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  1. Isca-camigo

    Camino awesome, Santiago not so much

    I'm going to be polite here, so much is said about the 100km as being not like the Camino previous to it and so not of value. I don't feel that way and it just as special to me as any other part of it, something I read recently and I can't pinpoint in my mind where, but to give the outline of...
  2. Isca-camigo

    Camino awesome, Santiago not so much

    Don't give up on Santiago the place, it has much to offer to your heart. Maybe on my 1st time after an incredible experience in arriving in the square I slightly looked at the place in the next few days with a disparaging eye, maybe expecting more or it did not meet my expectations with the...
  3. Isca-camigo

    Albergue kitchens closed down

    Genuine reply, make yourself responsible for cleaning the kitchen while you are at an albergue which does not want to open the kitchen,make yourself known to the Hospitelera/o, convince them that any tidying which needs doing because other people haven't done it then you will do it before you...
  4. Isca-camigo

    Status of the Cowboy Bar

    Elvis Bar -I think he has the closed sign permanently on his door now, even if he is open, not sure why he does it, my guess is that he is getting fussy over who comes in, if anybody complains about the smoking or other things he can always point to the closed sign and ask you to leave. The...
  5. Isca-camigo

    Advice on November / December 2021 - v. worried about travel feasibility!!

    This is the list for this year's winter opening of albegues it is updated quite regularly through the winter, of course it may be subject to rapid change due to circumstances beyond the control of the albegues http://www.aprinca.com/alberguesinvierno/ Bien Camino
  6. Isca-camigo

    4-5 days in April, where would you walk?

    Sarria to SDC is cool, he can finish your camino with you, meet your camino family and make friends of his own with the other newbies, he can also enjoy Santiago and get his own compostela. Sarria has train links to Madrid, and there is frequent buses fro Santiago airport. Its not too hard as a...
  7. Isca-camigo

    Sleeping outside

    I would add a caveat to sleeping out regularly in late autumn or winter and that is your chest/lungs could be adversely affected, I have met two people whose thing is sleeping out on Camino, and they both had hacking coughs from the damp cold conditions at night even when undercover.
  8. Isca-camigo

    Sleeping outside

    I have slept outside in a tent on several occasions and also just slept outside on a church portico in January. If I get to go in August Im going to take a bivvy bag with me instead of a tent, my reason is I don't want to book ahead all the time, I expect it to be busy as I will mainly be...
  9. Isca-camigo

    Albergues, Have most of the Albergues opened?

    I usually only walk the Frances in the off season in regular years,what i am reading about the Frances now in summer with accommodation , booking ahead and only a few albergues open sounds very familiar to that experience, if people are looking for tips and to maybe locate alternate places it...
  10. Isca-camigo

    LIVE from the Camino The Camino Needs You.

    A friend finished the Camino Aragones on Friday night at Obanos and yesterday he backtracked on the Frances to Trinidad de Arre. He passed around 50 pilgrims in total going westward, I'm going to make a guess here that 6 or 7 days earlier there would have been greater numbers going westward...
  11. Isca-camigo

    What's the state of the Camino Francés right now - June 2021?

    I have friends who have walked recently and one who is on his last day of walking the Camino in Mallorca before he ships to Girona and starts walking to Santiago from there, they haven't had vaccinations yet and the one walking at the moment isn't likely to have had a vaccination by the time he...
  12. Isca-camigo

    What's the state of the Camino Francés right now - June 2021?

    Have a look at this link for a Spanish Pilgrim who started walking the Camino Frances a couple of weeks ago from Logroño, he gives daily updates. What impressed me is how quickly nature reasserts itself, and in some places the CF looks overgrown, + you can get a feel for what is open( at the...
  13. Isca-camigo

    Where did that Town Go??

    Yes I have had the experience several times of places being very different or new places becoming clear which before did not warrant much attention on a previous visit and also not being where I expected them on a later one. On the Frances the 2nd time I walked between Rabanal and Cruz de...
  14. Isca-camigo

    Plans for 2021?

    Plan Y(iii) Well after much changing and fiddling around with dates and flights I am coming to the awful self realization that I might be staying on these sunny shores this year. My dates have now gone to late August early September, that was after I noticed that easyJet flights to SDC are not...
  15. Isca-camigo

    February 2021

    A friend is on the Camino Interior Portuguese at the moment nearing Chaves. Verin is one of the hotspots in Galicia, which normally he would have to go through to get to Santiago, he doesn't know what is going to happen in the next few days, the situation is fluid and constantly changing. I...
  16. Isca-camigo

    Plans for 2021?

    The same here I know there isn't anything definite I can say will happen but making plans is like comforting at the moment, I feel( Brexit not included) that we( UK) will be out of our lockdown before some other overseas Camino dreamers, so June feels realistic to me but maybe not if you are...
  17. Isca-camigo

    Plans for 2021?

    I think I am up to plan D at the moment. Plan A was walk from my home in the UK to Plymouth and boat to Santander and then onto Santiago in June/July that went up in smoke when I realised Brittany ferries weren't taking bookings for foot passengers. Plan B was walk the Invierno in late March...
  18. Isca-camigo

    Not March But Maybe October 2021

    Buen Camino @turkeyneck, i hope your wishes come reality next year.
  19. Isca-camigo

    Camino de la Corona - Where am I?

    The GR symbol on one of the trees could be a indicator, is it one of the entries or exits to Roncesvalles before they started putting concrete slabs down to ' help' the pilgrims, which is before my time?
  20. Isca-camigo

    Confessions during the Holy year 2021

    I literally arrived as midday mass was starting on the last Saturday in November in 2010, it think it was a 'puente weekend' so Santiago was packed as was the cathedral, we had to stand with the many other hundreds of people to the side and the back. The girl I was with at the end of the mass...

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