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  1. Sue M

    Oldest person to complete the Camino Frances ????

    At 72 I find that very encouraging!
  2. Sue M

    Bad Albergues

    Positively my worst night on the Camino was in a rather posh hotel where, after turning iut the light, I had the borrible experience of feeling the emerging bedbugs begin to crawl over me. Couldn't find anyone to tell, so spent the night on the cold, tiled corridor floor outside my room. I am...
  3. Sue M

    A Few Hours in Santiago

    What a wonderful way to celebrate your birthday! I've walked 450 miles of the Camino in bits. I'm now 71 and joining a group walking part of the Portuguese route. We'll be driven into Santiago and dropped for a few hours, but staying in a hotel in Pontevedra. Don't know how long I'll have in...
  4. Sue M

    A Few Hours in Santiago

    I have spent time in Santiago 4 times after walking parts of the Camino, and enjoyed wandering about exploring. This year I will be there for a few hours on Sunday April 30th. What should I do? And what time is the main Sunday Mass?
  5. Sue M

    Burgos - Leon

    I have driven across it and walked the rest. I would still like to walk from Burgos to Leon but I wouldn't consider doing it in the nottest part of the year because there is very little shade,
  6. Sue M

    News (2016) regarding Santa María de Eunate

    Great news! Best wishes in this venture!
  7. Sue M

    Pokemon stops on the Camino?

    I bet there are. I expect Santiago Cathedral has got one.
  8. Sue M

    Feeling a little judged from other commenters so...

    I've walked 450 miles of it, but I've done the last 100k twice in groups with two different companies from England, Ramblers Holidays and HF Holidays. HF was more expensive but the food was much better! I have stayed in municipal albergues and in hotels. It was in a rather posh hotel that I met...
  9. Sue M

    What I've Learned So Far

    The man who lives under the stairs inthe albergue at Santo Domingo (!) and tends feet told me there are two kinds of blisters, the sort you get through friction and the sort you get by having sweaty feet. By the time I reached him my feet, in two pairs of socks and walking boots, were rotting. I...
  10. Sue M

    LIVE from the Camino Help!!

    When you start walking again it may be a good idea to use two walking poles. One was no good for me and I had pain with sciatica but after using two it virtually solved the problem.
  11. Sue M

    LIVE from the Camino 1st week on Camino Francis May 2016

    I'm really envious! If you have blister problems look out for the man under the stairs in the hostel at Santo Domingo - he sorted my feet. After that I found it best to walk in sandals. If it were too easy you wouldn't get the satisfaction of having done it! I hope you find good friends along...
  12. Sue M

    Alternative to high bridge to enter Portomarin?

    I've walked over the bridge twice and, although I don't like heights, I didn't find it the slightest bit scary. However, I did collapse with heat exhaustion after climbing the steep steps at the end on one hot September day. Friends laid me down and poured water over me from the conveniently...
  13. Sue M

    Martin Sheen needs a GPS!

    Watched 'The Way', did the walk, want to go back!
  14. Sue M

    Place for non-Catholics Holy Communion

    I am an Anglican but I took communion at Catholic Masses whenever I came across them on the camino, i cluding several times in Santiago Cathedral (even though they now say Catholics only). I don't believe God cares which church you belong to and the service is almost the same. I am a Christian...
  15. Sue M

    Preferred/Nicest Stretches of Camino Frances?

    The eucalyptus woods, nearing Santiago. The worst bit was the flight of steps leading up to Portomarin, mainly because I collapsed at the top due to heat exhaustion!
  16. Sue M

    Can anyone join us on July 8, 2016 departure from St. Jean-Pied-de-Port?

    Just a thiught - I never got bedbugs in cheap hostels, but I did have a bedbug-infested night in a relatively expensive hotel!
  17. Sue M

    Camino Companions 2016?

    I would like to walk the Camino again in 2016, but I don't want to do it alone. Is there anyone or any group out there planning to travel together to and from England who would be prepared to share the experience with a reasonably active and lively 70 year old woman?
  18. Sue M

    Communion on Camino: Comments and an Observation

    We organised a pilgrimage to Santiago in June and took an Anglican Bishop with us. He was allowed to celebrate Communion in Roncesvalles Abbey, the church at O'Cebreiro, San Isodoro in Leon and in a side chapel in Santiago Cathedral. Previously when walking by myself I have gone to Mass in...
  19. Sue M

    LIVE from the Camino Day 1- feeling really rattled/unsafe- help?

    Keep safe and keep going!
  20. Sue M

    Tosantos

    On 17th October 2012 I stayed for the night at the Albergue Parroquial de Tosantos, a Franciscan house where we were given a great welcome. Our group of five English pilgrims helped to prepare the evening meal and I sang some Taize chants with hospitalier Jose Luiz before, having shared our meal...

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