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  1. seashell

    Phone apps Camino Frances

    I’ve always used maps.me for which some very helpful Dutch people created a set of KML files of routes and accommodation on all of the major Caminos. Maps,me was open source but has become somewhat commercialised so the original founders forked the code into a new app called Organic Maps which...
  2. seashell

    What is the nicest thing that anyone has said to you on the camino?

    ‘Buen Camino’. Spoken by a young Chinese lad, who seeing my wife and I flop, tired and aching onto the grass underneath the shade of an old olive tree, came across and insisted that we take the large orange he had been about to eat.
  3. seashell

    Four Categories of Pilgrims

    My two pennies worth. I reckon that most of us who walk do so for all sorts of reasons but the joy that one gets from meeting kindness has to be the most common denominator. In what is often such an unkind world the constant rubbing of shoulders with kind people is refreshment of the fact that...
  4. seashell

    Vegetarian and Vegan Camino

    😮 You really can’t talk to davebugg like that; he’s a Camino institution and his opinions are generous, thoughtful and much valued. Your suggestion is naive and pretty much guaranteed to generate a fairly strong sense of ill will amongst the Spanish community. Pay close attention to Magwood’s...
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    Looking for an good app to set up my journal of the Caminho to family and friends

    There are lots of ways of doing this. Danielle823 mentioned blogger which is great. Personally I’ve used Wordpress to record my wife and my Caminos. It’s pretty trivial to set up and use. Go to Wordpress.com, choose a username, give an email address and choose a password and you’re good to go. I...
  6. seashell

    Wise Pilgrim Big Map

    A couple of years ago we bought a large laminated Michelin map of Spain and marked up some of the routes. Since then we’ve walked the Frances and the Primitivo and are walking the Portugues from Porto in March. The map sits above our kitchen table as a permanent reminder of what we’ve done and...
  7. seashell

    Some folks just really don't get it ....

    A close friend and his wife joined us en route at Leon and walked with us for three days leaving us near Rabanal. They enjoyed the experience more than they expected and are I think, intending to join us on the short Mozarabe from Almeria to Grenada in March and possibly even walking with us on...
  8. seashell

    Vegan Food on The Camino Frances

    We’ve walked both the Francés and the Primitivo recently. As we progressed along our journeys we became more and more committed to being vegetarian and then vegan wherever possible. We heard pigs squealing outside an abattoir, we were persuaded to eat octopus at a pulverised in Melide. That was...
  9. seashell

    Snowing in Burgos.

    Just arrived in Fonforia after walking from Trabadelo over O Cebreiro. The path up to O Cebreiro is free of snow but there was a km or so of snow as soon as we left O Cebreiro. Walking was very difficult; trying to walk in previous footprints is extremely tiring. There were further gullies of...
  10. seashell

    Snowing in Burgos.

    It was snowing as we left Rabanal this morning and conditions were quite difficult until we stopped for lunch at El Acebo.

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