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What is your criteria for "inexpensive." Will you be travelling alone or sharing a room?
I've begun doing research on the Norte from Gijon. In terms of distance, it appears that it's possible to keep the distance of stages under 15km, except for a few stages after Ribadeo. From Walls of Nalon...
You could do the Camino Aragones and then continue on to Logrono on the Camino Frances (about 250km). There's a good thread happening now on the Aragones here
Thanks to everyone. I went to Ojeda for Sunday afternoon dinner today. What a treat. Great meal, service, and atmosphere. Varied menu. I stayed with Castilian favorites: baby lamb leg and sops castelllana which I haven't had for years. Reasonable for what it was. Tapas at the bar were good too...
I've got a rest day in Burgos. Does anyone have recommendation for a good, reasonable restaurant in Burgos. It's time for something different from the usual Camino fare!
Great thread...so many recollections!
In the reflections chapter in my book, I recalled "I think the camaraderie made my Camino special...I was walking alone...but I wasn't."
At the beginning of that chapter, I quoted a line from a Garth Brooks song called "The Dance."
"...I could have missed...
I found a bar, I think it was Bar La Tita, on Rua Nova 39, in SdC that was overflowing with people on a chilly October Saturday afternoon. Everyone was eating their runny tortillas. I'm not one for runny eggs, but these were delicious.
You can't forget the incredible seafood and shellfish...
I posted about this subject on a previous thread. I've trying to figure out how to capture my thoughts and observations as I walk. My issue is that I hate using the cell phone for text input. I type too slow and make too many typos.
This post prompted me to try something. If you've got Google...
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