It's a very personal thing and there are too many variables really.
Fitness
Health
Bodyweight
Gearweight
Condition of feet and joints
Preferred walking speed / daily distance
Injuries that might occur
Places you want to spend time in.
People you...
For planning, my recommendation is to determine how many days you think that you will need to walk the Camino, then add a week. Now you've got a week "in the bank" to use if you get sick, injured, realize that you can't or don't want to walk the...
I admit I am not a picky eater, but I didn’t find the food on the Meseta to be any worse than elsewhere on the Camino. One of my best meals of the entire Camino was a mushroom pasta dish at Albergue La Morena in Ledigos.
I think saying the...
Thinking about 'walking purists' - is quite funny really as no one walks their pilgrimage to Santiago ... unless they actually live on a Camino everyone uses transport; aeroplanes, trains, ships, buses, cars ... then they get off before they...
You are long past the way to Valcarlos when you reach the decision point to go down the steep trail through the forest or the gentle asphalt path to Roncesvalles.
Looking at the Wise Pilgrim app, I don't see that the safer alternate route is on...
Nerd Alert: Lots of early church fathers (Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianus, Basil of Caesarea, John Chrysostom, etc.) criticized early Christian pilgrims for wanton behaviour, gluttony, drunkenness, and failure to appreciate the true purpose...
To get my glasses out of a pocket, I have to stop (my hands are busy with trekking poles AND the phone or map), pick them up, remove the sunglasses, etc.
Even if your glasses were attached to the most secure lanyard available in the known...
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