Be Prepared for the Camino Frances
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A helpful guide to preparing to walk the Camino Frances
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Be prepared is not only a BSA motto, it applies to all of us.  Be aware of your surroundings.  Avoid bad situations and have an exit plan.  Bottom line you don't want to be part of the natural selection process when the SHTF.
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This is a good read and as a reader of many Camino books and also a pilgrim, I would say this is an honest well written account containing the author's good and the bad stories of the Way. While not the best book that I have read on the subject, it is very readable and I definitely recommend it to other Camino tragics, cheers.
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Started reading it when it arrived. I haven't set off for my Camino yet but plan to in the coming year.
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Wonderfully detailed map.  My one complaint is that they do not include the beginning of the Camino Frances a few miles into France.  I bought the Pyrenees map to get that small portion of the trail only to find that the two maps are in a different scale, plus the Camino is not marked on the second map.  If you don't care about the Camino de Santiago my complaints will not affect you in the least.  It is hard to understand how NatGeo got this little detail wrong as the rest of the map really is good.
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Having walked about 1,000 miles on the Camino de Santiago in France and Spain, I could readily 'walk in her boots' on the PCT. As a trail author myself (A Journey of Days, A Journey of Days Continues), I appreciated the author's ability to get the details right and her absolute frankness in what was going on in her head. Well worth reading, although I don't think I will emulate her adventures on the PCT anytime soon!
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This book provides great insight on more than just the physical pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago. The vivid writing allows the reader to feel as though they are walking alongside the author the entire route. The author also holds nothing back in sharing both her demons and her victories. Reading this book will take you through a roller coaster of emotions. I look forward to more work from C.W. Lockhart.
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Loved this DVD because it gave soooo much information about traveling in France plus Frances' history and customs.
My wish is someone would do a DVD on being served the most wonderful meal in France..the whole DVD being served and consuming this meal. maybe they will enclosed a scratch and smell card to know the wonderful aromas of the food!! JUST  A WISH.
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It's been 10 months since I returned from my Camino.  It was the best experience in my life.  Like John, I was scared out of my mind.  His words brought back so many delightful memories.  I would recommend this book to anyone that is considering walking the Camino.
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I love this movie!!!! I saw this movie when it first came out in the theaters a few years ago. My husband was very touched by it and I thought it was hokey. Since then, my Mom died and I had the urge to do The Camino. Granted it was only the last 126k of the French Way but that was only the beginning of my desire to start from St. Jean Pied du Port, France like Martin Sheen did in the movie. My husband and I started the French Way last October 2014, from the same hotel where Martin Sheen was shown leaving for the Camino on his first day! How he could walk 800km with absolutely no physical preparation and only his dead son's gear to see him through is a bit questionable but, barring that, I just love watching the movie over and over again. It captures so well the depth of mourning the loss of a loved one, each pilgrim's desire to doThe Camino so varied as each person who walks The Way and the camaraderie you find among your fellow travelers as you go through this long, arduous but beautiful journey. I had to buy my own copy of the movie since I no longer have it on my streaming video service and I like watching this film to remind me The Camino is not just the physical journey across Spain but the journey that is our lives.
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I walked the Camino Francs last Spring from St Jean Pied de Port.  Rupp's book well-described much of what I experienced. Her book explores many of the spiritual issues raised by the challenges of walking. I highly recommend it for someone who is considering walking, or as spiritual reading for someone who would like to walk but feels the challenge might be beyond reach.
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My wife Julie and I walked the Via Francigena a few years ago. Had we had used this guide it is very possible our little walking journey would not have not become an escapade. Such is life! (It did however give us a good excuse to write a book about our little audacious walk along the Via Francigena)

For English speaking readers this is probably the best guide to use for anybody considering tackling the Via Francigena. Even though there are other guides including an Italian and German guidebook and now a French guidebook, this guide even for all non English speaking readers, is the most up to date guidebook available today.

It a bit heavy to carry but it includes accommodation information, detailed maps and routes descriptions - something you need to have in order to successfully do the Via Francigena in Italy. It also describes alternate routes where the official route may not make sense. It is also an ideal guide for cyclists, since both Paul and Babette have cycled the entire route too.

If you have done the Camino de Santiago in Spain and looking to tackle a more demanding and maybe adventurous walk through Italy, then I would consider this guide and using it on the Via Francigena.
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Having read Kevin's first book "To the Field of Stars" in preparation for my own pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago, I was delighted to learn that he had written a second one...which I quickly downloaded.  He recounts his 1500 km walk from Leuven, Belgium (near where I lived for 11 years) to Sainte Ferme in Southern France just short of St. Jean Pied de Port.  This pilgrimage is much different than the Camino Frances.  There are very few pilgrims and accommodations are scarce, both issues that were major issues for Kevin.  He really valued even the shortest encounters with other pilgrims.  His biggest issue was his feet; once just after his departure requiring his return to Brussels to recuperate for a month and the second stopping his pilgrimage in Sainte Ferme.  I loved how his best friends were Pope Gregory (his Gregory backpack) and Click and Clack (his hiking poles) and I shared his pain when he had to replace them when Click could no longer click.  And I shared his agony when he had to stop short of his goal of walking all the way to Santiago.  But what makes this book so much better is his spiritual insights triggered by the things he saw around him...nature, the architecture of the many churches, and the kind (and not so kind) people he met along the way.  While many consider his first book to be a classic in the Camino genre, this book surpasses that in its wisdom and spiritual depth as Kevin confronts his fears and discouragements.  Read it!
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I liked the supply list offered and practical advice about hoe to prepare to be a Pilgrim on the Camino. But even more than that, I liked how they shared their personal lessons each of them learned through this experience. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.
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Great movie that describes the jorney to El Camino to santiago de Compostela in Spain
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I thoroughly enjoyed Katharine Soper's account of her journey on The Camino. As a "busy" American who yearns to learn to be more present in my life, this book was the deciding factor. I'm off to do my own Camino pilgrimage next Summer. Who knows, perhaps a memoir will come of it.
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Just finished this wonderful book of Bill Bennett's and found it hard to put down. Both numerous and serious at times and a wonderfully written account of his journey. I have six books about the Camino and this is by far the best one. I found it extremely helpful in the planning of scratching my itch to do this Pilgrim walk. I have underlined numerous parts and will be referring to it often.