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  1. dazzamac

    Hello

    Hello and Buen Camino. If you can't find the answers to your questions here already, just ask. There are any number of pilgrims that will share their experience and insights.
  2. dazzamac

    Dave Ireland

    I stand corrected. There was certainly room to wander when I took the train last August. I probably shouldn't have assumed that my experience was typical.
  3. dazzamac

    Dave Ireland

    Hi Dave, I'm guessing that you're flying with Ryanair and so you should probably see a few fellow pilgrims in the queue to get on the flight. The bus to the train station is only about €1 and leaves from in front of the airport. When I flew in last year, it arrived about ten minutes or so after...
  4. dazzamac

    Mike, Ireland, Learning to walk again

    Hi Mike, the woodland paths should give you a good approximation of a lot of the Camino paths in terms of surface. About six months before I walked the Camino Frances last year, I found myself experiencing pain and muscle stiffness due to a long period of inactivity. I had the opposite problem...
  5. dazzamac

    Share Your Thoughs - Why Are You Doing the Camino?

    Hi Meghan, my name is Darran and I'm from Ireland. This July I'll be returning to walk the Camino Frances for a second time, starting in St Jean Pied de Port. I'm walking for a number of reasons but the main reason is because walking the Camino was a long-held ambition of mine and while I...
  6. dazzamac

    Hello!!!

    Welcome Paige, you find the accumulated experience of hundreds of Caminos here so whatever your question, you're bound to find an answer for it. Buen Camino! Darran
  7. dazzamac

    Second Time Around

    Hi Stephen, thanks for the heads up. My folks live in the south of Spain and I've been there in the height of the August heat. Fortunately heat doesn't bother me too much. I will be keeping well watered though and traveling as light as I can. I'm hopeful that I'll get to walk some of the other...
  8. dazzamac

    Happy New Year from Ireland.

    Hello Dave, Happy New Year to you and welcome to the forum. Depending on your fitness level, three months should be enough time to get yourself physically prepared for the Camino. Living in Dublin, you have the advantage of the Phoenix Park for walling the longer distances you'll be building up...
  9. dazzamac

    Hello from Ireland

    Hi Lynn, greetings from Ireland. I walked the Camino last September and found that lentils, chick peas and other pulses can be found in most stores, ready cooked for about 50c a jar. Granted I'm not a vegetarian but I try to limit the amount of meat I eat. Hope your daughter and you enjoy the...
  10. dazzamac

    Future pilgrim I hope!..

    Hello and welcome. I've only joined recently myself but have been visiting the site for several months now. There is a wealth of advice and experience here to draw on. Happy New Year to you too!
  11. dazzamac

    Second Time Around

    Starting the planning and preparation for my return to the Camino in August of 2012. I set out from St Jean Pied de Port at the end of August 2011 and managed to make it as far as Leon before prior commitments meant I had to return home. This time however, I intend clearing the decks and walking...
  12. dazzamac

    Troppo

    As Falcon and Johnnie have suggested, I'd focus your training on endurance and stamina. Take the time to build up the weight in your backpack and build on distance rather than speed. One of the more important physical aspects of the Camino is your body's ability or inability to recover from the...
  13. dazzamac

    Should I do it?

    Hi Críostóir, I admire how you are turning the disappointment of redundancy into an opportunity to walk the Camino. This forum, as I'm sure you're discovering, is a wealth of information about training, packing and preparing. In terms of time - I started training about two months before I was...
  14. dazzamac

    Hi all, I am going to walk the El Camino....

    Hello, having walked in cycling tops, I can vouch for how light and quick-drying they are. One consideration however is that cycling tops always look like cycling tops. It may simply be vanity but for my next Camino, I will be bringing a quick-drying shirt for those occasions when I want to...
  15. dazzamac

    Hello from a new Pilgrim

    Hi Jennifer, I started walking on August 27 last year from St Jean to Leon and only encountered one day of wet weather. However as others have already stated, weather on the Pyrennes can be very changable. As September progressed, the mornings grew colder with frost and ice evident some days...
  16. dazzamac

    Class of 2012

    Re: Class of 2012 and Introduction Hello everyone, starting the Camino for the second time in early August 2012. I walked from St Jean to Leon last September (2011) after years of promising myself to undertake the Way. Starting again from Biarritz/Bayonne but hoping to walk to St Jean along...

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