Well they are memories for me but I'm afraid not as interesting as other stories here...
First time stayed there in early June 2009. It was my second Camino, one that I walked with my sister (in memory of my mom who passed a few years after our...
“I will now continue to walk Caminos until I fall down for good.”
@alexwalker, as long as you have friends, known and not yet known, you can keep walking even with a little help if needed.
As Lennon/McCartney said: “I get by with a little help...
You bet. I will walk until I don't. Actually, the events of last year have made me even more determined to walk Caminos until I fall down...... What an exit that would be! Going down doing what you love.
After my "death sentence" many...
A few of the Forum members have known about my condition for some time.
i in Feb. 2024 I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. I was registered in the national Parkinson registry. A miserable death was awaiting as my future. No more Caminos. I...
It sounds like my house: heat and hot water once a week, ice on the inside of the windows in winter, and no internet for much of the year. At least I’d feel at home.
On a Winter Camino my sister and I arrived in Pamplona at the end of January. The first three days were actually like nice days in early April. From then on the weather was quite volatile. One night we were the only people in a private albergue...
The Moab III is about two years old now. I read a fair bit of criticism about how the quality of the Moab went down when the Moab II replaced the original but I walked a camino in one and decided to pick another pair of version 2. I've been happy...
I don't know who was taking care of the place, possibly the people on the farm, whom I never saw (although the drunken local man possibly came from there).
I did not close my eyes all night, and as soon as dawn broke, I went back down the hill...
The entrance hall was like that when I slept there alone in 2022, but the dormitory windows have proper curtains or whatever.
It's not the best place to stay with regard to one's smartphone as the only electricity outlet is in that lobby, and...
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