Winter Walking the Camino - NEW Book!

nilesite

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Frances (2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2021)

• Jun 13, 2022

• #1

Have you considered walking the Camino off-season? In the winter? It's quiet, it's moody, it's fabulous! But you might want to read this first

 

nilesite

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Frances (2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2021)

• Jun 13, 2022

• #2

nilesite said:

Have you considered walking the Camino off-season? In the winter? It's quiet, it's moody, it's fabulous! But you might want to read this first

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Buen Camino!: Tips From a WINTER Pilgrim

Check this out at Amazon

Buen Camino!: Tips From a WINTER Pilgrim

Echa un vistazo a esto en Amazon

Buen Camino!: Tips From a WINTER Pilgrim

https://amzn.to/3MJGIKH

 

Saint Mike II

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cycled from Pamplona Sep 2015;Frances, walked from St Jean May/June 2017. Plans to walk Porto 2020

• Jun 13, 2022

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Thanks. In previous years experienced pilgrims have posted (in some cases in much detail) their winter Camino travels. A book collecting a personal experience is a great idea come to fruition. From what I have read you just have to "pick your timing" and be prepared to make adjustments to your time table or walking. Cheers.

 

Bradypus

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Too many and too often!

• Jun 13, 2022

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These days I always walk my Caminos in winter. And usually on the less travelled routes. A very different experience from the Camino Frances in summer. Like stepping back thirty years but with better accommodation!

 

Rebekah Scott

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• Jun 13, 2022

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Here at Peaceable Kingdom in Moratinos we see most of our pilgrim traffic in winter, when the rest of the local hostels are closed for the season. Winter pilgrims are the cream of the crop, IMHO, the real McCoy.

 

nilesite

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• Jun 13, 2022

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Saint Mike II said:

Thanks. In previous years experienced pilgrims have posted (in some cases in much detail) their winter Camino travels. A book collecting a personal experience is a great idea come to fruition. From what I have read you just have to "pick your timing" and be prepared to make adjustments to your time table or walking. Cheers.

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Yes! It will tax your people skills. But it's a pilgrimage, right? Not a beach vacation

 

Bradypus

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Too many and too often!

• Jun 13, 2022

• #7

nilesite said:

Yes! It will tax your people skills. But it's a pilgrimage, right? Not a beach vacation

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Walk the Sanabres and you can bathe in the hot springs in Ourense even in the middle of winter. For free. Luxury!

 

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• Jun 13, 2022

• #8

nilesite said:

Buen Camino!: Tips From a WINTER Pilgrim

Check this out at Amazon

Buen Camino!: Tips From a WINTER Pilgrim

Echa un vistazo a esto en Amazon

Buen Camino!: Tips From a WINTER Pilgrim

https://amzn.to/3MJGIKH

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Thank you for the links @nilesite I like the idea of a winter Camino - may lure us back to the Frances which I'd love to walk again.

 

mspath

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• Jun 13, 2022

• #9

nilesite,

Good luck with your book. I look forward to reading your recollections.
In the happy, easier past years, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010, winter was the best time to walk the CF for me. Little was hectic; without the hordes of summer all had time to share.

....In retrospect it was close to perfect. If I could I would do it again, but now at 83 I hike only in my memory.

 

malingerer

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• Jun 13, 2022

• #10

Bradypus said:

Walk the Sanabres and you can bathe in the hot springs in Ourense even in the middle of winter. For free. Luxury!

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now this might appeal to a wrinkly like me!

samarkand.

 

Rebekah Scott

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• Jun 14, 2022

• #11

malingerer said:

now this might appeal to a wrinkly like me!

samarkand.

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If you weren't wrinkly going in, you'll be wrinkly when you get out!