Macpac (Kiwi brand)is very good. Expensive but often half price at end of ski season. Down from $180aus to $90. Remember buy cheap buy twice. Buen Camino
In NZ Afghans are choc biscuits with choc icing and a walnut on top. They are tasty and that's what caught my attention. The post, whilst having nothing to do with biscuits, was enlightening and funny.
There is a small place about 8km west of Palas de Rei called "San Xulian" wonderful food, hospitality, small(12)mixed dorms(2). It was the one time we had trouble with accommodation or lack of. We had been walking in the rain and it was getting dark and no beds anywhere. Out of the gloom we...
in 2015 we were walking when the All Blacks played Australia and no views except soccer, tense because Australia had won the first game. All Blacks done good and won second game. Camino rocks
I often dream of the rabbits that ran across our path in the pre dawn light just before that hippy place with the ring of life that you threw money into after leon. Or the bins with Lennon's imagine lyrics written on them. Or the flow of the water in the channels. Or the empanadas that were...
I remember one stretch had garbage bins every km or so and someone had written a line from John Lennon's Imagine on each one progressively through the song and the Camino. It was in Galacia I think. I love that song and walked along for quite awhile with it in my head. I still remember the...
He slipped through the crack in the bell
Be strong
There is no reason, no rational
Stuff happens
Look for a yellow arrow, it will be on the wall behind the cow
Buen Camino
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