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  1. GingerHaddad

    Senior Newbies planning first Camino- advice?

    Highly recommend you contact Katherine at Follow the Camino and she will book your pensions/inns for you at the pace you desire, with breakfast and luggage transport. Additionally they send you detailed walking notes for each day, a training program and lots of great info. I’ve used them three...
  2. GingerHaddad

    SJPDP to Orisson?

    The first day to Orisson is a tough climb. Highly recommend you start the next morning, get there by lunch, relax in their lovely patio, and make your first Camino friends. My friend and I found we were strongly connected to 3 other women at our table via the Air Force, a little town in...
  3. GingerHaddad

    Aggressive scammers near Barbadelo

    I encountered the supposedly “deaf girls” scam in the woods near there last year in September - the ones I encountered were (reference to particular ethnic group deleted) suddenly she could hear and shook her head. I was very upset that a group of Koreans were giving them 20E notes, but I...
  4. GingerHaddad

    From which country this pilgrim is from?

    Lots of us are still looking for Yost!😃
  5. GingerHaddad

    Favorite albergue in the Camino Frances

    My favorite was the albergue in Ventas de Naron - not far past Portomarin. Family that runs it was so helpful, food was great, village tiny and lovely! Pilgrim hospital there dating to about 1100. Very small - I guess not too many pilgrims could get sick?😊
  6. GingerHaddad

    General enquiry about the final 100km of the Camino

    Last September I walked the last 114k in 7 days. Longest day was 15, shortest was 9. I’m 65 and was physically ready for the walk, but not the hills the first few days (I’m from Tampa, no hills, at least that was my excuse 😂), my lungs were on fire going up out of Sarria. NOT the gentle...
  7. GingerHaddad

    Your one picture that captures how you feel about being on the Camino!

    These are my two favorite photos - one the Way marker with my favorite hymn on it, and my intrepid friend Ursula, who grew up in East Germany and has been exploring the world since the wall fell in 1989.
  8. GingerHaddad

    First time - planning jitters

    Hi Deb! You’re going to LOVE the Frances! I found so many great packing lists for the Camino on Pinterest, I consolidated the best of them and began a checklist of what I thought I would really need. I only had two things I never used: my headlamp (I stayed in pensions - felt like I was too...
  9. GingerHaddad

    Favorite albergue in the Camino Frances

    I absolutely loved the little Albergue O Cruceiro between Portomarín and Ligonde. On the left in this tiny village with a cafe and pension with private rooms in addition to the albergue. Family-owned and operated, the Mom lent me clothes when my bag didn’t show up, daughter called Portomarín...

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