Hi, I live here in Newcastle and have walked the route quite a bit. My advice would be the following, just do 3 days on the middle section, otherwise
It takes 5/6 or so days and you will see little on 2 or.3 days just a slog of walking often on...
Wallsend; Vindolanda (worth at least a day); Hexham; Sycamore Gap (now very aptly named); Housesteads; Once Brewed; Carlisle. You can do it all in a day and there’s plenty of taxi drivers in Newcastle will take the fare.
I’ll chew my cheek at...
Thank you to those of you expressing their condolences, and for those who stopped to help Michael and Jean Luc yesterday. My own deepest condolences to those of Michael's friends and family back home. I have only known him a few short weeks but...
And, if I am not mistaken, Findhorn also connects with a faithful pilgrim who showed the way along many pilgrim paths... John Brierley.
May Michael and John be enjoying what some hope for...
Thank you dear Pilgrims for your many kind and loving thoughts and messages. They bring great comfort. I will impart them to all who loved Michael here in the community Findhorn, Scotland, where he lived. At the time of his cremation that will...
I enjoy threads that have a themed topic of pictures, where members can join in with their personal favorites.
@David Tallan is in Salamanca and in looking through my own photos of its cathedral, I came across my own of its beautiful organ pipes...
Ok, here's something and it's hard not to be judgemental, I dont want to be.. but this is as good a place as any to post it:
Arriving into Santiago Airport on the afternoon flight a few weeks ago. I stood waiting for nearly an hour in vain at...
The results are in from the annual autumn questionnaire I send to all the albergues, and they are not as radical as they were last year.
Prices have increased, but not as frequently as they did from 2023 to 2024, when prices almost universally...
We stay on the trail until Riego de Ambros. From there we change to the road and it is about the same distance as on the trail. You can see pilgrim high above you negotiating the trail, then they come down and cross over and go down on the other...
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