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  1. Nick B

    The Camino is calling me…early planning stage questions

    Saw a recent interview of Emilio Estevez recently where he stated "The Way had motivated thousands of people to get out of their comfort zone and walk the Camino". He's correct of course and you can add yourself to the list, you'll enjoy it and the Camino does change people's lives and I assume...
  2. Nick B

    Way too overwhelming to book beds/rooms (mid july - mid August, frances)

    Book your first two nights then wing it, rather easy for a single person to get a bed each night during the Spanish summer. "Embrace the detours" as they say.
  3. Nick B

    Best Unique and Comfortable Albergues on the Camino Francés with Communal Experiences

    Albergue de peregrino de la santa cruz - Sahagun Gaucelmo Hostel - Rabanal Municipal Albergue San Rogue - Molinaseca The three I enjoyed the most predominantly due to the hospitality and ambience, had no issues with any of the accommodation on the CF as was only ever looking for a bed and...
  4. Nick B

    Camino #4 - From zero to hero (everything I learned so far and how you can walk 40+km as well)

    Spring would get you motivated...
  5. Nick B

    Camino #4 - From zero to hero (everything I learned so far and how you can walk 40+km as well)

    Very detailed information, amazing effort. If I had to walk 4km's listening to Ed Sheeran I'd jump off the nearest bridge and into the river by the 3rd km...Absolute torture, worse than blisters.
  6. Nick B

    Don't grow up: It's a trap.

    Most importantly forgetting about TV......
  7. Nick B

    Don't grow up: It's a trap.

    Not sure I've heard about a priest wanting a larger parish vehicle to improve his performance but pretty sure Thoreau wrote about ''his greatest skill being to want but little.''
  8. Nick B

    Don't grow up: It's a trap.

    Plenty of unhappy, lonely supposedly wealthy people even with their own teeth, psychologists/psychiatrists generally don't earn their high salaries providing therapy to homeless people. Money gives you options, how you prioritize those options the key to living. On the Camino you don't need...
  9. Nick B

    Don't grow up: It's a trap.

    "What does a man need – really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in – and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That’s all – in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we...
  10. Nick B

    Disparaging "The Way"

    It's a movie that doesn't have extreme violence, sex scenes, disturbing content, continual bad language, moronic special effects, killing every five minutes, poor attempts at idiotic humour, big explosions, repeat of a movie made twenty years ago and an evil guy or a hero. The Way is so not...
  11. Nick B

    Camino Snobs

    Can feel a Monty Python skit coming on now......
  12. Nick B

    Camino Snobs

    ""Care about people’s approval, and you will always be their prisoner" LaoTzu I have more important things to care about on the Camino, where I will rest for the night, seafood or chicken for dinner, how to avoid the person tonight with the body odour that slept in my room last night and...
  13. Nick B

    Is Camino Frances a Rat Race in April/May?

    I started May 13, 2018, booked Roncesvalles and winged everything else. Stopped just short(5kms) of Pamplona due to tiredness, nice Albergue where myself and a couple of English girls had the place to ourselves. Had to walk up the hill at Puente de Reina for a bed but after that no real issues...
  14. Nick B

    Is Camino Frances a Rat Race in April/May?

    If you're walking solo you shouldn't have an issue, if you do just keep searching.
  15. Nick B

    Too old?

    Jackie Joyner-Kersee said it by memory..
  16. Nick B

    Too old?

    ""Age is no barrier. It's just a limitation you put on your mind""
  17. Nick B

    Any wild life safety concerns on the French Way??

    Heard the sounds of cuckoo birds on the Frances through the forest and I'm sure the sounds of wild boar in some of the Albergues while I tried to I sleep...…..
  18. Nick B

    Help Albergue Santa Cruz in Sahagun

    See you on the Way down the path a little.
  19. Nick B

    Help Albergue Santa Cruz in Sahagun

    Checked my credential and stayed Santa Cruz Sahagun May 29 2018, the priests booking me in whose names escape were quite helpful and the accommodation and serenity were much improved from the previous night at Ledigos. The mass in the evening was moving and meal afterwards was very special...
  20. Nick B

    American pilgrim dies while walking Camino

    Hope when my time comes I go to sleep and don't wake up, hard on his wife but such a peaceful way to exit. Go easy on your final journey Pilgrim.

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