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  1. Anthony Rocco

    Afraid of top bed without fence

    Our first night in Roncevalles we heard a large thump which woke us up. A big Irish lad had fallen. My wife did some stitching of his bleeding forehead. This scared the wits out of many of us. Since then, I have been very leary of top bunks with no fences and have used every possible means to...
  2. Anthony Rocco

    Is it possible to walk from A Coruña to Malpica?

    Many thanks!
  3. Anthony Rocco

    Is it possible to walk from A Coruña to Malpica?

    Some friends recently walked the Camino Dos Faros. They said it was tough at time, but an experience they will savor a long time. We are interested in walking this short route to Finisterre, but are wondering if we can start in A Coruña , walking from there to Malpica, where Dos Faros begins. If...
  4. Anthony Rocco

    Zabaldika donativo

    I'm confident that it will be. Why do I say this? When we showed up, we were among the first. Then more and more and more came. They simply put down mats for all the newcomers. It was a packed room. After a very simple communal meal in their kitchen, we gathered in the 12th century bell tower...
  5. Anthony Rocco

    Eclipses over Santiago

    It was perfect in Norwalk, Ohio yesterday, just as it was 7 years ago in Madisonville, Tennessee.
  6. Anthony Rocco

    Spain total solar eclipse, August 12, 2026: Are camino towns preparIng?

    We just returned home from watching our second total solar eclipse here in the U.S. in 7 years. Our next is in 20 years. We have become hooked on the magical, mystical, moving unique experience of a total eclipse and are eager to go to Spain in two years to see the total solar eclipse there. It...
  7. Anthony Rocco

    I am starting from Lourdes on April 4, 2024

    We also took the train from Toulouse. Short ride. Candlelight procession at 9pm. Walk from Lourdes was only us. We did not call ahead but always found someone who took us to the village albergue. And we were the only ones there. From Oloron we did not go on to SJPdP, but went over the Pyrenees...
  8. Anthony Rocco

    Local Travel Agency?

    APOC was using the term "Lighten the Burden" metaphorically, not physically. I was using it both physically and mentally. Traveling with kids in my experience means paying far more attention to them than whatever one is otherwise doing. Parenthood has obligations and responsibilities. APOC...
  9. Anthony Rocco

    Local Travel Agency?

    All good points. My only reason for writing what I did is that I felt so many were dumping on the idea of using an agency that they were laying a guilt trip on the person if they decided to "lighten their burden "(the theme of this year's APOC Conference in San Antonio). As someone who raised my...
  10. Anthony Rocco

    Local Travel Agency?

    I admire all walkers. At the other extreme of the fully supported camino is the mendicant pilgrim walk. This is still occurring and the interest has grown since Ann Sieben, a mendicant consecrated by the Catholic Church, leads groups on mendicant walks frequently. One of her most popular is the...
  11. Anthony Rocco

    Local Travel Agency?

    Go back and look at the original request. Look at all the limitations. Did you face any of these? Yes, they can book their own hotels. Yes, they can arrange for luggage transfer. Yes, they can find places no further than 10 miles apart. But it will take a lot of research and having had three...
  12. Anthony Rocco

    Local Travel Agency?

    There are so many distinctions that it's hard to put a percentage on it. Tour agencies will usually include accommodations, luggage transfers, meals and even flights and other transportation. In our case, we only asked for accommodations and luggage transfers. No meals, no transfers, no...
  13. Anthony Rocco

    Local Travel Agency?

    Not sure about the recent experiences of all the others who have commented, but as a trainer of wannabe peregrinos, I would say that at least in our chapter, a decreasing number and a small percentage are now walking unsupported. And this particularly applies to those walking the last 100 kms...
  14. Anthony Rocco

    Local Travel Agency?

    You can book it all yourself, but if you can afford it or seek the peace of mind that everything arranged will bring, I would definitely recommend choosing one of the many agencies. I would never promote one agency, but our experience last September with Camino Ways was not what you described...
  15. Anthony Rocco

    Advice… please… 🙏🏻 (About starting time each day)

    On our first camino, we were determined to walk every step. When we arrived in Monjardin, everything was taken up by German tour groups. And that was 10 years ago. So, being so determined, we and a Danish walker decided to sleep on park benches. Suddenly a car pulled up and a lady waved at us to...
  16. Anthony Rocco

    Advice… please… 🙏🏻 (About starting time each day)

    Lots of good advice above. The best, in my view, is to start with the way you prefer. See if it works. If it doesn't, make course corrections. On our first camino, well before the numbers leaped, we still left early from SJPdP and were glad we did. We got choice bunks, no crowds lined up to...
  17. Anthony Rocco

    The Way: how do you feel about THE movie?

    I always considered this a perfect introduction to the camino for those who are on the fence and need some extra motivation. It's brief, fun to watch, touches on so many aspects of the camino but never gets bogged down in detail. My only caveat is that the caminos I walked for so many years...
  18. Anthony Rocco

    The Way: how do you feel about THE movie?

    On our first camino, and many after that, we always seem to meet people of all ages with stories that can only be described as life imitating art. The characters in The Way came to life for us. One lady whom we kept walking with and bumping into seemed so odd, always dressed in the same black...
  19. Anthony Rocco

    The Way: how do you feel about THE movie?

    Forget the poll. Two of our most memorable experiences on our first camino many years ago were related to the movie. I will relate the most heartwarming. We arrived in Santiago, received our compostela, and to be sure we did not miss the swinging of the botafumeiro, took our seats two hours...
  20. Anthony Rocco

    Sello (stamp) Obsession: Is there a medical term for this?

    Wow! Those are so cool. For anyone who has walked the Primitivo, that stamp in particular is a wonderful memento. In walking the Podiensis last September/October, we were disappointed that sellolitis cannot be satiated. It was not easy on a number of stages to get two stamps....not churches, not...

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