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A recent post by @Kirkie in another older thread about the descent has prompted me to make this post. In it she tells us this:
"I wrote to turismo.web@navarra.es
The reply I got just now - I quote:
Good morning, as you say, there is a part of...
Hello, two weeks ago, I finished the Camino Francés, and while all the recent memories have not properly settled yet, I think enough time has passed to write a bit about my experience of the Camino :)
First of all - a bit of context. This has...
I walked parallel with a 16 year old French girl and her mentor on the Norte one year. She was real trouble at the start, but a different person by the time we got to Santiago, now cheerful and smiling, as opposed to her sullen face when we first...
Several Spanish websites are reporting on a group of 5 inmates from prisons in Andalusia walking the Camino Frances this week with support staff. Something which happens now and again as part of the rehabilitation of prisoners before release. And...
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...
I can book that bus without a problem. The website works fine in English and Spanish. Try clearing your cookies or changing your browser.
That said it is unlikely that the bus will be full. At present one seat is booked, the one behind the...
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