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On a slightly different tack but still on admin matters, and not important, but I am wondering why I’m still called a new member, having signed up in 2016…?
I'll be walking the first part of the Camino del Norte in September, Irún to Bilbao, My traveling companion may not maage to walk the full distance each day. Does anyone know how easy it is to call for or pickup a taxi en route? On the CF I saw regular taxi ads, stuck on trees etc. Or is...
Eating on your own in the evening! If you’re only staying in albergues this doesn’t really apply but, especially in the bigger cities where you can’t necessarily recognise fellow pilgrims, eating on your own in a restaurant can feel a little intimidating. However, almost always you start talking...
Shortly before my last camino, appropriately the Camino Inglés, I came across the familiar signs of a shell and a yellow arrow during a visit to Tremenheere Gardens near Penzance. St Michael's Way is the only part of the Camino de Santiago that is in England and is thought to have been used by...
Definitely the Hotel Real Colegiata San Isidoro! Plaza Santo Martino 5 it’s lovely, interesting and atmospheric; also convenient for seeing Leon, is next to the basilica and right on the Camino, perfect for an early start the next morning. Buen Camino!
In Sarria when I got my sello at the old church they gave out a list of masses in the churches through to SdC. Before that, lots of evening pilgrim mass opportunities, most memorably: Roncesvalles, Los Arcos (stunning when they light up the altar for mass), Carrion de Los Condes, Triacastela...
I’m walking the Camino Inglés this September, Ferrol to SdC, but is it right that you can now get a Compostela after starting from A Coruña, as I’ve just read on gronze.com? Or do you need to have walked 25 km in from your home to start with? Second question: does anyone use the Ferrol bridge...
Hola Irenie, I’m actually doing exactly that, a Spanish immersion and walking week in the Pyrenees next month. It’s a small set up called Pyrenean Experience and sounds delightful, if a little challenging... They are in the Baztan valley near the route of the Camino Baztanés. See their website...
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