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    Help! Where to buy a new hat on Camino Ingles?

    So, I managed to lose my lovely Tilley hat. Left behind I think, in a shop in Cambre. Going back for it not an option as the place is closed today, Sunday. Am I destined to arrive in Santiago wearing my towel on my head? Believe me, it's a better option than using my spare shirt or trousers. Is...
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    Managing hip pain on Camino

    When I started to get hip pain after walking a couple of years ago, after x rays, my doctor concluded "wear and tear commensurate with age - carry on walking". My hips grumbled a bit on Camino last year, nothing overnight rest didn't put right, and do sometimes on regular walks at home. I'm...
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    Compostela requirements, pre Camino Ingles in UK

    I am planning to walk part of the Augustine Camino between Canterbury and Ramsgate prior to walking the Camino Ingles from A Coruña. I know that this route is recognised by the Pilgrim Office. What I can't find the answer to anywhere obvious (CSJ, BPT and Pilgrim Office websites) is: whether...
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    Rochester to Canterbury - Augustine Camino or Pilgrims Way?

    I am hoping to walk from Rochester to Canterbury this autumn with my 10 year old grand-daughter and her mother. We are all interested in history and like walking. My grand-daughter has followed my caminos to Santiago with great interest. I hope it will be the first part of a Camino Ingles for...
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    Uses for a disposable pillowcase

    Somewhere in the depths of this forum there’s a reference to keeping the disposable pillowcases (provided in some albergues) to use as a mat in showers. In Ponte de Lima albergue, where no bed covers are provided, a very experienced French pilgrim in the next bed calmly slipped one onto her...
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    Public holidays Galicia 17, 18 May 2023

    Just a heads up for anyone in or coming to Santiago that today is Galician Literature Day, a public holiday and tomorrow Ascension, also a public holiday in Santiago. So shops will be shut ( bars, restaurants and probably tourist shops open). My albergue thought that museums would be open. And...
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    14 "spare" days in Santiago - what to do.

    I had allowed myself plenty of time to walk the Caminho Portugues, so that in Santiago I would be able to meet up with a friend who first introduced me to the Camino, and who was walking her final section from O Cebreiro to Santiago. Shortly before leaving her doctor advised her not to walk. I...
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    Getting Compostela several days after arriving in Santiago - any problems?

    For complex reasons I am planning to arrive in Santiago, with credential duly stamped, but will then leave immediately to visit other places. I am returning to SdC for transport home and I would like to visit the Pilgrim Office then. Is there any problem if I go to the pilgrims office several...
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    Suggestions for starting point north of Porto

    I am currently walking from Tomar to Coimbra and had always planned to skip Coimbra to Porto because of distances between albergues. 20 k per day is about my maximum. My plans have had to change and I need to shave a day or two off my walk. Please can anyone suggest a suitable place to restart...
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    Trying to post a query in Portuguese Central section

    I am a member, logged in and trying to post a query about a suitable start point north of Porto which can be reached in a day by public transport from Coimbra. This section of the forum states that I do not have sufficient privileges to post in that section. ??? Can anyone help please.
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    A time apart from daily life?

    This forum is a fabulous resource of practical information and moral support for those planning a potentially tough walk, in what is for many an unfamiliar continent. But I wonder how many of the anxieties shared here, about kit and brands, communications, baggage transport and the availability...
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    Accommodation pinch points on Caminho Portuguese?

    I'm hoping to walk after Easter starting at Tomar (which I particularly want to visit), then taking the train from Coimbra to Porto. I'll probably take the river/coast alternative out of Porto then cut back to the central route. My comfortable walking distance is 15-20 km per day, and I prefer...
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    Coping with change after Sarria - wisdom needed please

    I know how very fortunate I am to have the health, time, and money to walk for 4 weeks on the Camino Frances. And recognise that it is as valid to walk from Sarria as from anywhere else. But am finding it increasingly difficult not to become irritated; by large noisy groups, by cyclists...
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    Cafe movil after Carrion de Los Condes open now?

    Does anyone walking now know whether this is operating at the moment? We hope to be doing this stretch on Tuesday 3rd May and it would be good to know.
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    Tight boots and dodgy tendon -5 weeks to go. Help!

    After quite a lot of walking in lockdown I realised a couple of month ago that the soles on my trusty Meindl Veneto comfort fit boots, which never gave me any bother even when new, would need replacing. Only to find that repairers were quoting a 12 week turnaround. This seemed too tight when we...
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    Avoiding Easter crowds 2022

    We are hoping to complete our Camino, from Burgos to SDC, in April/May 2022. Having got deeper into our seventies since our our pre-pandemic first stage, it'll be a slow walk - 6-8 weeks. We hope to walk all the way, carrying our own light as possible packs. Which means that we are likely to be...
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    Recommendation for British pilgrimage route with short stages.

    While I still have hopes of completing my walk to SdC this autumn, if I can't go I'm thinking of doing a pilgrimage in the UK in September. My comfortable daily distance is around 10-12 miles a day, and I'd like to walk for up to 10 days. There are over 30 routes which meet these criteria in...
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    LIVE from the Camino Via Stansted (UK) help offered

    I see there are still flights from Spain and Portugal coming in to Stansted Airport. I live nearby. If anyone needs help/a stopover etc on their way home please message me.
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    Qualifying for Compostela: purpose

    I hope to complete my CF this spring, and my thoughts are turning to whether I might honestly apply for a compostela, assuming I make it. It's not a question of distance /stamp rules, but of meeting the requirements about purpose. I started my Camino for no reason other that a friend asked me...
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    Footwear for afternoons and evenings after walking.

    I am planning to walk CF Burgos to Santiago, starting in the week of 20 April, and probably taking a month. Last year I took lightweight flip-flops for Roncesvalles to Burgos, and they were fine (I loved that you could always recognise fellow pilgrims in the evenings by their flip-flops and...

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