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      Take the bus.
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      I rode my horse Leo from Canterbury to Rome along the Via Francigena (mostly!) in 2006 - admittedly I took what was then the little known secondary route by leaving the main VF at Châlons-en-Champagne and rejoining it at Pontremoli, having...
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      I sat in Cafe Iruna in Pamplona reading 'The Sun Also Rises' Certainly put me in the moment.
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      fransw reacted to Albertinho's post in the thread Memory lane with Like Like.
      This is how we came to our first caminho. We were visiting my boss in Madrid in 2012 and he showed us pictures of his first ( and last) camino from SJPDP and immediately and spontaneously I called out “ I am going to do that too ❗️ My wife...
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      fransw reacted to Anniesantiago's post in the thread Memory lane with Like Like.
      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...
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      fransw reacted to mspath's post in the thread Memory lane with Love - Red heart Love - Red heart.
      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...
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      While walking on the Via Francigena last week in Italy, we discovered that Bags Free now offers day by day baggage transport on the section from Lucca to Rome, and -- like in Spain -- it can be booked on an ad hoc basis whenever you need it. All...
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      fransw reacted to Bill's_Walking's post in the thread Mud and my Angel with Like Like.
      You just turn right on the road instead of going down the path. Its the A -6056 and then go to the next road and turn left onto the NA-1110. You'll see signs for Urtega as you go down the hill. Follow them onto the NA-6016. You'll come into...
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      fransw reacted to Anniesantiago's post in the thread The cowboy bar is open. with Like Like.
      Despite reports that it has been closed for good, the Cowboy Bar was open this morning
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      [Moderators, feel free to move this if I posted in the wrong place.] What does it take to be able to walk a Camino after a heart problem? I guess I will see for myself. Tomorrow morning I am having surgery to implant a pacemaker. It was the...
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