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  1. Texas Walker

    Any recommendations for where to stay in Hornillos and El Burgo Ranero

    It's been quite a while since we stayed in El Burgo Ranero (2014) but at that time there were I think 4 albergues in the town. We ambled in about 1530 (3:30 PM) and they were all full. We got a room above one of the bars, and it's one of the special memories, waking up every hour during the...
  2. Texas Walker

    Possibly cancelling my camino

    When it's meant to be, obstacles will work themselves out. You have felt the call, and when the time is right you and your sweetie will go. The first, and continuing, lesson of the Camino is that we are not in control. We have to accept that the timing of things, and sometimes the places we...
  3. Texas Walker

    Requirement for Compostela certificate

    The last 100km is very well supplied with places to stay. (The "stages" are just convenient divisions of the distance by various guidebook and online info site makers.) Staying in places other than the most famous sleeping towns is often very pleasant.
  4. Texas Walker

    Picking grapes from vineyards along the way

    Even with wild berries, it's good to avoid the height that is convenient for canines to aim at. ;)
  5. Texas Walker

    Hospitalero threatened and punched - O Pino

    The friend looked completely mortified.
  6. Texas Walker

    I am all sorted for beds until I get to Pamplona, is that enough planning?

    Or just change your stop points. Not being hamstrung by reservations, or catching up to a pack that was sent ahead, can be very liberating. If you get to the "stage town" and it's too early to stop, you don't have to. If you find your day has gone slower than expected, you don't have to kill...
  7. Texas Walker

    Rethink HOW and WHEN you walk the Francés - strategies for walking during busy times

    User tip for the readers who don't already know, Easter is not on the same weekend each year. It moves according to a lunar calendar calculation (which I don't pretend to understand) so it pays to look up "Easter" with the desired year on the search engine of your choice on the internet, or...
  8. Texas Walker

    Camino Congestion - Change routes?

    Ah, one more little thought: soccer tournaments. These can tie up lodging in places, and the family soccer parties can take up the entirety of restaurants. (Not to mention Estella.) OTOH, when DH had a broken leg (we didn't know it) and I was frantically searching Deba for an open farmacia to...
  9. Texas Walker

    Camino Congestion - Change routes?

    I noticed a difference on the Norte, too. Fewer churches open for a pilgrim passing by to visit. A couple of towns where I didn't feel as welcomed as on the Norte, or on the Portugues, or on the Salvador and Primitivo for that matter. I put it down to a lot of tourism for (centuries?) a long...
  10. Texas Walker

    LIVE from the Camino Walking the Meseta now. Advice welcome

    Snickel drip not snickering. It's an Illinois "Scandinavian " spread.
  11. Texas Walker

    LIVE from the Camino Walking the Meseta now. Advice welcome

    And don't forget to donate as your dinner contribution something more substantial than a four ounce packet of cookies. Just saying. They make the dinner from the day's donations. We contributed a batch of snickering (herring cream cheese spread) and crackers, sadly they were at the far end of...
  12. Texas Walker

    What time to depart SJPDP in order to reach Roncesvalles by 4pm

    Back when the dinosaurs walked, we ate at 0630 where we stayed and headed out. Even though we were hopelessly outclassed by the steep slopes before Orisson, and sat down to rest multiple times, we hauled into the monastery at Roncesvalles about 4 pm. BC
  13. Texas Walker

    Porta Potties between towns

    Also be careful with briars...
  14. Texas Walker

    Porta Potties between towns

    Campers' toilet paper rolls. They come in a plastic clamshell, they have no center tube, and they serve in airports, bars, restaurants, etc. etc. etc. I will also throw in a small word for the poo bags that many folks have in their household supplies to pick up after their pets. BC
  15. Texas Walker

    How steep is the climb to Alto de Perdon.

    I remember that, but for us it was 2014. Things may have changed since then...The way up the hill was not as steeply miserable as the way up to Orrison was. It was one-butt-wide, though, and a little frozen rain did appear. (Late May.) At the top, I have a treasured photo of DH posing with the...
  16. Texas Walker

    Valcarlos route : some practical questions, please

    While we have never gone with a tour agency on the Camino, we did go with our parish to Israel in 2019, an all-included plan, and I missed having opportunities to go to little eat joints and try the local stuff. (Even though the midday meal was always the local stuff as a group.) Walking the...
  17. Texas Walker

    LIVE from the Camino Winter Walking: My Journey Along the Camino Francés

    I didn't know that data-only was even an option. We've been getting phone service SIM and foregoing data, assuming that we'd always be where there was wifi when we needed data. That assumption, though, doesn't apply to the Compostela line in Santiago. Nor to various restaurants that don't bother...
  18. Texas Walker

    Seeking full stage itinerary from SJPP to Finisterre

    Welcome to the Forum. Be aware that it is not a travel agency. I recommend that you purchase a couple of guide books and look over Gronze.com. (Giggle Translate can help if you don't have Spanish.) The only issue with booking ahead is that it locks you into a schedule, removing the possibility...
  19. Texas Walker

    2023 festivals

    Hello, fellow peregrina! It's important to let go of the "me" and the idea that the important thing about the Camino--or the villages--is what I get to see or do. The Camino is a pilgrimage, not a mere sightseeing walk...though many enjoy it for that aspect. I have only been near a local festa...
  20. Texas Walker

    Be prepared... pilgrim rescue

    I read the thread and remembered our first walk in 2014 and thought "there but for the grace of God go I." One thing many of us don't realize we need to take into account is the latitude differences as well as the altitude differences. If you live at the latitude of Miami, you have to make an...

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