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  1. Bogong

    What do you wish you had worried less about?

    Most of the scary stuff I’d been reading on this site. Accommodation issues, blisters, bedbugs, distances, route issues, shoes, packweights, snoring and other albergue noises at night, medical facilities, went on and on. Left me fearful of a challenging ordeal which could threaten my very...
  2. Bogong

    Holy Week Experience

    On a tip -off from a friend i finished my Camino before Semana Santa, met up with my wife and sister-in -law and afterwitnessing a marvellous procession on Palm Sunday in Madrid right near our hotel spent the rest of the week in Toledo, the seat of the Catholic Church in Spain.Processions every...
  3. Bogong

    Celebrating my old age

    C’mon you blokes what’s going on? It’s not an age, it’s just a number. I did the Frances in my 70th year in late winter from St J p de P. The weather was vile most of the way Took me 26 days and I then toddled off to Muxia. And I’d knocked my body around quite a lot in the years before then. I’d...
  4. Bogong

    Drinking water @hotels

    A very cogent comment. A few years back here ( Australia, and I think it was Sydney), an accredited laboratory tested bottled waters on sale which advertised their purity etc. Most had trace substances of things they claimed freedom from which were above levels set for tap water. The most...
  5. Bogong

    Five Extra Days

    Anuwhere is fabulous. But locals in Spain told me the country has two magical cities, Santiago de Compostela and Toledo. Toledo was an earlier capital and is the seat of the Roman Catholic chyrch in Spain. It has a particularly grim civil war history. It was captured by rebel Moor forces...
  6. Bogong

    Where can I find prayer opportunities on my way?

    It’s sad to think that there’s a hesitancy by some to post on a straightforward and entirely personal and inoffensive matter of faithgiven the Camino is and has always been essentially a Christian religious pilgrimage. I prayed along the way every day targeting family members and friends. Paul’s...
  7. Bogong

    I arrived in Santiago and didn't see a single pilgrim.

    In 2014 I walked the Frances. The last two days from Sarria I saw only one other pilgrim. Raining most of the way. When I walked through the archway into the square there was only one person in the whole square, a local. Still raining. The cathedral front was covered in scaffolding. The road...
  8. Bogong

    I asked AI for a picture

    My avatar is looking back along the track from the top of the hill out of Castrojeriz. Early March 2014. Note the huge numbers of pilgrims. The whole walk from St. J was very much like this. Only one other pilgrim on the last two days into SdC De Colores Bogong
  9. Bogong

    Advance bookings!!! (Are they ruining the Camino?)

    There are many wonderful and iconic walks around the world, even in our own countries. The Camino is not just a “walk” it’s a pilgrimage to the tomb of St James and has deep religious significance for many. There are other similar pilgrimages elsewhere in Europe, Asia, and many parts of the...
  10. Bogong

    Getting my Compostela home undamaged

    February/March. Left J p de P 10.30 am on 28th arrived S de C 9am 26th
  11. Bogong

    Santiago cake

    I absolutely pigged out on this stuff in Galicia. They were always the same, flat, definitely a tart( tarta) not a cake( pastel) although the terms seem to be used interchangeably. It’s a very simple peasant recipe. I searched high and low for a recipe when I got back to Autralia but couldn’t...
  12. Bogong

    Getting my Compostela home undamaged

    Interesting. When I walked 9 years ago I was given one. Didn’t even ask. Perhaps. because I looked so scruffy and wet and smelt vile. Early morning slosh in through rain and modtly pre-dawn dark from Lavacolla. De Colores Bogong
  13. Bogong

    Should we give recommendations on the forum?

    The quality of services, such as accommodation, restaurants, airlines etc will vary over time and I think most recognise and accept that. Individual assessments will also vary. What does concern me however are recommendations for gear. These generally seem to focus on the high expensive end of...
  14. Bogong

    Half Way Certificate Compared to End Compostela

    I was lamenting how ridiculously commercialised the whole thing is becoming. All about money! The compostela with the selloed credencial is a personalised memory, but I shudder to think how things may go in future? And halfway between where and where? How about from Rome, Canterbury, Jerusalem...
  15. Bogong

    Half Way Certificate Compared to End Compostela

    You can get a certificate anywhere along the Camino. It’s called a sello. De colores Bogong
  16. Bogong

    How to get a Compostela without the crazy 100 k

    People won’t like this but there is a way utilised by many. Several ways. First take a taxi, stop outside a village or two and stroll in and get a sello. The other way is to take a bus tour. Around Spain After my Camino I saw bus tours advertised which guaranteed a compostela at the end, no...
  17. Bogong

    "The profile of pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago: 90% are Catholics, 48% do so for spiritual reasons"

    Thinking a bit about this: - people on this site are only a very tiny proportion of camino walkers. So I would be a bit careful about dismissing these figures too quickly; - a lot of us tend to gravitate toward others we can communicate with who may be walking for various reasons and who may or...
  18. Bogong

    Discarded face masks

    They’re the new cigarette butts Bogong
  19. Bogong

    After the Camino

    G’day Maureen, Here’s one really from left field. The Camino has a spiritual pilgrimage as its underpinning. Easter Day in 2022 is Sunday 17 April. The week before in Spain is a fabulous celebration of Christ’s trial, crucifixion and resurrection. If you haven’t experienced it before, go a...
  20. Bogong

    Which hat looks better?

    Here's mine. It's the type the cash croppers wear deep in the rainforests north of Cairns with the front rim turned under De colores Bogong

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