I walked from Cea to Oseira last year, and didn't have to walk along any stream beds. The path I followed was along an old roadway. IIRC there were a couple of places where the road surface had washed away. Perhaps a little more care might be...
Yes and no. A real benefit of being in another culture (ie. Spanish) is to discover, experience, perhaps be uncomfortable, and learn something, and not have your familiar comfortable home culture transposed into Spain and distort it.
That about a third of people starting in SJPP don't finish in Santiago isn't really surprising. Quite a lot of people don't walk the whole way, for various reasons. I would have thought this figure would be higher but then again some people don't...
Interestingly when looking on Santiagos statistics only 15.369 pilgrims that started in SJPDP claimed a compostela this year. Assuming it takes 1 month to walk (like, 1 month worth of pilgrims is still on the road, so i compare to the Jan-May...
No, I try to follow the rules/ arrangements of the country / albergue where I am a guest.
So I take the disposable sheets yes.
Can you provide us details that these sheets come from the Eucalyptus?
Even if this is so then I would still take...
No. That's disgusting, because those liners are there for a reason. If you refuse them, you're adding a night's-worth of your sweat and sebum and skin flecks on the mattress. Thanks a lot.
I'm not sure I'd recommend the Sanabrés as a first Camino. I'm on it right now (started in Zamora on June 26th) and there are very few pilgrims, often only 3 or so in albergues and I rarely see the same pilgrim twice. This is my fourth time on...
After a false start with Autocares Vivas and their website, and a correction from @OldHands, I think I now have things straight.
Check the website here.
The buses that currently run from León to Zamora (in the summer, M-F) seem to be the...
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