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  1. J

    Beginning the end of March

    Train travel is very easy in Madrid but one must be very careful as there are expert pickpockets in the train and on the station. As you get out especially at Plaza Sol beware of any one dropping coins at your feet, the natural instinct is to bend down to pick them up and this exposes the rear...
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    LIVE from the Camino Nearly There

    Melide Albergue is awful. Reported in the forum by Bildom 1963 in October 2007. Reported by Sil in September 2007. the municipal albergue in Melide. It is the first really grotty albergue that we have stayed in. It is filthy and smelly and the ablutions are thick with black algae and mould...
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    Jewels of the Camino

    sillydoll wrote:Some people seemed to disapprove............Thank you Brendon for honestly expressing the feeling of the many pragmatic pilgrims who are prepared to use the many facilities on the Camino but are not prepared to suffer the indignity of finding no room at the inn after a hard day's...
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    Crowds?

    Sillydoll, Thank you for anchoring this vigorous, lively, and most informative forum on the Camino - we are all waiting with bated breath on the future postings of such a dedicated bunch of knowledgeable and unselfish pilgrims who are on or will be on the road soon. I am sure we will all be...
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    August Babies (surely it's about time?!)

    Lost baggage ... this can be traumatic as we lost our walking sticks and other small things not allowed as handcarry on a flight from Rome to Santander. These sticks were never found but we carried the essentials with us on board as hand baggage. It delayed us two days but we had time to...
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    Accomodation on the Le Puy route

    Windeatt, Excellent review and information of where you stayed, gives bed configuration, shower situation, toilet, meals, comments on persons running the place. Good balance of albergues, hostals and hotels. Walking distances and degree of difficulty, rest days included. One of the best...
  7. J

    Crowds?

    What is the criteria for a pilgrimage to be a pilgrimage
  8. J

    Prices for albergues

    Sillydoll, Thank you for pasting the postings from another forum of the experience of others who have done the Camino without using the albergues and its limitations. It may not please the purist pilgrims but there are many others who dread the scramble for beds in crowded noisy surroundings...
  9. J

    telling the time...

    Being over 67 years old we carried walking aid such as walking sticks, mobile phone with alarm facilities, watch, USB flash memory, Sanyo Xacti Video, and other contraptions not available in St James's days. We had no qualms in using these modern aids although we are luddites. I note the...
  10. J

    Photo diary

    Thanks Paul for sharing the photos. Appreciated your time and trouble to put in the cryptic and descriptive titles on every photo and the dates. Would love to see more photos of the albergues you stayed in, and meals eaten in and on the road.
  11. J

    "En el Camino" hostel, Boadilla

    En el Camino" hostel, Boadilla Bob, Your positive reviews on the places you stayed has assuaged some of the misgivings of where to stay, keep this up as some of the negative comments are dreadful to hear. Joe from NZ
  12. J

    New Hotel in Burgos

    We stayed in the Meson El Cid directly in front of the Cathedral. We had a 50% discount when we booked on http://www.booking.com
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    Alternative accomadation on the Camino Frances

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