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    I will walk the Camino with “NO” money

    HI Jim, i have walked the Camino 4 times. and yes, it is about realizing how little you need, and how much sometimes you still can offer to others from the little you have :) so, go on!!! you'll experience Providence!!! and some hard moments, but i find it a good idea!!! that's what a...
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    Ladies Choice: What shoes did you wear & pro's/cons

    i have been 3 times on the camino, 2 times with a MERREL trecking shoe for summer. it has done more then 1000km and it's like a new shoe. i have never had a more comfortable shoe in my life!!!! so , i'm planning my next camino with it :)
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    Highlights/Must sees???

    Rabanal El Acebo O Cebreiro Samos (but i walked just from Astorga, so i cannot say anything about the first half or more...)
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    Water

    the main question: when are you going? because in May my half liter bottle , filled in at fountains found along the camino, was enough. this September however, i had two of them, so 1 liter water made me think of leaving the camino on the first day, because of thirst, (the sun was so...
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    Can I avoid top bunk?

    hi, do not worry. i have walked in May, and not all the time were the albergues full. but when full, i always asked the older people than i (i was 29) if they want to change their assigned bed, if it was a top bunk.... some of them would not :) others did... so do not worry, albergues are...
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    Where is a Precise Route Map?

    http://www.godesalco.com/maps/frances here you can choose the exact part you are interested in.... i'm not sure about downloading, as it uses google maps.
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    Pousada, Casa Rural, or Pensione in Portomarin?

    i stayed in a private albergue Ultreia, for 10 euros. it had a very nice kitchen, terrace, large rooms, a very modern bathroom, and nice owners available ready to help us any time.... http://www.ultreiaportomarin.com/album.htm
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    To camera or not to camera

    As the camino is a very personal way, i wanted to skip my camera(semi-professional one, around 500 gr with batteries), although i like very much to take pictures, and others say they are very nice ones :) when my friends, who are longing for years to make the camino heard that, they said: THE...
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    Has anyone walked The Camino Frances in February?

    hi, i have walked in jan/febr only from Ambasmestas... i had a thick sleeping bag, which in most of the albergues was too much, but in some of them was needed. i met just one albergue, Monasterio of Samos, which was not heated at all. the others were well heated. maybe because this part...
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    After the Camino

    i agree with most of your posts. it's hard to explain what you experience on your camino. for me, now, after returning home from my 3rd one, was even harder to explain why did i go for the 3rd time??? when people asked me this question... i think you don't have to tell anyone your most inner...
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    Why do you stay in albergues??

    hi everyone, why?? i have met one of my closest friends in an albergue!! we still keep in touch, and some weeks ago, on my third camino, i visited her. this relationship, even if we had walked together only 2 days to Santiago, means a lot to me. we keep in touch by emails... but i would not...
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    Trail Mantra

    hi, i have no idea about matras, but i know from experience that reciting the prayer of the heart: "Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of David, have mercy on me, sinner." has a great power. one week on the camino with this prayer changed my life.
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    procession at O Cebreiro on sept 8

    Hi everyone, have you ever participated in the procession of the Virgen on sept the 8th at O Cebreiro?
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    Spanish Language

    do not worry, you will get along without any Spanish knowlegde. that was my case, on my first camino. on the second i knew a few words. but the usual opinion, of spanish people, (i recently talked to someone, who said, when i was complaining that nobody spoke English on my camino...): you are...
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    SAD news .....Two pilgrims die in the CAMINO

    i agree to the former posts, if we are pilgrims in this world, and if the camino helps us to remind us this fact, teh camino is a very strong preparation to be ready for our death. the camino made me think seriously about life, about the most important things in life, which are left behind in...
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    What is the one Albergue that you would say not to miss

    the one at O'Cebreiro , because of the landscape and well-equipped kitchen (i was there this january) and the ones in Triacastela, a few houses near the river :) very very nice, old buildings, near to the river, also hospitalero was very nice this winter :) and of course Samos, but not in...
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    Just finished my first camino

    HI, i am sure you'll find a way to return to the camino. after my first camino, i came back home, and bought an airplane ticket for the next one, half year later :) and nothing prevents me from going again, just my holidays... i do not have enough to go more then once in a year ... but every...
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    monte de Gozo

    last year, i stayed in Seminario Menor, more days.... it was very nice there... on my second camino this february, some of the pilgrims chose MDG. the problem is you cannot stay more then 5-6 hours in Santiago... you need a place to rest.... or a shower... they basically stayed more in MDG...
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    photos from a jan-febr camino frances Ambasmestas - Santiago

    just returned from a surprisingly sunny camino at this part of the year. some pictures show a little little part of our experience https://picasaweb.google.com/monica.son ... noFrances#
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    Camino frances in march - 3 months pregnant - do it? or non?

    hi!!! i do not know what to say about your pregnancy and about your mom doing it... as for the weather: i just came back from my second camino(jan 23-febr 3), and surprisingly it was not that terrible rainy galicia i met one year ago. for 12 days we had sun, around 10 celsius middays, but cold...

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