Nah, it's Brave browser on my PC. The change happened during Robo's re-quoting of my post -- mebbe he did the quote on a smartphone with DeepL or somesuch.
Or mebbe the forum software's just messing with us. ;-)
my advice is to use the Camino guides as just that. A guide. During training you will get a sense of how far to walk a day. The first week is a breaking in period, but also a beautiful journey that should not be rushed. We took an extra day...
That's indeed odd. Nothing has changed in your original post, so perhaps @Robo's computer or phone somehow changed it??? Maybe it thought that bail was baile, Spanish for dance.
Well, I'm certainly aware that the Napoleon route is not "required" (nor is the Valcarlos, for that matter — ask any Spaniard, and they'll probably tell you that the CF starts in Roncesvalles, and then they might ask you why you aren't just...
Start date was the 12th of September. The weather was unusually cold and wet in and around SJPdP, and a few days before I arrived, sections of the Somport Pass (about 60km east of SJPdP and also part of the traditional Camino routes, though not...
I had in fact tried to book either of those places, but t'was not to be ("no room at the inn").
My suspicion is that the best "guard against failure" option is to hike the first day to The Virgin (about 12km up the mountain, and still on a...
I came nowhere near completing the CF, even though I'm in reasonable shape for my age (66), a life-long weight-trainer and had spent months training on hills etc. I had to bail by Logroño, 7 days in.
Unexpected, adverse weather in the earliest...
Even having failed to complete my CF (there's always next year!) you were an inspiration to me, and for that I thank you. Rest up and be well. Ultreia!
Water in particular is a constant problem in smaller places along the CF, and Spaniards pay multiples of what we pay for a kWh of electricity. In such situations, disposable bed linens can be a perfectly sensible/responsible trade-off.
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