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  1. skilsaw

    Your Favourite Photos

    Long time since I looked at Camino Pictures on the web. The vegetation and the sky seem particularly brilliant in the new slideshows. Is that PhotoShop being used to enhance photos, or am I just feeling a particular longing to return.
  2. skilsaw

    Winter Camino

    You are in for a challenge. Go for it. Christmas and New Years will be like no other for you. Take a good sleeping bag! I bet the albergues are cold. I find getting the balance of layers of clothing right for working in the winter a challenge. Too many layers and I become wet with sweat...
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    My moment at the Cruz de Ferro- a memorial

    Not everyone has such a touching story but yours is what it is all about. Best wishes, David, Victoria, Canada.
  4. skilsaw

    What makes you come back to the Camino?

    It's part of the beauty of the fellowship of the Camino. Share your heart and you will be understood. Thank you Janet, David, Victoria, Canada
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    What makes you come back to the Camino?

    I've walked to Santiago 3 times on the Camino Frances and the Via de la Plata. (2004, 2006, 2010) I thought when my third Camino was finished, I was finished. But today I just watched an amazing slide show of the CF on youtube and am inspired to go again. Previously, watching slide shows on...
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    We Walked it with a 14 Month Old

    Your baby is a real trooper. My wife and I took our year old son to the Canadian Rockies. We were camping with our car, and planned on glorious mountain walks each day. Stephen did not cooperate. After the first day in the backpack, he resisted, fussed and cried everytime we put him in it...
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    Route surface

    Hi Maggie, The Camino Frances from SJPP to Santiago is very well graded and smooth. You will seldom need to watch your feet, every step of the way. There will be muddy bits and sections with loose rock, but these will be short. By way of comparison, I just walked 14 km on a path where we...
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    Post Camino blues

    It took three caminos to satisfy my longing. Now I've switched other Self-Propelled holidays. 2011 - 300 km bike ride on an old railway that has been turned into a trail. 2012 - 115 km canoe trip 2013 - 75 km wilderness hike on west coast of Canada. This one frightens me. I've done it before...
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    First a few questions

    Scruffy, You have the best attitude yet! Your barley malt emergency ration is brilliant! Only to be superseded by the fruit of the vine. I crossed paths a couple times a day with a fine Spaniard gentleman who had a small wineskin which he filled every evening at dinner. A little squirt now...
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    shorts, trousers, capris in August and September

    Snow white! The dress and apron you wore in the 1950's Disney movie with the 7 Dwarfs would do just fine. That, and a pair of satin pumps. Hiking boots just won't go with your dress, Buen Camino, David, Victoria, Canada.
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    What are the best guide books?/out of way places/ October Ca

    October, if it is anything like April when I've walked, will give you the whole 9 yards of weather. Occasional beautiful days when shorts and a T shirt are all you need in the afternoon, but frosty mornings when you need a hat that covers your ears, and gloves. Expect snow, but it won't last...
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    Starting in Burgos - Do I get a stamp?

    M.M. You are a trooper! Buen Camino David, Victoria, Canada.
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    cheap guesthouse in biarritz

    Katharina, Your message is a little unclear. If you are arriving at the airport in Biarritz at 9:30 pm, you will stay overnight in Biarritz or Bayonne and travel to St. Jean Pied du Port the next day. There are lots of inexpensive hotels in Bayonne which is a 10 minute taxi ride from the...
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    So you think it's crowded...

    2004 and 2010 were both "Holy Years of Jubilee" where the St. James Day, July 25, fell on a Sunday. During Holy Year the number of pilgrims goes up. Having patience, tolerance, generosity and a sense of adventure makes these "No room at the inn" situations during Holy Year a lot of fun. The...
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    To obtain a Compostela

    On the Camino Frances, the 100 kms begins in Sarria and ends in Santiago at the Cathedral. Anything before reaching Sarria is inconsequential. The 100 kms must be continuous, consecutive and end at the Cathedral. But Buses and Taxis turn what begins as a pilgrimage into a holiday. You change...
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    It's Different This Year

    Hello Annakappa, My latest experience was walking the VdlP, Seville - Ourense - Santiago, in April and May of 2010. I found the same great experience that I enjoyed on the Camino Frances in 2004. This year I'm taking a friend on a wilderness hike that I first did in 1971, before it became a...
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    How many women 55+ walk from SJPdP to Sant.

    Have no Fear! It is a challenge, but achievable. I walked the Camino Frances to recognize turning 50 in 2004. On the way I met a french woman who was 80 who had walked from home! Start with a commitment to walk the whole way. I walked the whole way in 2004 and was exuberant on arriving. In...
  18. skilsaw

    The sad news of the death of a pilgrim on the Camino.

    Peace to his soul, and to his Family. There must be better ways to die, but at the moment I cannot think of one. This would be a quick, sudden, painless death while enjoying the journey of a lifetime.
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    Did you hear the story about the American Pilgrim....

    I'm glad your friends Camino worked out. I wonder what surgery and hospital stay cost him? I buy travel medical insurance, but when I went to see the doctor in Spain, he said not to worry about fees, but to pray for him in Santiago.
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    Spiritual or religious - simple definition for a simple man?

    Your heading asks one question - Definition of Spiritual and Religious, and your post asks another. As I understand your post, you want to know the force that is pulling you towards Santiago and Finisterre. First, Spiritual and Religious: Religious - An action , experience, or motivation that...

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