My first SPRINGTIME days on the Camino Francés ![Party popper :tada: 🎉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f389.png)
A couple of interesting tidbits.
![IMG-20240414-WA0001.jpg IMG-20240414-WA0001.jpg](https://caminoforum-4df7.kxcdn.com/data/attachments/166/166659-0da410e13bf84d7405f7b6a6af5241e0.jpg)
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I just left Foncebadón yesterday. See photo.
By the way, it's really not busy at all on my "wave". Plenty of spare beds.
1) I passed Manjarín. It was a beautiful, clear and mild morning. Tomás (looking in fine form) at Manjarín greeted us![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
2) I heard from two different sources (who didn't know each other) in two different towns that two people (walking separately) were fined €12,000 early last week for crossing the Route Napoleon!
Of course, more could have been fined but what I know for sure too is that other folk crossed without being greeted by unimpressed police officers.
So I don't know if the police only waited for transgressors at certain times (?)
I'm from Scotland and know what a risk it also is to OTHERS (i.e rescuers) when people ignore warnings.
And how costly a rescue can be...
3) I just want to warn students and those on a budget:
A very small salad (with cheese but no meat) in a plastic box at León train station costs €7.50. More expensive than Madrid bus station and even many Parisian transport hubs.
Obviously tourist prices but a jolt back to reality after the "community/trust experience" of Camino life...
PS It calls me a "new member". Maybe I left the forum for a while (I can't remember) but I've been following this page for some time, at least a few years.
My first Camino was SJPdP to SdC in 2006.
![Party popper :tada: 🎉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f389.png)
A couple of interesting tidbits.
![IMG-20240414-WA0001.jpg IMG-20240414-WA0001.jpg](https://caminoforum-4df7.kxcdn.com/data/attachments/166/166659-0da410e13bf84d7405f7b6a6af5241e0.jpg)
![20240413_114528.jpg 20240413_114528.jpg](https://caminoforum-4df7.kxcdn.com/data/attachments/166/166660-019486fa8005598f515c61a8c6b67ebd.jpg)
I just left Foncebadón yesterday. See photo.
By the way, it's really not busy at all on my "wave". Plenty of spare beds.
1) I passed Manjarín. It was a beautiful, clear and mild morning. Tomás (looking in fine form) at Manjarín greeted us
2) I heard from two different sources (who didn't know each other) in two different towns that two people (walking separately) were fined €12,000 early last week for crossing the Route Napoleon!
Of course, more could have been fined but what I know for sure too is that other folk crossed without being greeted by unimpressed police officers.
So I don't know if the police only waited for transgressors at certain times (?)
I'm from Scotland and know what a risk it also is to OTHERS (i.e rescuers) when people ignore warnings.
And how costly a rescue can be...
3) I just want to warn students and those on a budget:
A very small salad (with cheese but no meat) in a plastic box at León train station costs €7.50. More expensive than Madrid bus station and even many Parisian transport hubs.
Obviously tourist prices but a jolt back to reality after the "community/trust experience" of Camino life...
PS It calls me a "new member". Maybe I left the forum for a while (I can't remember) but I've been following this page for some time, at least a few years.
My first Camino was SJPdP to SdC in 2006.