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Tavira to Santiago by many different roads

Thanks in advance for your information! From April 25 to June 12, 2023, I do the caminho nascente from Tavira with several different paths to Santiago, all alone, I walk the entire road twice a year since 2015 - In March/April, I will have done several sections of the Mozarabic (Malaga/Baena...
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- Feb 25, 2023
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- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🇵🇹 Caminho NASCENTE (Tavira - Trancoso)
Olvidado or Primitivo - which would you recommend?

Hey PeteD, An other idea - Oviedo until La Robla (Albergue !) and Viejo in direction of Ponferrada and Ivierno ? By taking the Olvidado from Bilbao to Pampelona, you can return to the frances by branching off on the Vadiniense or the San Salvador -
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- Post #19
- Feb 21, 2023
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🇪🇸 Camino OLVIDADO (Bilbao - Villafranca del B.)
Olvidado or Primitivo - which would you recommend?

Buen dia, Use of recents guides on Camino Olvidado (caminoolvidado.com, https://www.xacobeo.fr › ZE3.03.Viejo.htm, https://fr.wikiloc.com/itineraires-randonnee/camino-olvidado-variante-de-montana-41156823 by rayrosa who have done this way in 19 and still alive ! The first one with Wikiloc...
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- Post #17
- Feb 21, 2023
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🇪🇸 Camino OLVIDADO (Bilbao - Villafranca del B.)
Olvidado or Primitivo - which would you recommend?

In September-October 2022, I did the camino Olvidado/Viejo alone, meeting 3 couples from Bilbao to Ponferrada - Before any pilgrim on the Baztan or on the ruta do mar from Ribadeo to Ferrol - The guides are sufficient since the path is largely on the road! Only two albergue ! All my...
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- Post #13
- Feb 20, 2023
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🇪🇸 Camino OLVIDADO (Bilbao - Villafranca del B.)
What experience have people had with waterproof socks?

For eight years, and more than ten thousand kilometers (9 compostella), I mainly use Gore-tex low shoes, for the trails/treks, long-distance races, expensive but very effective - A size and a half more - A drop of 9 to 11 - The structure is very waterproof, only the sole lasts less than 1000...
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- Post #20
- Feb 17, 2023
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🥾 Equipment and Clothes
Looking for Torres Accommodation

Good evening from (french) Brittany- I walked the Camino Torres (April 26 to May 18, 2021) having left Almèria (Mozarabe) Covid year!! Portugues central Finishing with the Spiritual Way of the Sea of Arousa, without seeing a single pilgrim until Ponte de Lima, not an open albergue!!! My logbook...
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- Post #5
- Feb 14, 2023
- Camino de Santiago Forum: 🇪🇸 Camino TORRES (Salamanca - Braga)