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We stayed in the Monastery in October of 2022. I did make a reservation via email to Paula. The cost was $75.00 for a triple room. I enjoyed it. There is a public albergue there, but I am not sure how many beds they have. The nuns make...
Now feels like an opportune time to remind everyone that the crowds on the Caminos travel in great big waves. For every panicked pilgrim riding the crest and worrying about beds, there is another down in the trough wondering what all the huff...
It is not an absolute no in many places, in fact enough places now take them that I make a specific mention of it in the guides. Last week on the Camino Francés I asked in one albergue if they permitted dogs and the owner replied that yes they...
Fantastic sleuthing all, and what a great initiative by the authorities to evoke the convivencia that existed in that part of Spain during the Middle Ages.
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Welcome to Europe!
Now that you have discovered the European date format, now we can move on to a discussion of comma as decimal point, slashes in the number seven, and many other European cultural differences.
This is just the first of many...
Behind the scenes FWIW, all time stamps in software are recorded YYYY MM DD HH mm ss (and possibly further divisions of seconds if needed by the software, and certainly financial software records but does not usually make use of at least 10ths...
I always use the ISO (International Standards Organization) of year-month-day - today being 2024-05-03. It is easy to remember - from big unit of time, to small. It avoids the confusion between US and European styles. Further, as Rick says, it is...
The ISO format is yyyy-mm-dd. I find it much easier since when I see 03-05-2024, depending on the source, I can't tell if it is May 3rd or March 5th. With the ISO format there is no confusion.
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