2017.
Sorry, but it's taken me a while to put together the list of where we ate, drank, and slept as I've rummaging through numerous crumpled receipts and trying to piece these...
Absolutely Malcolm....couldn't agree more!
I'm sure we could go on about many more reasons why this is, in many ways, a more authentic pilgrimage experience, given the opportunities for reflection, solitude, and the occasional dose of hardship, but fortified by nature at its very finest...
There was a very thought-provoking post a while back about 'Why you should not walk the Camino del Norte (or at least not until you have read this post'.
To be fair, we were already committed to walking CDN by this point, and the post did make a number of valid points, namely:
* Hills - yup...
We just finished walking the Camino Portugues from Lisbon through to Santiago Mar/Apr 2016....and I've just finished uploading most of the places we ate, drank, and slept on our blog.
http://www.jackiemattadventures.com/summary-accommodation-eating/
The route we took was a bit of a mix &...
We kept a detailed blog www.jackiemattadventures.com so feel free to check it out for pictures and information about the Spiritual and Coastal route parts of the Camino Portuguese, which we walked in Mar/Apr 2016.
Armenteira - albergue is about 0.7km out of the main town / cosy, with 2 dorms @...
We walked the Variante Espiritual earlier this month - the first 2 days were spectacular (to Armentaria and to Villanova....well the Ruta del Pedra y Agua at least), but the last day's walking to Catoira was rubbish to say the least.
Granted it was pouring with rain, but it's nearly all road...
We've just finished walking the Camino Portuguese (from Lisbon, Mar/Apr-16), so at least this is fairly fresh in the memory.
A couple of suggestions:
i) Walk from Porto in 9 days
* Per the Brierley Guide, the average over 10 days in just over 24km, so you could quite easily combine a couple...
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