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    Best route for French Camino

    After completing the 2nd half of Portuguese, Porto to Santiago two years ago, I flew to Geneva to rendezvous with one of my adult sons interested in the Camino culture. We walked four days west toward Le Puy with the fourth night in Charavines, France. It was a great introduction with rolling...
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    The time slows down and stretches on the Camino?

    After completing the first half of the Portuguese Camino, Lisbon to Porto, my three week trek was reduced to three hours on the train ride back for my flight home. The routes shared many of the same views but at different speeds and exposures. It’s like a connecting flight at a new airport when...
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    The camino is boring landscapes, paved roads, traffic…

    The Camino is a life expanding experience if you are open to it. Between my career as a military and commercial pilot, I’ve stayed overnight multiple times or for a few days in dozens of international locations. Being at the Great Wall or the Taj Mahal or the South Pole is not full immersion...
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    Best app for iphone

    Both Google Maps and MAPS.ME permit you to download a map that builds a route between two points providing the route, distance, profile, and verticality of the segment. It doesn’t guarantee strict adherence to the marked path, but it will parallel and share portions the the formal path. I have a...
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    Hiking poles

    Three full and two partial Caminos into the program, here is my opinion and experience: (1) The rubber tips will eventually wear out, so save their physical integrity with some duct tape. (2) The poles with shock absorbing tips are the best, easier on the repeated impact with the ground on your...
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    what if you cannot reserve/do not find a bed

    Last year after crossing into Spain from Portugal, the Camino traffic began to pick up. The closer you get to Santiago when paths merge, you will notice the change. After five or six weeks hiking, you will also find the minimalist pilgrims who just flew in for the last 100 kms, often standing in...
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    Futility of Over planning

    Practicing for the Camino too much is like practicing for a car accident. It’s just walking and with a few exceptions, a rather pleasant way to spend your day. Inexperience - the Key to Flexibility.
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    Using maps dot me for El Norte

    One of my Camino partners asked how do we find our way “back to” Camino while on El Norte five years ago. I pointed out to him that the ocean is to the north and the mountains are to the south. It’s hard to get “lost”. The Camino mean “The Way”. On declining to back track to find a Camino sign...
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    Norte or Portuguese + new painting

    I’ve completed both - San Sebastián to Santiago in six weeks and Lisbon to Porto to Santiago in six weeks. El Norte may be like the first car you buy, the most memorable for only that reason. El Norte may be more physically challenging but not bad for a 66 years old with bad knees from...
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    Best App for the Camino?? What is you favorite?

    Both Google maps and MAPS.ME will compute a track, distance and elevation along the Camino when you a starting and ending point for a day. You can download the maps ahead of time so you won’t require an internet signal out in the “wilderness”. If somehow you miss a Camino marker (you will) it...
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    average daily distance

    On my first Camino, we averaged 25 km per day on El Norte, averaged 21 km per day Porto to Santiago last month, and more than 32 km per day with my son for four days heading west out of Geneva. It was his first exposure and he’s thirty years younger. There are what I refer to as Venial Sin...
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    First Camino help please: should we depend on Albergues or book nightly arrangements with a company?

    Welcome aboard. I’m 69 years old and completed 6-week El Norte with friends, 4-week Lisbon to Porto solo, Cape to Cape trek on Australian West Coast, and doing the Geneva to LePuy in four weeks with one son. Bookings was great as was BnB. MAPS.ME is great for downloading your route maps in case...

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