You might enjoy walking along the Loire River and visiting the grand châteaux. Check out this link in English for more info re hiking along the Loire on the GR3 in the Touraine département. Bus and train stops as well as accommodation...
Lots of great responses here @Luka .
Not sure I have much to add, other than I totally 'get' where you are coming from.
Our first Camino is rather like a first love I think.
So special that we want to 'revisit' that feeling again and again.
But...
Thanks for sharing, that was an interesting perspective. I thought this was the most instructive part:
That's worth keeping in mind as we go through another year of 'Is the camino too crowded?' type threads.
Although the part below goes...
Not my goal. On most days I would rather walk for another two or three hours after that. One of the reasons I would now consider making a reservation when I would not have done in earlier years.
I just read this long article by an experienced long distance wilderness hiker on what can be learned from the very different experience of walking a Camino. A very different perspective from the famous article "10 Reasons Why El Camino Santiago...
'I want to walk across a country carrying a bare minimum of goods on my back, to continue a many-centuries-old tradition of long, risk-laden journeys to visit remains believed to be of a treasured saint?'
Tick!
'.... therefore all people and...
Well, today was somewhat better. We walked from Samos to Barbadelo (over 21 km all in, according to the Samsung Health app). My daughter shipped her backpack today and just took a day bag and that made all the difference, she said. It also helped...
In Spain only some Iberico eat acorns ( holm oaks) in its phase of " montanera" and it is very expensive ( bellota). Also, there are iberico that never eat acorns ( cebo) that is much cheaper.
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What does it take to be able to walk a Camino after a heart problem? I guess I will see for myself.
Tomorrow morning I am having surgery to implant a pacemaker. It was the...
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