Hi Dawn.
Thanks for clearing up the “40 days” Comp-Fisterra question!
Though…what a great idea to spend that time in between Santiago and Fisterra…That Camino is pure magic, a perfect, refreshing, cool, ethereal, ending, to the long roads from the Pyrenees.
Seems to me that 32 days is more than good, great I’d say, for the Camino del Norte. Pilgrim crowds a lo
Camino Frances will not be an issue! You’ll love the beaches. I’m one who believes that it’s important to incorporate the “tourist” in us as we do the Caminos, to enjoy nature, meditate, to take time to stop and talk with folks as we pass though their lands, not just fellow pilgrims, as well as smell the flowers, converse with statues and…
I didn’t do enough of that on my first Camino. I was too busy thinking, among other things, about getting early to the next albergue so that I would make sure to get a bed! Imagine that! Ah, but I’ve learned since…
A friend of mine talked with me about doing the Via Francigena some time ago. Sounds like quite an enterprise. I'm too hooked with Compostela-related Caminos these days. Wonder how long this addiction will last?
Yes, that albergue in Irun was something else. It was really a 3-4 bdr apt., very well kept and clean, with a bit of a distance to the Camino, not bad. Matter of fact, it’s been the only refugio I’ve stayed at lodged in an apartment setting…wonder if there are others?
I’m shooting to get back on the trail towards the beginning of June from Lescar, French portion of what turns into the Camino Aragones, on to Somport and Puente. I've never done that French portion of the Camino, so am excited about it.
Buen Camnino :arrow:
Xm