Last year, my wife and I walked the first stage of Camino Frances (St Jean Pied de Port to Roncesvalles...fantastic stage), then we transferred to Camino del Norte via bus to Irun. We loved del Norte. Once we arrived in Villaviciosa, we picked...
Love it! My wife and I walked a combination of four caminos last Aug-Sep. La Vuelta (multi-stage bike race in Spain) was going on at the same time. We saw a quote/saying associated with that bike race that said, "Una vida tiene muchas etapas."...
I agree with so many of the comments. We learned very early that “the Camino provides.” It does. Get out there, enjoy the sites, enjoy the people, and relax. You will get to where you’re going.
One thing that reduced stress for us on the...
Stunning photos!
It's one of the reasons I have a love/hate relationship with this forum. Every time I think I've settled on a route and covered all possibilities - somebody brings up a new trail that I just have to see....
I walked both. Regarding difficulty there is not much difference as far as I remember. The Le Puy route at least the first weeks, consists for a big part of walking in and out of valleys.
Most walkers on the Le Puy are indeed french so the...
Several years ago the pilgrim office told me that walking the Camino Ingles from Neda just qualified for a Compostela as it was 102km from there to Santiago. My route that time had joined the Ingles there. I had actually started walking from San...
The only thing which will be slightly ‘different’ is when you come to choose your route on the registration system before you get into pilgrim reception in Santiago.
Just pick whatever you want (I’d go Norte with start point Aviles) and sort it...
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