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Hello, this is my gear review. It’s 100% a review and not recommendations, because I don’t know you, I don’t know how long your back is or how wide your feet are or whether you run hot or cold or whether you love wet feet etc. But these are my reviews of what I used on Camino Frances and Camino...
Still scared, still can’t believe I’m doing this but I’m currently in Valcarlos where I am staying, I don’t fancy ending day one with the uphill section!
The weather is perfect, the Valcarlos route is just beautiful, so many birds and wildflowers and the lovely sound of the river. The off road...
Well, it was all going so well. 5 weeks to go, practical preparation is done, physical preparation is in hand but now I am freaking out about whether or not I can do it. The mental preparation is not going well.
Who am I kidding? I'm a shy, grieving introvert - how the hell am I going to walk...
Can anyone recommend a good book to give me a background to Franco's rule and more recent Spanish history please?
Having travelled in the Middle East and also to Sarajevo and other places where conflict is within living memory I know that what we may read about and consider history is actually...
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My dad wants to join me for 4-5 days on my Camino, I'm trying to convince him that I'd really love to end the camino with him, but which section on the Frances would you choose and why?
Hello everyone, I've been lurking for a little while and planning my first Camino (Frances) starting March 2022. I've loosely planned this several times over the years but life has always got in the way. I was widowed last year and life really is too short to put these things off so I've had 2...
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