So many of you provided helpful (even vital) information, support, cautions, reality checks, patience (lots), hardware, and comedic breaks. This is truly a wonderful place to share.
I am still processing after my second Camino Frances and just...
1- I Loved to stay in Villavieja❤️
2- The alternative goes roughly from Borrenes down to a little river valley and up to the town of Orellàn. Right after you will climb straight to the Mirador and the entrance of the roman cave. Up there you will...
Thanks!!!! This looks to be a perfect book. Looks like it just came out (that's our excuse for missing it), and I couldn't help but instantly order it myself.
A tip for anyone in the US (like me) or outside the EU: If you order the book...
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I cannot resist. Ordered on amazon.it on 6 June In Liverpool on 8 June. Postage €3.85. Cannot complain. Even after (whisper...) Brexit.
It is a walloping great book, 300pp. See mug for scale.
Hi, we staied there two months ago. There is no dinner in the albergue, but a little kitchen (stovetop and microwave). In the village there is a bar and a little tienda. I don't know if the bar is open on Sunday, but for sure the shop will be...
Well I made it! A bit dirty and grubby, and definitely emotional!
I had such a wonderful time walk on voie de Compostelle on the most western of the routes through France from Mont St Michel down the west coast. I loved the Via Bayona/Basque...
I have always liked the Terre di Mezzo guides which I used initially in Italian. Good to see that they continue to work on English versions. Long ago (well in 2018) they had the guide to the second half of Francigena as an interactive app, (not...
Echoing @jungleboy, @timr, and others above, Italy has a mind-boggling number of developed and well-signed hiking trails, from the Alps and Dolomites in the north down to the heel of the boot in the south, and over in Sicily and Sardinia, too...
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