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    LIVE from the Camino In Monesterio on the Vdlp

    Hi Laurie, I am sorry to hear about your walking partner having to return home and also wish for her situation to be ok. I know what you felt, I had the same experience when my husband had to return to Johannesburg when we reached Merida. The first few days I really felt alone but then one is...
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    LIVE from the Camino In Monesterio on the Vdlp

    Hi Laurie, thanks for all this useful information! Your accounts of the towns and the people are inspiring and I am so glad that your camino is turning out to be such a great experience. I am in Salamanca and will start the walk to Zamora tomorrow. I will be taking it slow since I have enough...
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    LIVE from the Camino Starting in Seville

    Hi to Laurie, Cathy and interested others, I am now in Banos de Montemayor, quite a lively town and some more tourist type shops, I suppose largely due to the Thermal Baths. I am allowing myself the luxury to stay in the Hotel Balneario and enjoy having this internet nook all to myself. I don´t...
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    Aarn Backpacks

    Reading Falcon´s mail I am now wondering if I also have such a faulty liner? Don´t know, did not have to put this to the test on my camino and by choice quite cut off from my normal emails but will check it out when back in SA. Just for further information to people interested in the Aarn...
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    LIVE from the Camino Starting in Seville

    Hi to fellow pelgrims, Some updated information, however not so complete and interesting than Laurie´s! but at least I hope helpful even if only to re-confirm. Villafranca de los Barros - stayed in Casa Perin. Very homely, met some nice pelgrims there and had an absolute wonderful lunch at...
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    LIVE from the Camino Setting off from Seville today

    Hi Marianne, I wish you a good camino! About 10 days ahead of you. Anita
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    LIVE from the Camino Starting in Seville

    Hi Cathy, Chris, Laurie and other forum members, Cathy/Chris your blog looks great and I really appreciate you posting info re places, experiences like Laurie - this kind of information is invaluable to people like me who will be walking alone soon and a totally inexperienced hiker. I really...
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    LIVE from the Camino Starting in Seville

    Hi fellow peregrinos on the Via, I just lost a very long message of our progress for the 3rd time due to internet connection failure here in the library of Monesterio. Too late to start again. Just letting you know all is well and will communicate as soon as possible. Buen Camino, Anita
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    LIVE from the Camino Starting in Seville

    Dear all to whom I am so indebted for all the advice on the forum and through PMs. Starting out from Seville tomorrow morning. I will try to keep you updated about progress and other contributions. Thanks to Laurie and the others ahead of me for the steady flow of posts - helps a lot. Buen...
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    Torremegia accommodations --new phone number Hotel Milenium

    Thanks Laurie - info much appreciated!
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    Lodging in Castilblanco de los Arroyos

    Thanks Laurie - noted. I was hoping to get such advice from you! Buen Camino!
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    advice on trekking poles please

    Another vote for the Pacer poles. I ordered them directly through the website paying via PayPal and it arrived in good time. Anita
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    Aarn Backpacks

    I can echo what Falcon says. I bought an Aarn Peak Aspiration with the Sports Balancing Pockets for what will be my first Camino and it is very balanced, carries like a 'heavy vest' and is really waterproof. The balancing pockets make for my camera, dictaphone, cell phone, water bottles, etc. to...
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    Advice on packing, i.e. medicine/1st aid, etc

    In a week's time I will fly to Spain to walk the VdlP, starting 16 May. I need advice with regards to packing. I gathered somewhere on the forum that I will have to pack my walking poles in a box/tube since I will not be able to take it on-board in the backpack. I believe my Swiss army knife...
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    May 2010 - will the Holy Year affect via de la Plata??

    Hi JamesII, also heading for the VdlP in four weeks' time and fully agree with Laurie. I scanned through a number of guidebooks including Raju's (including updates on website) Cole&Davies, etc. and eventually decided to use the Eroski guide augmented with my own notes, as Laurie indicated she is...
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    Guide to the Via de la Plata

    I found very valuable information on the site below - some of which I did not find on any of the other sites. E.g. reviews of places and info re shelters in places, e.g. F de Tabara where I thought none existed. http://caminodesantiago.consumer.es
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    Crime on VdlP

    Thanks for the advice Lynne. A bit sidelined from the Camino but perhaps to pilgrims also going to visit some other cities. On the Rambles in Barcelona near the Playa de Catalunya two women approached us - the one gave me and my daughter roses, very friendly, and the other approached my husband...
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    Crime on VdlP

    Annie, I saw your warning re Bar Macias and have already marked that as a no-go. I will be on the look out in Castilblanco thanks Laurie.
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    Crime on VdlP

    I will be walking the VdlP from mid May. Living in Johannesburg a bit of paranoia re safety is part of daily life. I am thus not put off by the references to crime on the forum - actually very low % - but can people that have walked de VdlP in 2010/2009 perhaps give some feedback if any such...
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    walking via de la plata in may - july

    Hi Caminando, thanks for the advice - i am worried about the heat but will have to endure it since i have to plan my camino sabbatical to coincide with the world cup in SA, when i assume (hope i am right!) my work will slow down a bit. Any other advice re type of backpack, etc. will be so welcome!

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