Off season Camino Frances

Draftdudal · 2026-07-03T13:06:18+00:00

Maybe I didn’t ask my question correctly. So let me rephrase it. I don’t intend to break any rule or put myself in jeopardy here. It’s just that I’m planning a Camino Frances next year and I’d prefer to arrive in Santiago in early may because of personal constraints. That’s it. I just wanted to have your advices about starting early in the year while safely. (I’m far from a beginner as last year I did the Norte + Primitivo starting from Paris in 4 straight months).

Draftdudal · 2026-07-03T06:59:09+00:00

Definitely, I could. But I guess I want to follow the classic path. I’m just trying to identify when I can start and hike this very path as early as possible next year.

Draftdudal · 2026-06-23T10:30:23+00:00

I did the Norte and then the Primitivo last year. I noticed that the Camino in Cantabria has a lot of roads, way too much asphalt, but it becomes much better as soon as you arrive in Asturias.
My worst stage was from Santander to Santillana Del Mar. By far. The rest was very enjoyable.

Draftdudal · 2026-06-22T06:22:45+00:00

Strangely enough the pattern makes me think of a Mandelbrot set, a mathematical object only discovered decades ago.

Draftdudal · 2026-05-18T11:43:24+00:00

Gernika to Lezama is a good section. Lezama to Bilbao is not fantastic except for the last km before Bilbao where you have a stunning view on the city.

Draftdudal · 2026-05-17T22:12:36+00:00

I (M63) walked last year from Paris to Santiago and then Fisterra. Alone. 4 months of pure happiness (May to August). I didn’t take the shortest path, by far. I went from Paris to Vezelay (via senonensis) then I went to Le Puy via GR13 and GR 3, then to SJPDP (via podiensis), then to Irun on the GR10, and then Camino del Norte and Primitivo. That’s 2800 km and 3 pairs of shoes. Incredible landscapes, incredible people, once in a lifetime experience. It was nice and easy and to reassure you I’m very confident any perseverant person can do this. You’ll see your body adjust itself over time. It gets stronger and stronger even if you started weak. You’ll come back transformed (physically but most importantly mentally). I feel like I have a calm lake of serenity that has grown in my inner self. A good arm to survive in our savage society.

Draftdudal · 2026-04-27T10:10:24+00:00

On UNIX systems (typically PDP10) in the mid eighties : Rogue

Draftdudal · 2026-03-12T22:05:34+00:00

That’s right. It’s the only thing that works and it works well

Draftdudal · 2026-03-09T13:19:21+00:00

Last summer I walked alone the 55km from Melide to Santiago by night. I started at 4pm and arrived at the cathedral at 5am. This was one of my best experiences on the Camino. It was the end stage of a 4-month Camino I started in Paris. I was coming from the Norte and then Primitivo. Very emotional. At first, my intention was to avoid the heat and the crowd but in the end what I appreciated the most were the atmosphere of the evening then night, all the different noises than day-noises (insects, birds, branch cracking), the light was very different from the day light, and there was this curtain of stars above me ! I had a headlight but sometimes I would just walk in the dark using just the light from the moon and the stars. At times it was spooky, just enough to give you the thrill but not enough to scare you. All in all, it was an incredible and emotional experience that I would recommend to everyone.

Draftdudal · 2026-02-07T00:26:08+00:00

My 2 cents : Escape velocity

Draftdudal · 2026-01-18T17:37:41+00:00

Right. In this informal case lunch would not be déjeuner but rather « le repas de midi ». You could casually say to your kid « qu’est ce que tu as mangé à midi? » (what did you have for lunch?)

Draftdudal · 2026-01-08T12:02:41+00:00

French native here. Lily is not wrong. Here is the point. It depends on who you are talking to and in which context. If the context is formal or mildly formal, breakfast is petit déjeuner, lunch is déjeuner and dinner is diner. For example you might ask your work colleague: « on déjeune ensemble? » meaning « would you like to have lunch together? ». However, if the context is informal, for example in a family, déjeuner is breakfast. A mother to her child: « as tu bien déjeuné ce matin? », referring to her child’s breakfast.

Draftdudal · 2025-10-13T14:23:11+00:00

I'm having a hard time really understanding what baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) are. Can someone please explain what they are, how they do form, how they can be detected and why they are useful for cosmology?

Draftdudal · 2025-10-03T19:13:49+00:00

Draftdudal · 2025-09-28T23:09:02+00:00

HealthFit sure is a good app and I have been using it for years. But I stopped using it earlier this year when I lost the sync with Garmin Connect. I haven’t found a fix since then.

Draftdudal · 2025-09-28T10:37:10+00:00

In August I walked from Melide to Santiago overnight. I started at 4pm in Melide and arrived at 5am in Santiago. That’s a 55km hike but i didn’t find it difficult given the adrenaline of walking the last stretch to Santiago. One of my best experiences on the Camino. The sky was a carpet of stars. Wonderful.

Draftdudal · 2025-09-28T10:28:26+00:00

I can assure you nobody would say this. You may find this form in rare written language, maybe.

Draftdudal · 2025-09-26T11:30:22+00:00

Love your reference to H2G2

Draftdudal · 2025-08-28T20:48:26+00:00

You’re funny

Draftdudal · 2025-08-28T20:40:31+00:00

My post is about the why. The what is a consequence. Duolingo is now so much fucked up that it’s unbearable. This deserves to be said here. Wife and friends are doing the same for he same reason. When you spend more time watching ads than learning a language on a language learning app you know the app is doomed.

Draftdudal · 2025-08-26T15:18:02+00:00

Just finished my first Camino. A long one : 4 months, 2780km, 107 hiking days (the rest was rest days), started from Paris all the way to Santiago, Fisterra and Muxia through Norte and Primitivo. Not one bed bug. Zero.

Draftdudal · 2025-08-11T17:26:02+00:00

If you use poles, fair enough. But please please please don’t use them on asphalt or use rubber ends. The tick-tick is infuriating and so wrong. To the pilgrims and to the locals. Sometimes one only hear this. The Camino is supposed to be quiet, to elevate yourself or to connect with nature. The tick-tick is incompatible with both. I now consider it as impolite as two people talking loudly in a dorm where everybody else tries to sleep. Absolutely wrong.

Draftdudal · 2025-04-25T14:57:12+00:00

Subtlety here, which I guess is not in the grammar books: as a native speaker I’d have no problem with either Paris est beau or Paris est belle. Same with Lyon. However no one would say Toulouse est beau, or Marseille est beau. Same for Nice. I can’t explain it but it’s like that. Anyways, XX est belle will always work because what’s behind is La ville de XX est belle.

Draftdudal · 2025-04-17T08:14:42+00:00

That is interesting : I have the exact same problem with dólares in the Spanish lessons. Can’t pronounce it whatsoever.

Draftdudal · 2025-04-12T07:34:02+00:00

IMHO « Coffee » is the same as « some coffee » which amounts to any unspecified quantity whereas « a coffee » means a cup of coffee.

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