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We've just finished Stage 1 of the Camino del Norte (CDN), walking from San Sebastian - Gijon during May/June 2017.
Sorry, but it's taken me a while to put together the list of where we ate, drank, and slept as I've rummaging through numerous crumpled receipts and trying to piece these...
Absolutely Malcolm....couldn't agree more!
I'm sure we could go on about many more reasons why this is, in many ways, a more authentic pilgrimage experience, given the opportunities for reflection, solitude, and the occasional dose of hardship, but fortified by nature at its very finest...
There was a very thought-provoking post a while back about 'Why you should not walk the Camino del Norte (or at least not until you have read this post'.
To be fair, we were already committed to walking CDN by this point, and the post did make a number of valid points, namely:
* Hills - yup...
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