A local Navarra website has reported the death of a 61 year old German peregrina this morning in Zuriain. The cause appears to have been cardiac arrest. The third death of a pilgrim in Navarra in recent weeks...
Yes I have walked from Rome to Santa Maria de Leuca.
Many fewer people.Quite a number of variants along the way. You can choose how soon to reach the coast.You could take in Monte Sant Angelo for instance.
Waymarking and infrastructure slowly but...
I rode my horse Leo from Canterbury to Rome along the Via Francigena (mostly!) in 2006 - admittedly I took what was then the little known secondary route by leaving the main VF at Châlons-en-Champagne and rejoining it at Pontremoli, having...
This is how we came to our first caminho.
We were visiting my boss in Madrid in 2012 and he showed us pictures of his first
( and last) camino from SJPDP and immediately and spontaneously I called out “ I am going to do that too ❗️ My wife...
My first Camino was 18 years ago this month. My first day was memorable as the hospitalero at SJPP convinced us to cancel our booking at Orrison.
I cried every step into Roncesvalles and that walk almost ruined my entire Camino. Since then...
Hiking 20 km up to the 1060 meter Ibaneta pass via the Valcarlos route to Roncesvalles the first time in September 2004 at 65 was one of the most difficult days on the Camino and certainly the most physically exhausting day of my adult life then...
While walking on the Via Francigena last week in Italy, we discovered that Bags Free now offers day by day baggage transport on the section from Lucca to Rome, and -- like in Spain -- it can be booked on an ad hoc basis whenever you need it. All...
You just turn right on the road instead of going down the path. Its the A -6056 and then go to the next road and turn left onto the NA-1110. You'll see signs for Urtega as you go down the hill. Follow them onto the NA-6016. You'll come into...
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