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    Favourite Accommodation Splurge along the Camino

    Yesterday (29 Aug 2023) I advance booked a pilgrim room for two nights, 25,26 October 2023. Rather than trying to book on their or another travel website, I sent a direct email with my request for a reservation and received a prompt positive response booking both nights. The rate - 27 euro/night.
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    Meaning/division of different stages

    We can all draw whatever comparisons that we want to make between the Camino and broader experiences in our lives. In the end doesn't the meaning of various stages, or the Camino in its entirety, rest on whatever the imagination wants it to be or to represent?
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    Cyclists and pedestrians

    What a great reminder. Sometimes it is not the actions of others that need to change ... it's my own attitude!
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    Help Needed from Experienced Pilgrims - Albergues

    Re: **HELP NEEDED FROM EXPERIENCED PILGRIMS-- ALBERGUES** Let's see, 1. There is the albergue run by either a religious or charitable organization, perhaps staffed by volunteers who usually were themselves past pilgrims 2. Another albergue is privately owned and often operated by a local...
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    walking sep 16 - oct 18

    We all know that weather predictions this far in advance are uncertain but with history as a guide I would think this is the absolute best time to walk the Camino. Aside from weather, there are fewer crowds than in summer. There remain longer hours or daylight than later in the year, with...
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    To Finisterre

    In mid June 2012 after walking to Finisterre I stayed two nights at Albergue Fistera (mentioned in Jochen-Schmidtke's attachment above - that's not the same as the Hotel Finisterre mentioned by Miguel). It was clean, quiet, very nice, included a full kitchen at a cost of 12 Euro per night (Oddly...
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    Help Needed from Experienced Pilgrims - Albergues

    Re: **HELP NEEDED FROM EXPERIENCED PILGRIMS-- ALBERGUES** There are two different alburgues in Najera being referred to here. The "muni" is the municipal albergue. I'd agree that it is one of the worst on the Camino. Stuffy, overcrowded, one look inside made me turn away. I'm no albergue...
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    Glass half empty or half full?

    Re: Glass half empty or half full? As unfortunate, indeed perhaps dire as those things are, they actually sound like a very loud call to the Camino. Going on Camino may not change the circumstances of the health situation of your husband or brother (then again it just might, as I happen to...
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    Did anyone lose a panasonic memory card?

    This was recently posted on the forum: miscellaneous-about-santiago/topic18858.html Not sure that it sounds like the same one because this person may have lost their card in Santiago.
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    Extra preparations?

    Somewhere I've seen statistics on Camino deaths. Yes they occur, but for as much attention as they may get, the "lost in a fog" type deaths are really uncommon. Most are of heart ailments and natural causes that very likely would have occurred regardless of whether the people were on Camino or...
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    Take what's important to you.

    Not one to pay much attention to arbitrary and artificially established weight limits, my rule was simple ... I had a backpack with a 63 liter capacity so packed it to my heart's content until it was full. Didn't do any sort of practice walk with the loaded pack in advance, not even around the...
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    I did it, I did it....I booked my flights.

    If y'all get this excited over merely booking the plane tickets can't imagine how great your euphoria once you actually set out on the Camino. No need to elevate your expectations but you are going to have the time of your lives. Buen Camino!
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    Now I lay me down to sleep...

    We may be of different opinion. Mine is that to even think about reserving overnight accomodations one month in advance of ever arriving at the start of the Camino is a terrible idea. Yes perhaps for the first night or two it may be prudent to make a reservation (I wouldn't even do that...
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    Anyone else get shot down?

    Re: Anyone else get shot down? Big difference between being away from a family as a work requirement that provides support for the family vs. being away to walk the Camino to "find out who I am"
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    Anyone else get shot down?

    Re: Anyone else get shot down? Choweth with all due respect: wife, mother, daughter. What blessings they all are! Perhaps a period of absence from all of that would help you to embrace what you already have. Who knows. Sorry but I can't get over a mother (or father) who would leave young...
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    Anyone else get shot down?

    Re: Anyone else get shot down? Gotta say Choweth, that in your initial posts you didn't quite explain the entire circumstances. The family that you mentioned by specifics was a step mother. When you throw a husband and dependant children into the mix that changes the situation considerably...
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    Anyone else get shot down?

    Re: Anyone else get shot down? And they all laughed at Christopher Columbus, when he said the world was round...
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    Anyone else get shot down?

    Re: Anyone else get shot down? Success means different things to different people. Mysticl there is little doubt that you will be successful, regardless of anyone else's thoughts. In fact you are well on the way already. What a great attitude you have. You are such an inspiration to all...
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    Can vertigo be an issue?

    The advance fear seems to always be a whole lot worse than the reality.
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    Can vertigo be an issue?

    Ha, ha. This is exactly what I did. In doing so thought of the irony of a reality that I may get hit by a car instead of some perceived risk of something that would never happen, falling over the bridge's edge. Don't smoke myself but sure could have used a cigarette once getting across that...

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