Please get a SIM card with voice and data that will provide constant access to the web and to use the phone.
Every morning when you leave your hotel or albergue get the local taxi number. This way you will feel safer and if you are tired contact...
Hello Kam
I have now walked 4 Camino Frances twice from SJPDP and twice from Sarria. Coastal from Porto and once SDC to Finisterre. I started aged 60 and am now 71. Early on my first I worked out a pattern that suited me and have used it ever...
hello jonnyrosa
I am a hospitalero in Roncesvalles and have considerable experience with pilgrims who start late in the afternoon.
my advice is don't do it!
you arrive in the dark and when it is raining it is extra dangerous.
my advice would be...
My first Camino was from Porto in late September early October. I could not imagine walking all the way to Santiago de Compostela. On day 3 it was quite overwhelming, so I stopped thinking of the whole journey and concentrated on one day at a...
Do you know how adverse conditions might affect your timings? I suggest you book your bed and give them an approximate arrival time as you are likely to be much later than most pilgrims.
I'm sitting in the municipal albergue in Negreira. No sleep because our dormitory is infested with bed bugs! Put all our stuff, including rucksacks, into a hot dryer. Hoping that's the last we'll see of them. However, one pilgrim is unconcerned...
Back in the good old days, The Daily Telegraph was the paper of record for those who preferred things to stay as they were (roughly in the 1950’s) and were comfortable in the belief that all was well here but trouble started on the other side of...
So many camino articles are pretty fluffy. Here is one that interviews some people who definitely know what they are talking about.
I got this from a Camino friend in the UK, who said that I should read it even though it was in the Telegraph...
hi! I just joined the forum and this is my first post. I’m not sure how it works and if I’m just talking to one person or if this is a general welcome forum for many, but I’m glad to be here and I welcome everyone else as well!
I did the French...
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