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  1. Canucks

    Death of American pilgrim in Castromaior today

    So sorry for your loss. Our thoughts are with you during this difficult time.
  2. Canucks

    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    I think it’s pretty obvious by now why the OP isn’t having the expected vacation she thought she would have. A longer Camino would allow for looking inward instead of only outward.
  3. Canucks

    Camino Snobs

    Judge and be judged......a part of life. As an admission, I found that the normal camino fatigue that set in at the end produced some internally kept thoughts towards the "Sarrians" as we walked the final 100 Kms.....700km in and feeling tired, dirty and wanting to see SdeC. As I passed them...
  4. Canucks

    Maybe its me

    We had such a good time in Lograno. The red wine mixed with cola was prevalent in Pamplona when we were there. All the locals in the tapas bars were drinking it...called a kalimuxto, or something close to that. Like a sangria and, while I agree it is a bit of a heresy to combine red wine with...
  5. Canucks

    General Questions re: Vezelay, Le Puy, Arles

    Since you asked "if you could do one of the routes, which would you do"....I can answer that since we could choose and did choose the Le Puy route. It was fantastic but very very different from the Frances. As has been mentioned over and over, you walk with the French, not necessarily with...
  6. Canucks

    Slaughter house on route concerns

    What a great thread. I have not seen any slaughterhouse along the Camino Frances. In fact, considering how pork-centric Spain is, I did not see pigs at all. Very weird. Maybe it had something to do with noticing other things..... Now poop......there were days when the smell was neverending and...
  7. Canucks

    Feeling a little judged from other commenters so...

    My comments in bold within the quote.
  8. Canucks

    Walking the Pyrenees with pre teens all unfit.

    As a response to the OP, doing the camino will, at the very least, allow you to become fit by the end of it. It's just walking. If you can walk, you can do any of the caminos. Whether you or any member of your family is incapable of the mental stamina required to get up and keep walking each...
  9. Canucks

    LIVE from the Camino Many available beds in Villafranca

    My son is about 50k from Santiago and the albergue he was in today had tons of empty beds. Very weird. After sarria it was more quiet.
  10. Canucks

    Canadian bank card?

    We used our bmo card and found that one of the common banks with ATMs in Spain did not work with our card. Santander was fine and the availability was frequent enough that we had no problems.
  11. Canucks

    Special places deserving exploration on C. Frances

    Another thumbs up for tapas bars in Logrono. It was our funnest extra day on the trip. We were there in September for the last day of some sort of festival of grapes......met by a marching band every time we stepped outside!! Very nice.
  12. Canucks

    Special places deserving exploration on C. Frances

    I definitely agree with the person that said the Samos abbey. And the little restaurant across from the gas station had a wonderful homemade paella. The most magical evening of the trip, listening to their evening service and the monks singing. Tapa bars in Pamplona, huge gold churches in tiny...
  13. Canucks

    Mundicamino

    We used mundocamino extensively both for our planning of the Camino and during. Didn't use or have a brierly book and was very happy. We didn't use any travel agency function that someone else referred to but used contact information or names of places given there to book many of our...
  14. Canucks

    Water bladder or no water bladder; that is my question?

    You said on two separate occasions that your two liter pack would weigh over 1 kg when full.....it will weigh over 2 kg incl the weight of the container. Water is exactly 1kg per liter.....I was wondering how long before someone noticed! We took a 2l camelback and usually filled it about half...
  15. Canucks

    Possible to walk CF staying only in private rooms?

    We stayed in private rooms all of the Frances and Le Puy caminos. There are plenty of options and we didn't feel like we "missed out" on anything any more than an albergue person "misses out" on things we experienced. The important thing is not feeling, despite inevitable comments to the...
  16. Canucks

    Good Things That Happen On the Camino

    All of the little old men and women along the way who would yell out to us if we took a wrong turn. The patient spaniards who weren't insulted by our butchering of their language in their country. And the patient French who were patient with our slightly better French but still not...
  17. Canucks

    Socializing with other pilgrims on the Camino

    I was wondering how long it would take for kalimotxo to be mentioned! We were in a tapas bar in Pamplona when I noticed the young men were drinking a specific drink that looked.....odd. When I asked what it was and they described it, it sounded absolutely horrific. Seeing I was a pilgrim, he...
  18. Canucks

    What can't be seen travelling by car?

    You don't see every rock and blade of grass along the way. You don't capture every smell and sound along the way. If I was in a car, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to be sprayed by a Spanish farmer with liquid manure a day past Sarria, for a total and complete assault on the senses. At...
  19. Canucks

    10 Things We Learned On Our First Camino....

    I used kinetic tape on my foot last week to see if it eased some tendon issues and it worked. We leave in 13 days for Le Puy do I may try walking with it on. I followed youtube instructions and it was critical to do so.
  20. Canucks

    Swollen hands and fingers

    Hey bchikergirl, we are just north of Kelowna and are doing the Le Puy route starting the 15th of September. When we walk here, we don't use poles and remark about our sausage fingers. On our camino last year we used poles and they totally fixed it. We also left our rings at home. I don't...

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