I have done all my caminos by bike and have never been turned away to give walkers preference. The VdlP is very bike friendly, and the best choice for a bicigrino(a) in my opinion.
This has always been the way, since cycling became popular.. at least with the municipals, parochials etc. And it's a good, common sense rule, most walking pilgrims would agree. It's relatively easy to cycle on another few km or whatever. Not so...
I'd like to share an observation that I've witnessed a few times on this camino that I think needs some attention and that is regarding elderly pilgrims traveling with family.
Yesterday I witnessed a daughter of 50+ berate her elderly mother for...
In another group that I moderate one of the members posted that when he arrived at the albergue in Tui, he was informed that bikers needed to wait until 7pm to check in. With the current traffic on the Central, that meant he wouldn’t be getting a...
I am not a US resident, so don't have access to Google Fi or Verizon, but it seems to me that there are other options that would be far less expensive than using a roaming plan from your domestic provider.
That said, if you do have two-factor...
I came across bed bugs when I lived and worked in west Africa in 2014/15. I did not have enough freezer space to freeze much of anything. I purchased a bed bug heater/killer from amazon to use for my luggage ahead of my return. It was waiting at...
On our first Frances, we took lightweight sleeping bags. They were too much! It can get so hot in an albergue with so many pilgrims in a room. We mostly slept outside our our sleeping bags and they started to stink by the time we got to...
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