You’ll be fine. It’s a friendly part of the world with everything you have at home, often of a higher standard and cheaper - albeit in Spanish.
English is widely spoken on the Camino Frances, and nobody expects you to know what you’re doing. If...
@Michele56, the beauty of starting from Sarria is that so will lots of others. Nor will you be the only one starting out alone- far from it. Look out for others with fresh, clean (often new) gear - they’re probably your fellow newbies.
You’ve...
You can do it! How cool that you feel pulled to do it and now you are almost embarking on this long awaited journey. There are so many services after Sarria that you will find everything you need available to you. Have fun and enjoy the journey.
So wonderful to see so many instant voices of encouragement! If that is not a poignant insight into what the Camino is all about then I don't know what is!
I would imagine that this massively supportive reaction would be enough to ensure you...
Maybe I understand things differently, but IMO we're both pilgrims and tourists. Most of us do not live in the countries/cities/towns we are walking through, and that makes us tourists. BUT we are on a pilgrimage to Santiago for whatever...
As far as I'm concerned everyone who says they are a pilgrim is a pilgrim. And I would extend the term further, because I also consider some pilgrims who don't yet recognize it in themselves, although I am unlikely to disagree with them out loud...
On my first Camino after arriving in Santiago, my son and I were eating in a quaint restaurant where the individual tables were spaced nearly shoulder to shoulder. I introduced myself to a couple next to me who were quite old and we chatted for a...
In the context of the revised Rule 3 isn't it slightly ironic to point out that the first ever post on the forum made the very same distinction between "pilgrims" and "tourists" that we are still arguing about nearly twenty years later?
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