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My wife and I walked from St Jean to Pamplona, then from Astorga to Santiago in 2018. Full story and pics here (and no ads): www.paulkilfoil.co.za/2018.aspx
Albergue San Nicholas in Larrasoaña (between Zubiri and Pamplona) was truly exceptional - best shower I've had in a long time and their pilgrim dinner was superb.
My wife and I are in our mid-50's and aimed for between 15-20 km per day on our CF this year. We did a few "longer" days (longest was 24.1 km). We carried all our own gear. Enjoyed every day, no injuries, no blisters, no problems. Never left at the crack of dawn, never walked late, stopped often...
My blog is at www.paulkilfoil.co.za/2018.aspx ... we finished our Camino on 20 June 2018 but are still in Spain, exploring Barcelona at the moment (so the blog will still be updated further in the coming few days).
I need to get from Barcelona airport to Sants train station. It's confusing - seems like you can go by bus, train or metro but it appears that you cannot use a ticket from a book of 10 metro tickets (T10) for the METRO - you have to buy a special "airport ticket" for the metro. But I read...
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