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  1. Adrian Harding 65

    If you had to choose to skip a part of the route. What would be your choice?

    42 days is plenty enough time to walk it all. Bear in mind that the 'normal' time (if there is a normal time) is 33 days from SJPDP to SdC, which gives you 9 days to do the short hop to Muxia. You won't need to rush, you won't need to miss any of the excitement, adventures, or sights, and you...
  2. Adrian Harding 65

    What is Your Average Walking Distance per Day?

    I have always walked 30 Kms per day on each of my Caminos. BUT..... I certainly wouldn’t recommend it to a first-timer, and I honestly don’t know why I do it myself. At the end of each day, I question my own motivation, and promise myself that “tomorrow, I will slow down and be a bit easier on...
  3. Adrian Harding 65

    Stepping on my Shadow

    Not so young! My Forum ID is Adrian Harding 60, because I was 60 when I walked my first Camino in 2017. Assuming that there are 48 different named Caminos in Spain, and I plan to walk one each year, I shall be 108 when I walk my last one.
  4. Adrian Harding 65

    Stepping on my Shadow

    How wonderful for you, in such a strange year. I’d love to hear your account of your journey. Please, let some sort of normality return, because I need to be out there again soon. And it seems like you feel the same way. I’ll see you one day, sitting on a waymarker by the side of the trail...
  5. Adrian Harding 65

    Stepping on my Shadow

    We were slightly out of sync, then, as I was there from mid March to the third week of April, passing through Muxia on Easter Day. Angela and Tigger were part of my first few days on the Camino, in the Espinal to Zubiri stage - I had written more about her, and what a fascinating encounter it...
  6. Adrian Harding 65

    Stepping on my Shadow

    When it happens, you will love it, every minute of it, I promise you.
  7. Adrian Harding 65

    Stepping on my Shadow

    That, for me, was the whole point. I didn’t carry the best backpack, didn’t wear the best shoes, didn’t eat in the best restaurants, and certainly didn’t drink the best wine. We are all expected to raise our standards in our ‘normal’ life, but I got the greatest pleasure from lowering my...
  8. Adrian Harding 65

    Stepping on my Shadow

    Thanks for your kind and positive feedback. I hope that my article doesn't come across as being too earnest. I had a lot of fun, and am still in contact with almost everyone I met on the on the way. And many of them have visited me in England for pleasure and long walks. I am as keen to neck a...
  9. Adrian Harding 65

    Stepping on my Shadow

    I was asked to submit an article about walking the Camino Frances for an on-line magazine, and it seems to have been well received. Perhaps some others may be happy to read it? Stepping on My Shadow – Walking the Camino de Santiago It’s six-thirty in the morning, and my shadow is reaching out...
  10. Adrian Harding 65

    Camino Phrases and Titles

    I totally concur.
  11. Adrian Harding 65

    LIVE from the Camino Am I on the meseta yet?

    I walked with many people who told me that they were going to skip the Meseta. But like many others who have answered the OP, this became my favourite part out of many favourite stages. Those Meseta skippers, what they missed! The Camino is all about variety and different experiences. I couldn't...
  12. Adrian Harding 65

    Starting in Burgos

    Burgos is beautiful. One useful tip: the cathedral entrance lobby has loads of luggage storage which you can use for a returnable Euro. If you get there early in the day, before the albergues are taking registrations, deposit your rucksack here and enjoy your tour of the town unencumbered by...
  13. Adrian Harding 65

    What is Your Average Walking Distance per Day?

    I completed two weeks ago, and I planned for 24 Kms (15 miles per day) based on the Brierley stages, but in the end I did 30 kms per day, and fitted in SDC - Muxia - Fisterra in the time I had originally allocated for CF. So, I covered 1000 kms in 33 days. On my return home, my wife asked me why...
  14. Adrian Harding 65

    stranded in bayonne for the night

    That's great to know. The "60" in my name might give you a clue about my age and level of fitness, so, just like you, I wanted to keep my options open. If I was making good progress, I would keep going to Roncesvalles, but if I felt that easing myself in was the better idea, then I'd rest...
  15. Adrian Harding 65

    stranded in bayonne for the night

    This response is going to make me have to change my plans. I was also going to spend the night in Bayonne, take the early train to SJPDP on March 18th, check in at the Pilgrims Office, buy my provisions and head off up the Valcarlos route late morning. It hadn't occurred to me that the Pilgrims...
  16. Adrian Harding 65

    First timer starting in March 2017

    I see you are from Dorset. Me too. Whereabouts?
  17. Adrian Harding 65

    First timer starting in March 2017

    Being a first-timer, and starting in March, which is a bit earlier than I intended, I wanted to say how incredibly useful this forum has been in my planning. Every single unknown that was buzzing in my head has found an answer here. I'm celebrating reaching the venerable age of 60, and...

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