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    Does anyone know what's going on with the 'milestones'?

    Here's a photo of the new ones taken a couple of weeks ago. I think the carved arrows will be nice - harder for vandals or no-do-gooders to "reroute" the camino. This photo was taken as leaving Portomarin- in some areas they aren't all set yet (or they are in the middle of also doing a...
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    So I don't want to walk all the way down the hill before the end of the day...

    I'm not sure when you will be walking, but in mid January we found nothing open in Fonfria- no albergue, no cafe, etc... This was not unusual for this time of year, but just wanted to mention it in case you may also be there in low season....
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    LIVE from the Camino Lucky winter weather!

    Where did all of the great weather go? We had a really fun time up to Foncebadon and Cruz de Ferro- Snow and lots of wind! It actually was fun- and made those extra kgs of winter gear that I have been carrying seem worth the extra weight! Now a forecast of rain all week.... We're...
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    LIVE from the Camino Lucky winter weather!

    Beautiful weather continued - so much good weather that we were kind of happy to need to use our rain ponchos (otherwise they are just dead weight!). A bit of windy rain today on the Meseta...
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    LIVE from the Camino Lucky winter weather!

    Goncalo, we will probably see you if you only started a week after us- we are going very slow! :-)
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    Christmas on the Camino

    Merry (belated) Christmas from the Camino Frances! I wanted to share two photos from the wonderful Christmas dinner that they hosted at the Burgos Casa de los Cubos albergue on Christmas Eve. After having only seen two other pilgrims in the previous five days (and knowing both of them would...
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    LIVE from the Camino Lucky winter weather!

    My husband and I started today, and we feel very lucky. Lucky to have the opportunity to walk the Camino, and lucky to have amazing weather! Today from St Jean to Valcarlos had light rain/ heavy mist for parts of the walk (we didn't leave St Jean until 2pm, it started sprinkling around...
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    Newbie needing advice

    Welcome Tony! I'm on this forum planning our winter Camino on the Frances that starts in a few weeks. This will be my first Camino so I'm not going to be a lot of help planning for the Camino, but I did hike 1100 miles of the Appalachian Trail in 2004. I think when people question...
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    Winter Camino- will I need to use a phone a lot to find open places?

    Thank you all for the suggestions, I'm going in tomorrow to try to sort it out. Unfortunately I think that since I need to keep texting available to my US phone number (for work reasons, unfortunately), I may just have to do ATT's international plan.... I have an old iphone 4 i could unlock...
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    Winter Camino- will I need to use a phone a lot to find open places?

    Thank you all for the responses. I finally got some information about my At&t options. Varying monthly rates with a charge per minute (higher monthly fee gives lower price per minute). I don't think I'd be making a lot of calls- I plan to call from albergues/bars in advance to check what...
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    December 2015

    I also wanted to share this photo that someone posted a couple of years ago - Christmas at Granon where it looks like there were 10 people. I would love to be in Granon at Christmas, but don't know if that will work out or not.
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    December 2015

    My husband and I will be walking in December! We're not sure of our exact schedule yet (will depend on our work schedule to finish what we need before we go), but we'll probably start in St Jean sometime between December 10th and 18th. Maybe I will see you while walking, if not- have a...
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    Winter Camino- will I need to use a phone a lot to find open places?

    My husband and I are planning to do a Camino from St Jean to Santiago and possibly Finnesterre starting in mid December 2015. (We know about Napoleon route being closed and plan to go Valcarlos route). My question is: Based on how many things will be closed at this time of year, do you...
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    Winter - How to get to St Jean?

    Thank you for the words of caution. We don't plan to do the Napoleon route - we plan to do the Valcarlos route. I have read that the last part from Valcarlos in to Roncesvalle also has a steep section up to Ibaneta - we'll watch the conditions and the weather and make a safe decision...
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    Winter - How to get to St Jean?

    Yes, thank you for making sure we're not crazy! :-) We plan to walk the Valcarlos route from SJPdP which should avoid the worst of the mountains out of SJPdP, and if it's too bad even on the Valcarlos route we'll adjust our plans as necessary. We do have some winter camping, ski-in...
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    Winter - How to get to St Jean?

    Yes thank you for the heads up on the Napoleon route being closed, I had read that and we're ok doing the lower valley Valcarlos route instead (which I think I have read would be open). Maybe it's silly but we want to start in France, and hoping to go to Finisterre, for a border-to-border walk.
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    Winter - How to get to St Jean?

    My husband and I are planning to walk from St Jean Pied de Port in mid December 2015. This will be our first Camino and we're very excited (and ready for some cold weather!). We'll most likely fly in to Barcelona (want to go to a futbol game). I've tried to determine how we can get to...

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