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Dear Nino,
Myself, my husband and two daughters completed the Camino Ingles this summer. My 14 year old sons did not manage to finish. I have posted a summary of our experience elsewhere in this forum. We always knew that we might not all finish so we had arranged to rent an apartment in...
I am sorry to disappoint, but pimientos de Padron only grow in Padron, they do not grow anywhere else in Spain. I think people have tried without success, but maybe you are on to something.
The impact will be huge. They are already preparing for it and several new pilgrim hostels are opening next year; two in the Camino Ingles. This August pilgrim numbers were up by 50%. We arrived on a Sunday and had to queue for 3 hours to get our Compostela. Holy Year is always huge in Spain...
We recently walked to Santiago along the Camino Ingles using John Walker’s (JW) useful guide. It truly was like having somebody showing us the way and the information contained in it made our pilgrimage that much easier.
We set off on Monday 3rd August and we were incredibly lucky with the...
It would certainly be a worthwhile walk, and quite important, as local legend has it that to San Andres de Teixido "vai do morto o que non foi do vivo", which means that you will go after death if you did not go while alive. The area surrounding the "ermita" is very atmospheric, in particular...
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