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  1. JabbaPapa

    Cotton blend socks

    Sucks if the last bit is true, and whilst cotton socks should generally be avoided by pilgrims and by long-distance hikers in principle, you may be one of the exceptions to that rule. Everyone's footwear issues and the solutions they need are unique to each single person. If it ain't broke...
  2. JabbaPapa

    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    I've seen it happen, though confiscated rather than torn up. There were telephone chains between Albergues about "this one is not a pilgrim". It was usually for those using motor vehicle support, especially if they were motoring the Camino and pretending to walk. It has become very rare, but...
  3. JabbaPapa

    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    Both disculpe and desculpe are Spanish, there's just some regional and dialectal variation.
  4. JabbaPapa

    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    You use it when speaking with people in an official capacity, Police typically, but situationally it can sometimes be preferable to the usual británico or británica even in a simple Albergue.
  5. JabbaPapa

    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    Though truth be told, rain is now a LOT heavier, and I am glad to be indoors ...
  6. JabbaPapa

    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    We were somewhat more careful in the mid 1990s, but really that just means it's that's when we started to be so many along the Way that we started to annoy each other from our various personal habits. It's really just a constant inter-personal learning experience that is always ongoing and that...
  7. JabbaPapa

    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    Today turned into an interesting test for my re-soled and sadly no longer fully waterproof 2014 Camino army boots. It's the Western Alps here, but the rain today is somehow decidedly Pyrenean. Not cold, heavy drizzle, fine and constant -- and at the end of it my socks were and are still bone...
  8. JabbaPapa

    From just before Burgos - 47 friggin kms to find a bed!!!

    Modern social security systems are inherited from Mediaeval systems put in place in Hospitals for the ill, the indigent, the excluded, and the pilgrims. Indeed !! :) A complex comment, but yes indeed. Though there's the element, true to present day, of pilgrimage for deeper veneration or...
  9. JabbaPapa

    From just before Burgos - 47 friggin kms to find a bed!!!

    And even if not, you could : Shock !! Horror !! put your sleeping bag down and sleep outdoors !!
  10. JabbaPapa

    From just before Burgos - 47 friggin kms to find a bed!!!

    Pentecost weekend, so yes, a huge one. Also yes, the weekends in Burgos and León are perhaps best avoided. Good luck going forward !!
  11. JabbaPapa

    How to get the soap residue out of socks

    I use savon de Marseilles -- and I've never had this problem. If it's just the socks and no other clothing, I'd say it's possibly either some consequence of wear and tear on the socks, or some weird interaction between those particular socks and that particular soap.
  12. JabbaPapa

    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    Nor does being intolerant and unwilling to learn how to deal with your own sleeping difficulties. Demanding that others pay extra €€€ for your own personal convenience is aggressive. And BTW just to be crystal clear I am not a snorer.
  13. JabbaPapa

    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    o_O
  14. JabbaPapa

    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    Of course it is.
  15. JabbaPapa

    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    Physical aggression against a sleeping pilgrim just because you are intolerant of snoring does not constitute "consideration".
  16. JabbaPapa

    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    Not in my experience. I've found that in the Albergues, frequently those who complain most about snoring are snorers themselves.
  17. JabbaPapa

    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    THE absolute worst snorer I have ever encountered was my dad. Do not project your own difficulties sleeping as something to blame others for.
  18. JabbaPapa

    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    This goes both ways, given that snoring is an involuntary natural phenomenon. Those who are very aggressive towards snorers are more problem than solution. There is a breathing technique to move beyond it, which is learn how to breathe in rhythm with the snorers ; then practice it until it...
  19. JabbaPapa

    Jubilee Year of Hope 2025

    The Roman Ways in Italy and the Assisi route will certainly be MUCH busier than normal. As to the Francigena outside Italy, no idea, though in France the southern Francigena route from Arles via Montgenèvre and the Coastal route via Menton will likely both be somewhat "busier" (hrm ! hrm !!)...
  20. JabbaPapa

    Jubilee Year of Hope 2025

    Dates for the Jubilee Year from l'Osservatore Romano : Later, on 29 December [2024], the Holy Father will open the Holy Door of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, the Cathedral of Rome. On the same day, in every Cathedral and co-Cathedral throughout the world, the local Bishop will...

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