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  1. Alasdair Kay

    First Day in SJPP -- Time to Explore

    I would say if you are booked take them morning in SJPP and have a leisurely lunch and then miss the early morning stampede up the hill. you will also have less of a crush at the pilgrim office as well..
  2. Alasdair Kay

    Refused a bed

    I only had this once when on my penultimate day in Finisterre a young family with a baby moved into the bunk next to me. I was really homesick and missing my wife children and grandchildren so to hear the baby quietly feeding in the bunk next to me was really re-assuring. The poor parents were...
  3. Alasdair Kay

    Young woman looking for a walking friend or group

    This is really good advice .... commentary made on walking buddies is very true at 6:46 https of this video .. Andrew gives great advice ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIgMAs4-J8s To be honest language and walking pace tends to sort out who you walk with... you will find plenty of companionship on...
  4. Alasdair Kay

    dresscode evenings in alberque

    Got a lovely memory of arriving just the other side of Sarria in a large Albergue and most of our Camino family were having afternoon drinks in the sun. We must have looked like a bunch of sunburned, dusty, footsore, tramps with agaffa tape around the feet. When suddenly in came two "Camino...
  5. Alasdair Kay

    dresscode evenings in alberque

    Dress Code tends to be ... no one cares .... Peregrino you leave all sense of looking good by the time you get to Roncesvalles especially if you go over the Napolean ... just try to not get stuck to someone else's Compeed in the shower.. and yes the Lycra is in abundance. Puts you off your...
  6. Alasdair Kay

    Anyone Stayed in Auberge du Pelerin in SJPP? New Pilgrim Needs Info

    back again when I was there I looked in on this Albergue and it was much more ot my taste Refuge Accueil Paroissial Maison Kaserna 43 rue d' Espagne 64220 SAINT-JEAN-PIED-DE-PORT Tél +33 5 59 37 65 17 The atmosphere was much more serene
  7. Alasdair Kay

    Anyone Stayed in Auberge du Pelerin in SJPP? New Pilgrim Needs Info

    Hi I stayed there at the beginning of my Camino in 2016 it was very full and whilst all you needed was there I found it not a great stay. My booking had got lost but thankfully I had the receipt that the money had been taken from my account so they gave me a bed. This is very subjective as I was...
  8. Alasdair Kay

    Splitting the First Day

    Hi Bob I would say yes definitely the first stretch form STJPDP is very physical from Hunto to Orrison. Secondly the view from Orrison is magical and twenty minutes over coffee to drink it in because you are in a bed race for Roncesvalles doesn't cut it. Thirdly take the first four days easy...
  9. Alasdair Kay

    What is the one Albergue that you would say not to miss

    yes those two are fabulous most people in Carrion head to the Albergue but don't miss Santa Clar if only not to be in a bunk bed I also loved Barbedello the Albergue with a swimming pool and a great bar ...
  10. Alasdair Kay

    Getting things off my chest post Camino Frances

    He did I stayed at the Albergue of her brother ... great albergue as well
  11. Alasdair Kay

    Post Camino can things ever be normal again?

    beautiful thank you
  12. Alasdair Kay

    Post Camino can things ever be normal again?

    Since I've returned I've not experienced dawn with a new horizon filled with mist and sunshine my longing increases.... just to see one more yellow arrow would make my heart soar.. Daily I dream of Castrojeriz, of sitting in St Anton's drinking in the architecture. Walking in the heat with the...
  13. Alasdair Kay

    Post Camino can things ever be normal again?

    Beautiful just beautiful
  14. Alasdair Kay

    Post Camino can things ever be normal again?

    so so true
  15. Alasdair Kay

    accommodation St Jean

    I was able to book at the Aubergue du Pelerin just down from the Pilgrims office but it was my worse experience of the whole camino. The accommodation is ok but I'd eat somewhere else and the hospitalero was sadly pretty unfriendly. But fear not it gets much better in Spain
  16. Alasdair Kay

    Post Camino can things ever be normal again?

    Thank you all of you it has got easier apart from bizarrely earlier today I thought i could kill a jamon y caeso bocadillo .... the emotions have moved from sorrow to joy.. trying not to plan another yet
  17. Alasdair Kay

    Post Camino can things ever be normal again?

    So I'm back from the most amazing 38 days ever walking from STJPDP to Finisterre and Muxia .... and life returns to normal. The problem is I've changed, and watching video's of the Camino makes me cry. Bizarrely I long to be awake in an Albergue at 5:30 am packing my rucksack and anticipating...
  18. Alasdair Kay

    Finding meal in Roncesvalles on Wednesday night 4th of May

    thanks all of you
  19. Alasdair Kay

    Finding meal in Roncesvalles on Wednesday night 4th of May

    fantastic can you book on arrival at the monastery? or do you need to book in advance ?
  20. Alasdair Kay

    The prayer used at Cruz de Ferro?

    I find this conversation fascinating as a theologian and Priest. I think the rise in the last 30 years of the creating of shrines very interesting, especially at the site of accidents, in the apparel and tattoos of people, what people now place in graveyards, and even a resurgence of religious...

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