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  1. isawtman

    Time for more compostela type certificates?

    I don't have any Big Issues with the last 100 km either, but it seems to be a concern to a lot of people. All the camino forums and facebook pages I visit have had posts about it.
  2. isawtman

    Time for more compostela type certificates?

    Okay, if there is less people hiking a certain route, there are less people going to the bathroom on a certain route. As far as open churches and price of luggage transfer, that's not a major concern to many pilgrims.
  3. isawtman

    Time for more compostela type certificates?

    I don't fail to understand anything. I do admit that it was a fairly extreme suggestion. But they have made some camino altering rules in the past. For instance, at one point you could hike the Camino however you wanted and then they established official routes to follow. As others have posted...
  4. isawtman

    Time for more compostela type certificates?

    Having 11 variants will not fix the problems in the last 100 km because none of those variants are in the last 100 km. I suppose they could just ban people who are doing only 100 km from doing the Frances and make them start at one of those other places.
  5. isawtman

    Time for more compostela type certificates?

    Yes, having an alternative path fixes all those problems. There are already over 10 variants on the Camino Frances. Some examples are Valcarlos, Montejurra, Villovieco, Calzadillo de los Hermanillos, Pradelo and of course the most famous one is Samos/San Xil.
  6. isawtman

    Time for more compostela type certificates?

    You're making my point for me. You say many posters say they will never walk there again. If there is an alternative path, then yes, many people might decide to walk there again.
  7. isawtman

    Time for more compostela type certificates?

    Judging from the number of posts we are getting about the last 100km, it is the biggest issue for a number of pilgrims. What else would be the biggest issue?
  8. isawtman

    Time for more compostela type certificates?

    We are not telling them anything. We are making a suggestion. And I believe in the power of suggestion. People have to be a lot less cynical. There are over a dozen variants on the Camino Frances already including the Valcarlos variant right at the start.
  9. isawtman

    Time for more compostela type certificates?

    Rome wasn't built in a day.
  10. isawtman

    Time for more compostela type certificates?

    It is not a non issue. Overcrowding in the last 100 km is the biggest issue on the Camino Frances right now. There are several other variants on the Camino Frances, why can't there be one for the last 80 km?
  11. isawtman

    Time for more compostela type certificates?

    Yeah, and the "Bewildering number of Stakeholders" should think about splitting the Camino Frances at Portomarin. Just because something is hard to do doesn't mean it shouldn't be done.
  12. isawtman

    Time for more compostela type certificates?

    As I have written before, the camino authorities should think about splitting the Camino Frances after Portomarin.
  13. isawtman

    Second Camino Left me feeling Unfulfilled

    I've already tampered down my expectations for a second Camino. My first Camino was the Camino Frances in September 2022. It has the iconic sites of Cruz de Ferro and O Cebriero. It has a lot of people to interact with. It affected me in ways I didn't think possible. I am planning a Second...
  14. isawtman

    Help - Going with companion, but want to be alone

    I thought it meant since they would be sleeping in different places that would give her more alone time
  15. isawtman

    Help - Going with companion, but want to be alone

    I tend to give out advice that is a little different which clearly irritates other people. But here I go. Somebody else said that the fact that he is camping might be to your advantage. I think not. I think it's going to make things much worse. The reason is that camping stuff weighs more...
  16. isawtman

    For those not on the Camino, where are you feeling called to right now?

    Well, now other people I know seem to be interested in the Camino, so I may go back and do the Frances again with them
  17. isawtman

    For those not on the Camino, where are you feeling called to right now?

    I got back from Spain on October 14th and my boss called me back to work even though I a allegedly retired
  18. isawtman

    Winging it or Getting a Helping Hand?

    I guess the point of this post was that if I had arrived a few days earlier I wouldn't have had to worry about getting a bed at all
  19. isawtman

    Winging it or Getting a Helping Hand?

    I think the best thing to do is to book the first few nights and see how it goes. I wish I would have pre-booked Roncesvalles and I wound up getting the last bed in Burguette. Going into big cities you usually don't have to pre-book because there are so many accommodations in the cities. The...
  20. isawtman

    Crisis of confidence

    I'm sure when you get done with the camino you will say it's the best thing you ever did

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