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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    As the OP, I feel I have to respond here. With the benefit of hindsight, as I have now finished my “deluxe walking tour”, I can see why I would not have anything in common with people of your superior attitude! Rebekah commenting below implies you will only find out how “flexible, outgoing, and...
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    UPDATE to my original post: we finished! I got no blisters, no bites, and we didn’t kill each other. I learned alot: this was my FIRST Camino, which I must remind you experienced, grizzled diehards. I learned MYSELF what I need & what not to carry. I learned what the countryside is like, how I...
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    Thank you for your kind words. I had some great days: in Melide I booked A Lua Do Camiño as recommended (here) for the pool and it was amazing! & coincided with the hottest day so far, 33C. We had scheduled some rest days which I knew we needed (for my sister to sleep & for me to do a different...
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    In Casa do Cabo in Arzua atm, is a guy snoring so loud the building is shaking, & this is through 2 walls! My earplugs can’t win against that. 3 giggly girls pounded up the stairs & I actually welcomed it as surely he couldn’t sleep through that, but yup, still going. So a private room is no...
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    Sounds perfect! Can you hook me up with them?😁
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    I watched 3 movies & everyone was meeting, chatting, walking & eating together. How silly to believe Hollywood! Bad me! Lesson learned. Honestly though, I did speak with five ladies about my age, all of them are quite sociable & none mentioned that I could be walking by myself. With all the...
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    I have done tours with G adventures, Explore, & Intrepid, but I will look up Ramblers, thank you🙏🏻
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    Yes, this company/style was recommended by many people when I said we couldn’t walk 20 km per day, please see my posts below for the reasons why. Many people I spoke to still suggested we could do the Camino 100k at a time. Are you saying this is not allowed?
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    I am very thankful for my legs that let me walk. Went to 2 masses to pray for others who can’t.
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    Y I hear you re individual time & we did that today. We will also had no meals yesterday & did go out & had a great time in fab bar, but it really is the fact that I am not alone I feel I’m not making the effort I usually would to meet people. (I went out the first night to go dancing, leaving...
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    Hi, I guess it’s like any travel. You can do your research Hi, You can do your research and ask as many questions as possible, but in the end your experience may be different from everybody else’s. For example, I planned for a couple of years to do the “5 Stans”. I watched a lot of videos &...
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    Hi, I totally get that. One reason this is more of a vacation rather than a pilgrimage for both of us is that my sister, as a nurse, worked nonstop since the beginning of Covid and this was her first vacation in three years. I as a lawyer also worked double time, 70 hours a week for several...
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    Well, we tried today. I don’t need much sleep, but last night there was the sardine festival in Palas De Rey & they had a rock band playing until 4 AM! I couldn’t sleep through that, thought I might get two more hours, but there were also a bunch of high school students who left about 6 AM, then...
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    They must be early risers. This walk counts as my vacation, so I can’t get up early on vacation or it’s like work, me entiendes?😁
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    I see now. Yes on last 100k, but few people as we start late. I can’t see not booking ahead because I cannot imagine not knowing where I was sleeping that night, it’s just not me. And I brought too much stuff & transporting it.
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    Ah, pre-booked because I always travel that way. My daughter would panic if she didn’t have my plans in advance. I am super slow & didn’t want to risk not getting a bed in June.
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    Yes & yes. I gather it’s because we start walking so late (after 10), we like to chill with coffee, read paper, because at home we have to be up early with demanding jobs & family.
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    Near Ventas de Narón
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    Yes, exactly! In a non-tour booking atm in Palas de Rey. Looking forward to hitting a bar tonight, actually putting on some makeup & different shoes, & must be out before 9, no meals included so we’ll see!
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    LIVE from the Camino FRANCÉS: Flies, spiders, isolation & roommates: not what I expected!

    Thanks! I am a city girl & doing the Camino to see country town so I shouldn’t complain about quiet & flies! So different from my life back home.

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