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Nick MJ

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      Nick MJ reacted to Perambulating Griffin's post in the thread Cheap bank ATM fees? with Like Like.
      $56 on 300 sounds like the exchange rate, not the ATM fee.
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      Nick MJ reacted to TravellingMan22's post in the thread Cheap bank ATM fees? with Like Like.
      That’s broadly still in the right ballpark re fees. For a UK debit card holder (me) most of the mains banks seem to be at €7 Euros. Sabadell seems to have increased though still one of the cheapest and when I last used DB they seem to be asking...
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      Nick MJ reacted to jungleboy's post in the thread Cheap bank ATM fees? with Like Like.
      If you live outside the euro zone, I would open a Wise bank account and create a euro balance in it. Then you’ll have small fees to convert your currency into euros through Wise and then no currency conversion fees at ATMs on the camino.
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      That would have been enough for me to lower my head and start pawing the ground.
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      I walked past gado bravo signs a couple of times and all the bulls were safely behind decent fences so not a problem. Perhaps fighting bulls are too valuable to risk them charging at random pilgrims! The bull that saw me off was not a fighting...
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      I was on the Nascente last week and came across a field full of cows - possibly the same place. Blithely started walking through them (I’ve lived in the countryside all my life and am used to cattle) and then spotted the bull watching me walking...
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      I've used the CP App multiple times without any problem and you can set the language to English in settings. The only thing to watch is that one can't book a train too far in the future - one has to wait for the date to become bookable.
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      Nick MJ reacted to peregrina2000's post in the thread My Stages on the Lana, 2023 with Like Like.
      A Camino friend just asked me about stages and accommodation on the Lana, which I walked last year. I realized I hadn’t posted a day-by-day, just a general post with some overall impressions. So here’s the day-by-day. I also recorded the tracks...
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      I've been attacked twice by large dogs while on the Camino - a Rottweiler on the Invierno and a feral dog on the Camino Portugues Interior. These were not barking to protect property - they came running straight to the attack (both attacks were...
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