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  1. Magnara

    Breakfast in France

    The whole food thing is so much better in France than in Spain - you're getting plenty of good advice about the breakfasts, but you will be delighted by the dinners at the albergues. Always go for demi-pension - you will get an excellent evening meal included in your tariff, simple, no choices...
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    Coming home: Help for the heartbroken

    A very wise forum friend who has walked many caminos - Sillydoll - once commented on a similar thread, "Who would have thought you would miss your backpack?" So true, first comes the thrill of finishing, then the sigh of realising that you have finished. It certainly makes for an addiction, but...
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    Quietest Camino

    The Via Francigena was very quiet when we did it in 2010. We only met a couple of pilgrims between France and Rome. But everyone we met in villages along the route understood what we were doing, so we had a constant cheer squad. It was great, although when we arrived in St Peter's we had a task...
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    Parador pilgrim food

    Although we are far from well-off, two of the other pilgrims we got to know quite well over a week as we ate with them each day at the Parador were clearly surviving on very little. We gave a little bit of money to them as we left Santiago to help them on their way. So it works in various ways.
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    Parador pilgrim food

    Because we had only seen about 6 other pilgrims in the whole of our camino all the way from SJPP to Santiago (because of the season) it was really nice to have that communal time and exchange stories and fellow-feeling. It wasn't about the food, or the euros. It was the company. I also did like...
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    Parador pilgrim food

    We walked in the winter and arrived in Santiago early February. There were only a handful of pilgrims, and we went (and were kindly welcomed) every day for 5 days.
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    Eating vegan diet on the Camino

    My daughter went to Spain as a university exchange student 15 years ago. (She was in Vigo in Galicia). Maybe things have changed since then? She was a vegetarian and had been for a very long time. Within a couple of weeks she wrote home and said that if she tried to be vegetarian in Spain she...
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    Running a gite/auberge on the Le Puy route

    Just got the name of that gite in Moissac from another forum post - Gite Ultreia, with hosts Rom and Aiden.
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    Running a gite/auberge on the Le Puy route

    There is an Irish couple who are the hosts where we stayed in Moissac - it was a friendly happy and apparently successful place, so it could be worth getting in touch with them and asking their insider opinion.
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    WHY would you do a winter camino?

    Ditto to all the other replies, about how we found it and what we liked about it. But the choice in the first place was because that was the only time that we could get 5 weeks leave from work. the rest of the amazing experience just flowed from that.
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    Not Drinking and Meals

    It had been a bad year for bedbugs when we walked the Frances. So I asked my daughter Zoe who is fluent in Spanish to write a card like the one people have suggested for you, asking if the albergue was free of bedbugs. Zoe laughed and said, "Sure, but in Spanish even to say something rude takes...
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    What to eat on a Winter Camino

    Our winter walk menu - bocadillo for lunch, menu del dia for dinner, wine every day, a cake mid morning with coffee if we could find it, and chocolate late afternoon every day just as the energy started to flag. Not scientific, but very enjoyable, very easy, and we made it to Santiago (with me 5...
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    The Trees of Spain

    Walking along silent forest paths, filtered light overhead, soft leaves underfoot...aaah...one of the reasons we coming back to pilgrimages. It's not something we have in Oz - which brings me to those eucalypts...sorry, apologies from downunder! It is a weird feeling for an Aussie walkin ginto...
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    A Camino Story (The Camino Provides)... Do you have one?

    This happened on the Via Francigena, actually, which has far fewer pilgrims. We came to a village where we couldn't find anywhere at all to stay, and it was very cold and getting dark. We then saw a sign to a convent, knocked on the door, asked for a bed and after a moment's hesitation was...
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    Walking from Le Puy to Santiago (hopefully into Portugal) this December

    I agree with everyone's comments - we want you to arrive safely! There are other threads that will also give you good information about walking in the winter months. Even if you don't get to Spain until February it will still be very cold, so if you read those posts you will be able to be well...
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    When did you first become 'camino conscious'?

    I read about it in the newspaper and thought, "I'm going to do that." My husband thought I was crazy but came with me anyway and we both were addicted from then on, our first was Spain in winter, then the Via Francigena a couple of years later , and last year Le Puys to St Jean. All fantastic...
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    Why did you walk the Camino more than once?

    Going again and again is so common... we were just talking about it a couple of days with our walking buddies from last year, laughing and saying it's a bit like childbirth - you forget the pain. My husband and I have walked three now, each a different route (Spain, Italy and France) and a...
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    Which One Would You Choose?

    Le Puy is fantastic, we walked the Frances in winter so I don't know about the crowds, but they sound very daunting to me. Le Puy, as others have said had so much less traffic (although we walked it in April May and there are lots of French recreational walkers then, because of several long...
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    The Cathar Trail.

    Wow, a Cathar Trail! After we walked Le Puy to SJPP in May/June this year, we hired a car and toured in that area for a few weeks. It is truly lovely country and the history, as people have said, is quite fascinating. I would highly recommend doing that walk ( and it has got my imagination...
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    Couples that walk the camino together

    We always walk together on all of our pilgrim journeys, and my husband does walk slower than would be his solo gait. Even when we are not talking, it is so nice to walk side by side for weeks on end. Maggie Ramsay "The Italian Camino" (Amazon)

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