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Thanks everyone.
Yeah, I have some naysayers around me and passport issues in the mix don't help but thanks for everyone's encouraging words.
I am actually finding Rosetta Stone is helping me along with the other internet resources. I hope to be a fluent speaker someday but not on this trip...
I would prefer to do the Camino Frances. I have looked into doing the Camino Portugues, and still keeping it an option.
But I have been being discouraged left right and centre from going period so I currently having mixed feelings about even going now. :/ I thought I was prepared. maybe I am not.
Yes, I know about the Napoleon route and its dangerous in the winter. I remember not that long ago a Canadian died on that route, it made our national news. What are the average temperatures in winter there? I am currently living in a place where it has been minus 40 with the windchill for over...
Thanks everyone. I pretty novice at all this, so I am just researching into all my options. I have had two relatives go over but one went in summer and the other went in fall. I am unfamiliar with Valcarlos, and am having trouble finding it on a map.
Hi,
I am looking at starting the Camino in Feb of 2014. I am Canadian and from my reading I see that there is quite a bit of snow in the mountains. Are they completely impassable at this time? My understanding is that there are many routes to get to Santiago so I would like to take the best one...
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