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  1. J

    Is Seven too Young for Child on a "Short" Camino...from Sarr

    I wonder when is a child too yoing to walk The Camino? t appears I shall be headed to Madrid next month, accompanying my daughter and three grandsons, visiting family in Spain. I have just had the bright idea of walking from Sarria to Santiago with my oldest grandson, just seven years old. I...
  2. J

    SNORING!! I am the Champion!

    Instead of earplugs for non-snorers, perhaps a truly compassionate snorer might try using these: http://www.breatheright.com/ I have been told I am a snorer (although I have never heard it) but am considering giving them a try
  3. J

    Hospitalero(a) - How Does One Become One so as to Volunteer?

    I asked the question on another thread here but decided that perhaps others might wish an answer to the question as well. I am surprised the answer is not already here somewhere but I have searched but to no avail. So, just how might I become a hospitalero and be able to volunteer for doing so...
  4. J

    Judge the time for the plane ticket home?

    Don't forget that it's not a race but a journey. where the journey is the destination. For my part I'd take it slowly, saunter along and enjoy it, as though it were a fine Petrus wine, sipping and savoring it without regard for either time or haste. I took 40 days to do it from SJPdP to...
  5. J

    October journey

    I walked in October and half of November and found it to be a great time to walk. The massive throngs will have gone and there will be more than enough fellow pilgrims to make the 'Way' extremely interesting. I found most albergues still open and there was always room in them, even though some...
  6. J

    Bus some of the route?

    I find your apparent anger about people who don't carry their packs a little mystifying. Maybe you travelled in high summer when beds were more at a premium, but most nights in June there were ample beds for all where I stayed. In Spain the people I knew who chose not to carry their packs the...
  7. J

    WARNING: Camino fever...

    Annette: If you are really, really lucky, that delightful fever will be terminal...and you will have it to the very end! :mrgreen: Some years ago I discovered that an enjoyable part of any upcoming hike can be the advance planning and preparation for it. To that end, I began to weigh all my...
  8. J

    Camino in January/February...???

    Perhaps the best time to go is.... When we can!
  9. J

    how the weather in

    huge difference! I'll second the post above. There is a HUGE difference between 18 and 22 pounds. Actually, 18 is likely too much for you, too!. You will not need the tent on the Camino Frances.
  10. J

    Now the crowds begin

    1000 plus year debate? At first blush, as one who has walked along the entire Way, I would have to agree. But, I wonder just how long this debate has really been going on? Is it a debate that has stood the test of time and remains with us since the ninth century? Have the walkers always been...
  11. J

    Now the crowds begin

    Crowds I cannot imagine struggling against and amongst that crowded chaos. It was so much quieter and nicer in the late fall...but wetter perhaps...however, a small price to pay for the solitude
  12. J

    Parador hotels - which one to stay in?

    Parador How about staying in the one beside the cathedral in Santiago. It was actually an albergue for pilgrims long, long ago. Did you know that the first ten pilgrims (I believe) who show up after the journey are treated to a free meal at this Parador? I did and made sure that I had a free...
  13. J

    New camino tool

    Trowel/car hole? I did not find a use for it on the Camino as villages and public rest rooms were somewhat prevalent. Plus one spends each night in a minimum of an albergue with usually more than adequatet oilet facilities. On the seldom (perhaps?) need for it in the "bush" I'd opt for...
  14. J

    Photo diary

    Beautiful beautiful photo presentation. Thanks for sharing it.
  15. J

    albergue in Ocebreiro

    The albergue where I stayed in O'Cebreiro in Nov 2005 was large, heated, clean, quite modern. As I recall it was slightly beyond the village and perhaps slightly higher than it. Am I to understand that it was demolished for a newer one or was it perhaps just renovated? As I vaguely recall, I...
  16. J

    tent?

    On the Camino Frances the villages having available albergues are never beyond casual walking distance so there is almost no need to burden yourself with a tent's weight. I'd have to put a tent's importance even behind that of a sleeping mat and category both as useless weight you likely will...
  17. J

    Auberge at Orisson

    Orisson & Reservations I did not know that reservations were required when I began my Camino in SJPdP about the 7th or 8th October 2005. If you are of a mind to stay there you should make them and not trust to fate as I once did! When I obtained my credential about mid day or early...
  18. J

    Best Time to Go

    The best time to go has to be...whenever you can... Just don't wait forever. I have only seen the Camino in the fall and enjoyed it immensely but I suspect each season has its own particular "encantos".

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