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  1. Jo Jo

    Too Much Time!

    There is absolutely enough time to walk to the coast. Thur-- Sat walking will get you into either F or M, take a look around, then grab a bus back to SdC that same day. I've done that twice. I always prefer walking in the country to hanging around a city. Just my thing. HYOH. Buen Camino...
  2. Jo Jo

    Suggestions for 8-10 day segment on Portuguese Camino (May 2023)?

    Here would be my suggestion: Start walking in Porto (because better services, more pilgrims from there). See where you end up. The Camino tends to change people. That's why we walk it. Just walk and see where it takes you.
  3. Jo Jo

    Pack rain pants for June Senda Litoral/Coastal route?

    Rain pants are largely for warmth, not dry (true with rain jackets as well), due to the sweat thing as already mentioned. One option I'll probably use on CP Costal this year is a rain skirt. Sort of a lower poncho half for those of us too tall for a poncho to cover. Lighter, airier (read less...
  4. Jo Jo

    First Camino, please help!

    Stratophile types faster and his answers are generally right, except he must have better luck finding public restrooms than I do (I remember two public restrooms the entire CF, and none on the CP--I almost want to buy his guide just to find them). Anyway, These were mine 1. Yes, they are...
  5. Jo Jo

    Spiritual variant question

    I found the municipal alburgue in Armenteria to be quite nice. Fairly new construction. Clean. The hospitaleras were most helpful (I had lost my wife). Plus, that's were your Camino Family for that day and the next is going to be staying. I've stayed in a lot of pretty marginal alburgues in...
  6. Jo Jo

    Portuguese Central- which stage to skip?

    Chris, two thoughts: 1) The Spiritual Variant is two days, just like the Central Route walking. You can easily get dropped of by the boat in Pardon in the morning and walk into SdC that same day (especially for a veteran walker like yourself). You may not need to skip anything. 2) Brierley...
  7. Jo Jo

    From Porto to Santiago running

    If you do not plan on getting a credential and stamps, I do not think the alburgues (at least the municipal ones) will let you stay. How would they know you are pilgrim? I'd check with the private alburgues on their requirements--some of them can be even stricter than the municipals. Hotels...
  8. Jo Jo

    First camino - which route to take?

    Having walked both the CF and CP, I prefer the last 100km of the CP.
  9. Jo Jo

    First Camino, Need some advice

    More than enough people on the CP to walk with. A group of us got one Brazilian girl to SdC even though she was so directionally-challenged she got lost walking from the restaurant back to the alburge in Tamel (it was across the street--literally, right across the street). By the end, she got...
  10. Jo Jo

    Suggestions Rain Gear June/July Porto/Santiago

    David, A general note on raingear--it is not to keep you dry; it is to keep you warm so that you don't develop hypothermia. Heavy rain gear will protect you from the rain, but the sweat inside can get you just as wet. This is especially important on a summer Camino where getting hypothermia...
  11. Jo Jo

    How to avoid hard surfaces on the Camino Portugues

    Debi, We walked the CP in October 2017. Almost everyone who walks it eventually suffers from PCSD, post-cobblestone stress disorder. Cobblestones are even worse on your feet than normal asphalt. A couple of suggestions. 1) along the coast for the first two days (we went inland after that...
  12. Jo Jo

    Portugues Camino in Early October?

    I've got a couple of days off in early October (basically, the Jewish High Holidays), and my wife and I were thinking about walking one of the Portuguese routes in the first couple of weeks of October. Last summer we walked a pilgrimage from Florence to Assisi which, in addition to being...
  13. Jo Jo

    Sandals or flip flop

    My wife and I bought Keens on the Frances (July Aug 2014). They were great on gravel roads and dirt paths, but just okay on concrete and asphalt (had a pair of Merrell trail shoes for that, which were better but still not great). But they would be hands down better than flip flops. Were I to...

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