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I don’t see how a brief a train ride across a river differs meaningfully from a brief ferry ride across a river— which, as we know, is an accepted part of several caminos, including the Norte. The objective is not to skip the walk through a location but just to skip the swim to the other bank...
Thanks Rick! Good to know. I’ll make sure the labels are attached extremely securely, haha.
Did the Irun office seem to be familiar with Paq Peregrino? I’m conflicted about whether to send it from there or San Sebastián (spending first two nights there, taking train to Irun and walking back to...
Doing the Norte with my partner in a few weeks. It’s the beginning of our honeymoon and we’ve got 6 weeks of post-Camino onward travel, including our friends’ wedding, so we plan to ship ahead our one bag of other clothing from San Sebastián to SdC.
I’ve read conflicting information about how...
FYI, Booking Dot Com will show places as being “full” when the hotels have merely stopped accepting reservations (or haven’t begun accepting reservations!) for that date from Booking. Large hotels especially do not offer their entire inventory on third party platforms like Booking. They almost...
Cindy,
As far as where you should fly out of the US, the NYC airports (either JFK or Newark/EWR) are generally the cheapest for flights to Europe. Conveniently, transatlantic flights almost exclusively leave after 9pm, so you can book a cheap morning flight into NYC from your home city and have...
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