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  1. tpmchugh

    Checking your backpack on flights

    Always check mine in but I was using a special sack for putting it in. Realised that great as the sack was, it weighed almost 1kg. Someone suggested wrapping it in a blue IKEA bag which I did. Used two luggage straps to close it and it worked perfectly. Was even able to spot my bag being loaded...
  2. tpmchugh

    Paris to SJPDP - Train Delays due to Strikes and Protests?

    A good Camino buddy arrived in Saint Jean today from Paris. Never mentioned any problems and from his photos, all looked good. Buen Camino
  3. tpmchugh

    Leaving Leon - take a taxi to the outskirts????

    Marked well enough. If I found my way thru, anyone can. However, it is a soul destroying walk thru city streets and industrial area. Second time I was there, I walked down to the plaza below cathedral and took the bus up to Virgin del Camino. Check with tourist office facing cathedral and they...
  4. tpmchugh

    Bilbao to Logrono

    If you have to stay, try Pil Pil hostel just a short walk from the bus station
  5. tpmchugh

    Travel company or do it myself?

    When I first joined this forum about 2012, posts about how to plan every night months before travelling were unheard of. Nobody or at least very very view booked ahead. When I finally walked in March 2013, no hospitalero ever asked if I had a reservation. It was just unheard of. Sending...
  6. tpmchugh

    Travel company or do it myself?

    Have walked 5 times since 2013, the last a year before you and never had a problem getting a bed. I started each day between 6:30 and 7. Walked for about 6 hours and stopped at the first albergue I came to, roughly about 1pm every day. That on average would have been in the region of 20 to 24...
  7. tpmchugh

    Travel company or do it myself?

    Can't really tell you what to do. What I can say is I did it all myself and the thrill I got from saying to myself, 'I am an old man and I did this'. Got the same thrill when I stood on top of mountains that I would have run a mile from when I was younger. It really is a tremendous sense of...
  8. tpmchugh

    Facts about Travel from the UK to the EU

    If you are entitled to an Irish passport, I would advise getting one. Thousands of Brits have already done so
  9. tpmchugh

    How to get from Santiago de Compostela to SJPdP

    Johnnie Walker, a famous pilgrim know to many of us has just started a pilgrimage for us all carrying all our intentions from St Jean to Santiago. His journey started with a 10.5 hour train journey straight through from Santiago to Pamplona then a taxi to St Jean. On your own, the taxi may be...
  10. tpmchugh

    Bilbao accomodation late flight arriving

    I used the Pil Pil hostel. Five minute walk from bus station where the airport bus drops you. I stayed in dorm room but it does have private rooms. Breakfast included in price
  11. tpmchugh

    Travelling from the UK without flying

    How about a long drive. Drive to Stranraer, ferry to Belfast, drive to Cork, ferry to Santander then drive to Santiago. Park in railway station (dont know if long term parking allowed but think about that later). Train to Lisboa and start walking. Back in Santiago do the journey in reverse. I...
  12. tpmchugh

    Travelling from Manchester, England to SJPDP - advice?

    Stanstead to Biarritz with Ryanair then Bouricott taxi to St Jean... easiest to my mind. There is also Luton to Biarritz with Easyjet
  13. tpmchugh

    Last minute Barcelona travel nightmare, any advice please.

    Was stopping in Ireland and flying to Santiago not a consideration
  14. tpmchugh

    Last minute Barcelona travel nightmare, any advice please.

    As you have your tickets bought, this is really pointless but I would have flown to Santiago then bussed to A Coruña. Going via Barcelona seems like a round about way for a near cut as we say in Ireland
  15. tpmchugh

    Airport security

    Available in Santiago and Finisterre. I know this useless information cause my daughter collects them. She must have a couple of hundred. Got stopped in Southampton airport 4 years ago airport because I had one in my bag. Girl on security told me that over the course of a summer, they confiscate...
  16. tpmchugh

    Getting to Pamplona from Bilbao Airport

    Do check out Pil Pil hostel, but you should get food fairly early. There are a couple of bar/restaurants just round the corner but stop serving food about 5 or 6. Personally, I brought some Cup a Soups, got some bread and that did me until breakfast. There is a decent kitchen and as I said...
  17. tpmchugh

    Getting to Pamplona from Bilbao Airport

    By the way, airport bus to bus station leaves from a stop to your right as you exit the airport. No need to cross any roads
  18. tpmchugh

    Getting to Pamplona from Bilbao Airport

    I have used Bilbao to bus to Burgos and on another occasion to bus to Pamplona. However, I did stay overnight in Bilbao on both occasions. As its a mid day flight out of Dublin, it was more convenient for me to stay the night and get an early morning bus to Pamplona and start walking as soon as...
  19. tpmchugh

    How do you handle figuring out a return flight when you don't know how long the walk will take?

    Never had a return flight booked. Never worry about it, just book it when you are within a few days of the end. First camino, I stopped unexpectedly at Burgos. Went to the tourist office, got a wifi account and booked a flight home from Madrid having first checked bus times for getting to the...
  20. tpmchugh

    Walking to Santiago de Compostela airport

    Just walk back to Lavacolla. Its strange how no-one I know, myself included, has ever walked back to the airport. They have just walked 800 km and a wee walk back to the airport is too much. Hard to believe, isn't it :)

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