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Let me suggest that you check out the app Mapy.cz. The Camino is marked with a blue line. As you enlarge the map at any given point, you will see the hotels, hostels, and albergues in that area. You can then click on the bed symbol to get...
Day 16 - Artieda to Undués de Lerda
The very friendly and helpful albergue with wonderful attached restaurant in Artieda was excellent. I was in a 4 bed room with magnificent views and the sound of cuckoos cuckooing. Lunch when I arrived...
Message to all transatlantic forummembers : you are safe here in Europe! You are safe with us ;).
Most of us know one or two other languages. Police and civil servants are in general very friendly and helpful.
When you are exhausted after a 25k...
Now feels like an opportune time to remind everyone that the crowds on the Caminos travel in great big waves. For every panicked pilgrim riding the crest and worrying about beds, there is another down in the trough wondering what all the huff...
I fondly remember wandering around the Agora in Athens, and imagining being with Socrates and his students in his open air university.
And going up alongside the Acropolis to the spot where St Paul and his friends came across a shrine to the...
I am content that many are prepared to blame an unidentifiable water source somewhere in a near 100km stretch of the road to glory. Nonetheless the major vector of GI tract infection is the well known arse to mouth or bum hole to gobhole route...
Nika
You will find a lot of helpful info on this forum. Welcome to the community.
As Mary Colwell notes in her recent book about a winter Camino pilgrimage during Covid (“The Gathering Place”), “people (on pilgrimages) are searching for...
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