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Thanks for taking the time and effort to report back. It is really helpful.
Just one particular comment. In Nov 2016, in Tui I stayed in the municipal and have to say it was extremely average, but of course quite adequate and I am not...
Hi all,
I just finished my first Camino. I was on the Portugues route from Porto to Santiago: Coastal till Vila do Conde after that Central till Santiago.
I would love to give back some of the learnings I had and help other beginners to prepare...
Nice, right! I think I saw "Fast Hiker" Youtuber say - and I paraphrase, we want the entire world to start walking to places again, so crowds, the bigger the crowd the more forward thinking the Camino will become. Walk town to town, enjoy the...
This is really cool, and the analogies are well represented and you can see where he is coming from. It's a down-to-earth view without letting pre-conceived ideas cloud judgment too much, all from someone you might not expect it from.
he got a little incoherent with his point #2, could've done a little research on the legal protections the camino's gained in the last 30 years. The info is not hard to find. He left it dangling, as if the Camino only really resurrected after...
Thanks for sharing, that was an interesting perspective. I thought this was the most instructive part:
That's worth keeping in mind as we go through another year of 'Is the camino too crowded?' type threads.
Although the part below goes...
I just read this long article by an experienced long distance wilderness hiker on what can be learned from the very different experience of walking a Camino. A very different perspective from the famous article "10 Reasons Why El Camino Santiago...
I've been experimenting with merino's anti-bacterial properties myself. My daily walks with Peg have been too short and slow to make any progress burning up all that spare fuel I've been storing over the winter so I've doing supplemental faster...
My wife did not join me for Camino Portuguese last fall. I decided to stretch the laundry days by wearing Icebreaker shirts and socks three days in a row without washing. Since I had other merino shirts and socks and was using Jacotrans for...
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