Thanks everyone for your replies. We went to the Cathedral to stamp our credentials and proceeded to walk to the Plaza Castilla. We finally found the arrows to begin our walk about two blocks north of the Rodilla Cafe on a post next to the...
Great suggestions! I will definitely follow @peregrina2000´s suggestions. And I apologize to @Doogman for not fully understanding his first post the first time! Thank you all. Can´t wait to get there!
I think the two most obvious places to start your Camino de Madrid are in the historic center at the Church of Santiago and San Juan Bautista, or you can start from Plaza Castilla (the arrows outside the Rodilla store may have faded, but just...
To reiterate what I said in my initial post, at the time that I walked it (5 years ago), the church was generally considered the starting point, but there were no yellow arrows to guide you from that point. The yellow arrows started at the Plaza...
A note from my Camino Madrid blog from Sept 23 - went to Iglesia Santiago y San Juan Bautista and a waited until 1800 for it to open. Turns out there is a Camino marker and map for the Camino in the square outside the church now.
I walked it in 2019, so it may be different now, but back then the church referenced above was the unofficial starting point for the Camino. However, there were no yellow arrows until you got to Plaza de Castilla.
So I made my own way from the...
After the Ingles in 2019, we drove in and out and also walked some parts of the terrain you are covering, on the way via Ribeira Sacra to Playa de las Catedrales. The hillside vineyards were amazing, and some churches in incredible spots. It is...
Here's an idea. Forget social media and all the "virtual coaching" you appear to be getting. It's sounds like you have already have been through enough and perhaps some of the posts on here are not helping you.
Walk your walk and enjoy the journey
Are you next going to complain about people using Google to search instead of doing the old fashioned way of old-fashioned research of looking through all the information sources ourselves? I don't complain about the laziness of using a modern...
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