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  1. George Vancouver

    Camino de Santiago de Gran Canaria experience

    My wife and I finished the Camino de Gran Canaria yesterday (Dec 13, 2021). This is to give some impressions and information from our experience. There are other good posts offering perspectives on this Camino, including a recent one by Steven Baggs (Steve you have a very understanding wife!)...
  2. George Vancouver

    LIVE from the Camino Paq Peregrino - our experience

    We're travelling long-term so needed to ship suitcases from Madrid to await us in Santiago. Here's a few things we learned for next time. 1. Madrid airport post office is temporarily closed. We had to go to a small post office near our hotel. They had never shipped pilgrims' luggage before and...
  3. George Vancouver

    Compostelas for Dummies

    There are other threads on the new Compostela system. I didn't find one that explained it simply and clearly. (If there is one I apologize. Feel free to delete this thread Ivar.) I will try explain so even dummies like me can understand. 1. There is a placard with a QR code outside the front...
  4. George Vancouver

    LIVE from the Camino Norte vs Frances - Yikes!

    We started the Camino del Norte on August 5th. We were spoiled to mostly have the trails to ourselves for 30 days. There were batches of pilgrims at certain points. Many Spaniards walked for a week or 10 days from Bilbao, Santander or Gijon. In general though there were not that many walking...
  5. George Vancouver

    LIVE from the Camino Day 2 on Norte

    We’ve finished day 2 on the Norte. Saw very few pilgrims in Irun. Walked with one pilgrim to San Sebastian and saw only two others. Sat for an hour having leisurely lunch at Pasaia. Didn’t see a single pilgrim walk by to the ferry. Saw a few more pilgrims today from San Sebastian. Maybe 15...
  6. George Vancouver

    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Flew Vancouver to Madrid July 31

    For the information of Canadian travellers, we flew Vancouver to Madrid via Munich on July 31 with no issues. As of now Spain considers Canada a low risk country so no vaccine or PCR test was required. HOWEVER, even to transit through Germany we had to have proof of vaccination or negative PCR...
  7. George Vancouver

    COVID Cash or Card? Answered Thanks.

    To those currently on the Camino, is everything still pretty much cash-based or have merchants and albergues switched to non-cash transactions because of Covid?

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