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  1. TonyC

    Heads up re: new Verizon phones

    I'm sitting here in the UK reading this thread with complete amazement at what US pilgrims are expecting to pay for their mobile (cell) phone usage whilst on the Camino, or even what they pay at home. I pay £8 ($10) per month for my mobile phone service. This includes unlimited minutes of...
  2. TonyC

    Walking the CF for the Second Time?

    My wife and myself have walked the Frances twice. The first full journey was done in two halves, September 2014 and May 2015. The second walk was to prove that we could walk the full distance in one go, and was successfully completed in September and into October 2018. As we were planning for...
  3. TonyC

    DANGER ! Alternative route into Leon.

    I would imagine that, after any decent rain, the descent from the radio tower area will be the mud equivalent of an Olympic ski jump slope. It was bad enough this autumn when the ground was dry. I would have thought that a more reasonable alternative route could have been found.
  4. TonyC

    100 (or so) iconic images for Camino Francés video .. Any missing?

    How about boots, on feet, totally caked in gooey mud. Nice!
  5. TonyC

    September 2018 who’s going?

    My wife and myself start at St Jean on 27th August (nearly September). We're aiming to walk the full length from St Jean to Santiago. We tried this in autumn 2014 but, but to my wife suffering a foot injury just past Sahagun. We stopped the attempt at Bercianos del Real Camino. BUT we returned...
  6. TonyC

    Wainwrights Coast to Coast UK Compared to Camino Frances

    The Camino will provide - YET AGAIN! How strange that this question popped-up on the forum today. My wife and I, both in our 70s, walked the Camino Frances in two stages, Autumn 2014 and Spring 2015, and also the Camino Portuguese from Lisbon to Santiago in Spring 2016. This year we walked...
  7. TonyC

    this is probably a dumb question, but...

    If you do happen to stray more than a few yards of the proper track you will probably hear lots of shouting from all the other pilgrims around you. Don't worry, it's takes a great deal of skill and ingenuity to get lost. It's just not worth the effort, just stay with the crowd, they'll keep...
  8. TonyC

    Stay in Orrison Refugio or not . . . ?

    I fully agree with Julia-t. Spending your first night at Orrisson is a " must do ". It's not an extremely hard walk to get there from SJPDP but it is by no means trivial either. The distance is short but the road is steep in several places. The clincher though is the social one Julia mentions...
  9. TonyC

    About that roadside walking....

    I may be wrong but I understood that the poor woman was killed crossing the road, not actually walking alongside it. The accident happened at a very confusing crossing on a very busy main road
  10. TonyC

    Bladders or Bottles

    Having tried a bladder system previously and not liking the taste, not to mention the flood in my backpack due to a faulty seal on the pipe-to-bladder connection, I am all in favour of bottles. They are cheap, easily refillable an generally rugged. On our two Camino Frances trips we have...
  11. TonyC

    Best place for a 2 to 3 night stay in Leon

    So do lots of people stay in hotels etc. to celebrate?
  12. TonyC

    Best place for a 2 to 3 night stay in Leon

    Thanks to all the advice we have received we have now booked two nights at the Hostal Guzman. What we found whilst searching was that most of the accommodation that was suggested was already full. This rather surprised us. We realise that the days we needed, (Arrive Friday 1st May and leave...
  13. TonyC

    Best place for a 2 to 3 night stay in Leon

    Many thanks to everyone who have provided us with a very interesting selection of places. There seems to be a good range of styles and prices and they all look very interesting. We're fortunate in having spent a little time previously on Leon and can recollect where a few of the suggested...
  14. TonyC

    Best place for a 2 to 3 night stay in Leon

    At the end of April we plan to re-start our Camino , from where we left off last year, namely Bercianos del Real Camino. A few days later we expect to reach Leon where we want to spend 2-3 days exploring. As we'll be staying more than one night we can't stay in a municipal or religious...
  15. TonyC

    Help. Travel from UK

    We're flying from Manchester to Bilbao in late April to do the second half of the Camino Frances. We managed to get a very low price from Easyjet by booking early. It's worth a look, and I think that it is reasonably easy to get from Bilbao to SJPDP, we've not done that though so others may be...
  16. TonyC

    Leaving/Taking books along the way

    Hi everyone. Just to update you with the actual result of my original question. We were wondering if it was possible to swap books whilst doing the Camino. Well we now know as we spent a large part of September walking from St Jean Pierre de Port to Sahagun, where (unfortunately) we had to stop...
  17. TonyC

    Smartphones, ugh!

    Hi and thanks for the "Heads-Up". I had searched on the Play Store under "Wise Pilgrim" and saw nothing. Doing a re-search it did show, but under the heading "Camino Frances" with the small sub-title "Wise Pilgrim". It's possible that was how it was shown before but I didn't spot the small...
  18. TonyC

    Smartphones, ugh!

    The Wise Pilgrim app appears to be only available for the iPhone (http://wisepilgrim.com/) Maybe they will see sense somewhere along the line and rewrite it for the much more popular Android device community. :p
  19. TonyC

    Smartphones, ugh!

    I forgot to add that I would also be taking a backup battery pack as welln which can recharge any of my Android devices " on the way" if necessary. Personally I won't use Apple products, if I have the choice, as I find their business model of charging excessively for their (good but not...
  20. TonyC

    Smartphones, ugh!

    Of course Smartphones are self-regulating to a large degree in that any significant use soon exhausts the battery. This is particularly so when out in the open countryside when the phone needs to use higher power than normal to reach distant transmission aerials. Similarly using the built-in...

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