Trail notes
Things we learned the slow way
Coverage, kit and small practical arguments from people who have actually carried a phone across northern Spain.
Coverage
16 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Where the Meseta eats your signal
Between Burgos and León the Camino Francés goes very quiet — and so does your phone. Here is roughly where, and why it matters less than people say. Read the note
How to
10 Aug 2026
Install it at home. Switch it on in Spain.
The single most common support email we get is from someone who activated their eSIM three weeks early. Here is the orde... Tamás · 3 min read
Data
3 Aug 2026
What 1 GB actually buys you out there
Pilgrims massively overestimate how much data they need — right up until someone in the group starts video-calling home... Marta · 4 min read
Routes
26 Jul 2026
The Norte is not the Francés
Coastal cliffs, more towns, worse weather, and a completely different relationship with your phone. Iker · 6 min read
Field note
19 Jul 2026
Albergue wifi: an honest review
Forty pilgrims, one router from 2011, and a password written on a napkin behind the bar. Three stars. Tamás · 3 min read
Explainer
6 Jul 2026
One number, two lines: what "data only" means
Our eSIMs do not give you a Spanish phone number, and for almost every pilgrim that is the right trade. Marta · 4 min readPhotos: Wikimedia Commons contributor (CC0) , Simon Burchell (CC BY-SA 4.0) , José Antonio Gil Martínez from Vigo, Spain (CC BY 2.0) , José Antonio Gil Martínez from Vigo, Spain (CC BY 2.0) , Simon Burchell (CC BY-SA 4.0) , Schumi4ever (CC BY-SA 4.0) · via Wikimedia Commons