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is it easy to get a train ticket a few days before at the train station going from Madrid to Pamplona, looking on line I'm not sure what all the words mean even in the English translation page...
There are several trains daily from Madrid to Pamplona. You can usually wait right up until the hour of travel to buy a ticket ... just don't try this on a holiday. You can even buy a ticket on the train ... but that's a cash only proposition.
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Just to reassure those starting now and the next week, but I was in Roncesvalles last night and, though full and busy, I talked to the hospitalero who told me, there were still 27 empty...
One death attributed to a heart attack last week.
Two pelegrinos gored, one seriously.
One broken leg and many ending in Pamplona due to knee and leg and ankle injuries.
Is it possible to confirm...
I started out from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port on 1 May. It turned out to be an unforgetable day. Above 1,000 m or so it snowed, catching many people unprepared. Later that day "many" walkers were...
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After walking the Frances from SJpdP last October, I'm planning to revisit the bit between Logrono and Burgos this July, following different stages. It's the section where I had...
I'm flying from the USA to start my Camino this week. I will check my backpack, and to protect it, I will ship it in a plastic storage bin like this one:
Rather than shipping the storage bin to...
I arrived in Santiago yesterday aiming to get the bus today from Lavacolla to Samos. Wanted to post as a live from the Camino but couldn’t work out how to do it!
I walked Valenca to SDC with 2...
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