We used an app called Splitwise. It works whether you are paying cash or card. You don't have to use the app to actually settle up at the end, so it's perfectly safe. Works with any number of people.
Also, in the Pilgrim's Office...
...downstairs has a daily Mass.
...upstairs has several rooms manned by different language- speaking volunteers. Not all the same hours, but I've decompressed there with lovely Irish volunteers in the English...
I had access to Brierly, Sandy Brown's book and the Moon one, and they are all different. I too like a map to orient North. + for Sandy's book! The Moon book is more like a traditional vacation guidebook so will give you an idea of the "best"...
I used the Village to Village guide books rather than Brierly. Call me old fashioned, but I like the orientation of the maps to have North at the top of the page, lol.
For me, what I was looking for in a second Camino was pretty simple. Fix the errors and omissions from my first Camino. When it actually happened, hterewas something else added as a goal: spending quality time with my son.
Now my third Camino...
The thing about that horrible descent on the rocks is that you will remember forever those two people who helped you. The memory of the pain and fear will fade, but your interactions with those beautiful people will not.
My favorite is Iglesia Sto Tomas Apostol in Moratinos. About 30 people can fit into the pews, the retablo and artwork were supposedly sold off in the 1920s by a bad priest, and what's left now is a sort of religious kitsch rummage-sale aesthetic...
On the Frances, I've always been partial to San Martin in Fromista:
On the Madrid, Wamba has already been mentioned so I will put in a little plug for Santa Maria de Mediavilla in Medina de Rioseco:
On the San Salvador, the church in...
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