Camino de Santiago advice

Not certain where you’re starting, but 100k is the minimum needed to get the certificate at the end. Since you don’t have to carry your bags, take a camera since you’ll be transiting some very pretty countryside. Ensure your shoes fit well, and are well broken in prior to the hike. You’ll probably need items for blisters. I haven’t walked the Camino, but have stopped at a number of places along it. There are forums dedicated to it, so you may want to find one of them for more informative suggestions.

Walking my 3rd Camino starting 18 Sept., so message me if you like. There are lots of Camino FB pages or if you aren't on FB, have a look at this website and forum. Here you will find all the information you might need.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/

From Sarria you will need to get 2 stamps per day if you want your Compestela. They are easy to find as every place has a stamp. Grocery stores, cafes, bars, gas station, churches.

Thanks, good advice. We are starting from Saria. That will give us about 110 k.

Hi Scott -
I just finished walking the Camino from St Jean Pied de Port to Santiago this summer. Since you are only going to be walking for 4-5 days at the very end it won't be that difficult, especially since your bags and lodging are taken care of. This part of the Camino is quite crowded since lots of people walk the minimum just to get their compostella but you'll still get some sense of what the Camino is like.
I highly recommend drinking as much cafe con leche as you can (it's delicious!), ordering the pilgrim menu at the restaurants where you stop, and eating at donativos you come across that are provided at some of the local farms along the way. There is a particularly good one in the hamlet of Paradela between Sarria and Portomarin that you'll pass on your very first day...all homemade food that you can eat in their lovely courtyard. If you can, go to the street market in Melide...beautiful fruit and veg that you can pick up and eat along the way. One other restaurant that was probably my favorite on this part of the Camino was in O Pedrouzo, the last "big" town you come to before you reach Santiago...it's called Restaurante Parrillada Reguiro - a little family run place right in town with fantastic homemade food served family style. In true Camino fashion it's all the red wine you can drink and friendly service - it's a favorite of perigrinos.
Buen Camino!

We used Caminoways.com to walk from the Portuguese border to Santiago this past October and they were great! Advice: be sure to spend a couple of days getting on the time zone before you start. No hiccups, great dinners, baggage transfers and hotels or Albergues along the way. We are toying with using them again going on either the English or French way in the fall of '19 or 20'

Hey, this sounds great. Can I ask how you arranged the lodging and transport of your bags? Is it a service? I think I may want to do an abbreviated Camino in a couple of years. Any referrals would be appreciated. Though I appreciate that fact that folks are able to walk the entire Camino with a backpack and staying at hostels, I'm not in a position to be able to do that -- at least not at this point in my life. Thanks.

We used caminoways.com

This is all easily done on your own without paying someone extra money. There is a bag transport called Jaco trans that charges 5 € per bag and everyone on the Camino seems to use Booking.com to reserve rooms. You don't need to stay in albergues. There are tons of small hotels and pensions to stay in. This allows you more flexibility. Do you want to walk 20 km or just 10 km today? Tomorrow the opposite?