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    Re: Current Lunch Prices

    Indeed! You will need a lots of practice trips. I reckon at least 100 per country to cover all the different regions within a country… how about the upscale versus the lower scale, the restaurants owned by folks from other countries. Don’t come to the UK and ‘train’ in fish and chip...
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    Pacemaker Implant Surgery Tomorrow. A New Phase for Future Caminos.

    Best wishes Dave.
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    standard of living/quality of life in Spain

    Thank you. Yes I googled this the other day when I saw this thread! Finland followed by a number of its neighbours!
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    standard of living/quality of life in Spain

    I understand Bobs point - I felt the thread just about stayed ok but of course this forum is frequented by folks that are very pro Spain so a certain direction of thought is likely. Also most folks see the best side of Spain, and in a way just race thru Spain for a month and go home, not really...
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    standard of living/quality of life in Spain

    Indeed. From a UK standpoint, the three starter trips to USA are Florida, New York and Las Vegas. All great trips of course but convey a certain set of images. Largely positive I might add. Of course replace those three with Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Charleston and you have a very different...
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    standard of living/quality of life in Spain

    As a European who visits the US alot, the lack of public transport is the biggest issue by far. It makes life virtually impossible, as a non driver. I guess for folks who live there, the lack of transport means you have to drive everywhere, which obviously means folks are isolated, it means...
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    Money taken from my Cash Passport! ☹️

    It’s cost effectiveness probably depends on what part of the world you are from and what card deals you have!
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    National passport in card form

    Oh well I was slightly premature in my update. I assumed that the staff at the Romania exit point would ‘double up’ as covering the entry into Bulgaria, but no, as we got off train in Bulgaria, the border police were at the door taking everyones passports. I offered my passport card and it was...
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    National passport in card form

    Was just reminded of this old thread by another thread but yes they took my Irish passport card this morning, as I crossed a Romania / Bulgaria check point! Different check point to last time. Quite time consuming - the train schedule allows 20 Mins - but it took maybe 40 mins for a 2 carriage...
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    Walking with a baby or young child

    No experience myself but I met a young couple with a baby on the Camino. They seemed very relaxed and I asked them ‘how it was’. Basically they just said you needed to be a lot more planned and organised, and that the ‘default position’ as a young parent is to be planned and organised anyway so...
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    Money taken from my Cash Passport! ☹️

    I don’t use WISE or any similar product but I got an email from them this morning saying their fees had changed as I am registered. It didn’t really mean much to me as a non-user. You should have an email listing changes and a fees calculator to check what it means if you are a customer or...
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    Re: Current Lunch Prices

    Good point. Soft drinks are often more expensive than wine in many parts of Spain I always think of €2 as par but often much cheaper! It’s just flows easily back and forth with no fuss! I struggle to imagine anyone getting too emotional about it! That said I would always offer to pay for...
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    Re: Current Lunch Prices

    Don’t bang your head against the wall without some supervised training first!
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    Re: Current Lunch Prices

    I must admit consuming 3 x 250ml glasses of wine over say a 2 hr dinner wouldn’t strike me as rude or madly excessive. I think different nations may see it differently.
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    Travel Insurance for Americans

    Ok mate. As I say it’s not my business but I think you are leaving yourself exposed with such a small coverage and I would sooner mention (even if unwelcome) then you have issues. Sorry! Maybe USA policies are structured in a total different way whereby they load the policy with repratriation...
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