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Dear Johnie,
Lovely to hear from you. I hope that you are well and enjoying Galicia.
But, by the Lord Harry !!! What a collection! I have never seen so many seals for a 110 km route.
My story is the opposite. I walked the camino in April, gaining a feeble 4 seals over 4.5 days. Places were...
Let me offer my two cents:
1. the Camino Portugese from Oporto (outskirks) to Tui is pretty nice. Why not start there and see how you get on.
2. the Via de la Plata. certainly from Orense to Santiago is interesting. The route gets (or got) a bit turned around in Oseira, but the vast majority of...
I am ! just arrived in santiago this afternoon. A procedural plod from Sigueira this morning took me 4 hours to walk the last 18 km or so. And I didn´t see another pilgrim unti I got to the cathedral (no joke)
However, I was told that there were 9 folk who were a day ahead of me, so perhaps I...
Hello from Betanzos,
The big news over the last two days is the heatwave in Santiago. TVE1 are showing folk in bathing costumes taking the rays.
Me, I have been lumbering up and down the green hills of Northern Galicia. Thoroughly enjoying the exercise, but progress is pretty slow given the...
Dear John,
This is to thank you for your continued support to all the rest of us, as we slog across the Iberian peninsula day after day.
This time next week, I will be in Ferrol, off on another Galician lumber, and I have the updated version of the guide. If I spot any 2011 developments or...
Dear Sojourner and Caminado,
Yes, me too, Scheduled to arrive in SdC on 4th April, then to take the bus to El Ferrol for the CI.
If you are walking the CI ahead of me, perhaps you could write an inspiring message in the Albergue log. Always a spirit lifter.
And this will be my 5th pilgrimage...
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