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    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    @Flog, you write that 'walking a pilgrimage however long and arduous, doesn't automatically entitle us to charity.' Perhaps it would have been better to preface this statement with 'in my opinion' as others on the forum or on the Way may have a different take on this. So, 'in my opinion, if...
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    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    Good morning @JabbaPappa, today marks the winter Solstice & the point at which the days start to lengthen. This always lifts my spirits here in the grey, dreich days of the Scottish winter and I hope that it may do the same for you in Navarra.
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    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    Several pilgrims have reported on the forum this year of having had negative experiences in the places between Los Arcos & Logrono, I am sorry that you are having this experience. Other albergue hospitaleros have respected you and the long pilgrimage you are making. To put a pilgrim out in the...
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    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    Hoping that the extra night in Viana will be under a roof rather than under the stars.
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    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    Hope that your pain will be eased by the long sleep, a day of rest & good food. Thank you @JabbaPapa for taking time to share your heroic, epic journey, especially for those of us who now must reconcile ourselves to being only armchair pilgrims but who travel with you vicariously, of course...
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    LIVE from the Camino First few days

    Do forum members really find it acceptable to have the OP's statement met with the response 'that's crap'? I certainly don't and it doesn't seem to fit with my experience of people walking the Camino - whether for religious or other reasons. In my view such retorts are just rude and...
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    University rooms in Burgos

    Apologies moderators if this is under the wrong heading but I wanted to alert members to the availability of summer accommodation in student rooms in Burgos. https://www.universityrooms.com/en-GB/city/burgos/college/rusanagustinburgos The website also offers good accommodation in UK, France...
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    Calzadilla de los Hermanillos interview with shopkeeper

    Thank you everyone for providing all this fascinating information. When I stayed at the albergue in the old school in April 2015 the hospitalero was Juan from the Canary Islands. He went out of his way to make us all so welcome, and, Marylynn, the wood stove was working perfectly. It was one of...
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    Calzadilla de los Hermanillos interview with shopkeeper

    For those of us who have fond memories of the excellent donativo albergue in Calzadilla de los Hermanillos, you might be interested in this piece about the village. It starts at 16.54 in the video and includes an interview featuring the wonderful shopkeeper who manages to stock everything a...
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    'Addiction'- an appropriate word for wanting to walk the Camino again (& again)?

    Thank you for your thoughtful response @Turga and your introduction of the term 'camino-longing'. This is just perfect and what I was hoping for, I am sure that others can be similarly creative in providing alternatives to 'addiction'. On the other hand, I don't think that I am being...
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    'Addiction'- an appropriate word for wanting to walk the Camino again (& again)?

    It is with hesitation that I write on a topic that has been bothering me over many years of forum membership, and that is the equating of the desire to walk the Way again with addiction. I live in a country that, in rural areas, as well as major cities is bedevilled by the social and personal...
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    Exploration day at the end: Estella or Los Arcos?

    Hello @Lhollo, as other forum members have said the church in Los Arcos is beautiful but it is hit and miss as to whether it will be open when you are there, so my preference would be for Estella. Stayed there for two nights last year in September to meet up with a friend. I had passed through...
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    Bilbao to Estella

    Hi @shanawona, This might be garbled as I am tired and it is late, so I do hope you can make some sense of what I have written. In September last year I ended my short section of the Vasco at Vitoria-Gasteiz then took the La Estellesa bus from the bus station (on the outskirts of the city) to...
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    Please Help A Guitarist on the Camino

    Este San Miguel church in Estella might be worth considering. Every year in the first two weeks of September the town is host to a festival of ancient music. Although your friend’s music @Tincatinker, might not fit in that slot, the organisers include a local Camino confraternity who might be...
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    Help Albergue Santa Cruz in Sahagun

    Done. Thank you @IngridF and @Rebekah Scott for alerting us.
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    Anybody want to meet? Puente de Reina

    @Gwaihir after posting my message I checked with Gronze about the months that the Maneru albergue is open & it is Semana Santa to October, so I am hoping it doesn’t close before the end of October. A peregrina friend of mine stayed at an albergue (also cafe/bar) in Lorca which she stayed at...
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    Anybody want to meet? Puente de Reina

    Hi @Gwaihir, can’t make a meeting as I am in Scotland but suggest you go to Maneru where there is a very welcoming albergue. Also an excellent bar there. Wishing you well.
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    Disparaging "The Way"

    @VNwalking I am sure that you are not in a minority regarding your opinion, it's probably that those of us who find something good or relevant in the film, and knowing that it's often criticised for being sentimental etc., are acting a little like a colony of creatures gathering together when...
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    Disparaging "The Way"

    You are right @VNwalking to point out that the film doesn’t appeal to everyone - I slipped into generalising there. The Camino mythology (or mythologies) is an interesting perspective to explore, not least because of the danger of fiction building expectations which reality cannot deliver...
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    Disparaging "The Way"

    Well @VNwalking you have finally woken me from my slumbers in my Scottish cave by poking me with a sharp stick. Yes I do think that it would have been just as successful with an equally talented nobody. Tcheky Karyo - who played the role of Captain Henri - was a noted actor in France, but a...

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