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Four or five days of lunches from Sarria to Santiago will be a tiny fraction of the cost of your airline flights across the Atlantic and back. The menu del dia is generally better quality, and a little more expensive than the typical menu del...
Wine is almost always included in the menu del dia. Sometimes even a whole bottle. I haven't walked from Sarria but last year I was paying €11 for a menu del dia in non-touristy Asturias. The bus station in Oviedo did menu del dia with a...
There is currently a native speaker of English working at that office. If you needed additional assistance, you could have asked for her help. To expect that volunteers in an office in France providing advice for a walk across Spain should be...
This is a common misconception among pilgrims: That the pass of the Napoleon route gets closed and opened by some unknown authority throughout the year.
This is not the case.
From November to March, the higher altitude section is closed by law...
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