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Nice question! Brings back some sweet Camino memories! ❤️
I would say the following 3:
Hospital de San Nicolas in Puente Fitero (Camino Frances). A small albergue, or hospital, which is run by the Italian Brotherhood of the Friends of Saint...
During 10 years of walking the Camino Frances in autumn/winter at age 65 to 76 I spent roughly 450 nights usually stopping in municipal albergues. Only the final days in Santiago were ever booked in latter years.
When weary after walking wearing...
Who owns and staffs what albergue is very arcane info that doesn't usually interest many people. There are several non-profit places missing from this list, and a couple of them are misidentified... but it doesn't matter much.
This is the...
There was a brief period at the start of the Camino revival in the 1980s when numbers walking were too small for anyone to make a living from the Camino. What provision there was for pilgrims was mostly donativo and voluntary and often offered...
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...
Fair point
8 people overnight In a room - different countries of origins - different viruses - different immunities- spreading the bugs.
Be kind be considerate - everyone wants to finish their Camino.
Camino Frances
O Cebreiro
Santa Maria a Real
tomb of Don Elias Valiña Sampedro
photo taken November 28, 2014
I paused at the tomb of Don Elias Valiña Sampedro the local priest well known for much historic camino research and for painting the...
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