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  1. M

    Leaving Porto around April 20 2014!

    peregrin0 tom, on Poets in Porto -- A few days ago I made a reservation there. They have two places, the Inn and the Privates, and one seems to be around the corner from the other. I was confused and first contacted the Inn asking if they had a single room. They said no, but booked me into a...
  2. M

    Leaving Porto around April 20 2014!

    I'll be a couple days behind you -- landing in Lisboa on the 19th and heading up to Porto to start either Easter Sunday or Monday.
  3. M

    Experience and advice (first 400k, May 2013)

    You sound like good company, Luka. I am thinking of doing the VDLP next spring and hope I run into others like you. I appreciate all the good info, too.
  4. M

    Vila do Conde to Rates

    I ran into this post completely by accident -- I thought I was in another thread -- and realized that the hospitalero Antonio that Cote is talking about at Rates is the same person I met a few weeks ago while walking the Camino Primitivo. He is from Aveiro and frequently volunteers at Rates...
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    Current Weather conditions on the Primitivo????

    Joe, I don't know what the weather turned out to be for you, but I started from Oviedo a week later and we had all kinds of weather! A number of days of perfect sun, snow, rain, and in between. Below are photos of Hospital de Montouto on April 27 and then leaving O Cadavo on the 28th. Really...
  6. M

    Lovely Poem

    Thanks to all of you for sharing these lovely thoughts. You have really lifted my spirits! Buen camino to all, Martha
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    How is San Bol?

    So it sounds as if Naisa didn't stay -- a shame, I think, since under her care the place was clean and welcoming. I think she said she had given up her job and sold her possessions and had been walking and looking for a niche to serve in for the past six years. She hoped she had found a home...
  8. M

    How is San Bol?

    I stopped for the night at the refugio at San Bol this time last year and a lovely young Dutch woman -- named Naisa, I think -- was the hospitalera. She hoped to stay semi-permanently and had plans for some improvements. I've often wondered if she was still there and, if so, how things were...
  9. M

    Anyone have experience with numbness/tingling in one toe?

    Thanks Jeff and Sandra for sharing the info on surgery! You have inspired me! Martha
  10. M

    Anyone have experience with numbness/tingling in one toe?

    Ahh, mg, someone who understands that it's not a problem with socks, boots, or my imagination! I know well how it was to beg my feet to keep going a little longer. Too bad we didn't meet on the camino so we could share those frequent breaks. I haven't looked into it too carefully, but I...
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    Anyone have experience with numbness/tingling in one toe?

    I did the Camino last fall and after a few days noticed that I got a tingling in my third and fourth toes after about an hour of walking. A few minutes later I would get an unbearable pain in the balls of my feet. Fortunately, I also figured out that if I stopped and took off my boots and...
  12. M

    sock allergy???

    Thank you, Arn and others, for sorting this out. I thought this was the oddest problem, but we are never alone, are we? Perhaps it would help others to know that, after some experimentation and advice from a backpacking website, I've found that Bridgedale A.T. Boots Plus socks eliminate or...
  13. M

    boots, feet, socks

    Many thanks for all the good advice. What is now apparent to me is that: I will have to have a backup shoe plan -- although sandals don't work for me since I get blisters if I don't wear socks and my orthotics don't fit but I have some other lightweight walking shoes I can bring. I need to be...
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    boots, feet, socks

    Since you are all so helpful, I wonder if you can give me some advice about boots. I have spent all summer trying to find the right combination of boots & socks (wish I could trade in my feet, too) in preparation for a Sept 1 pilgrimage. Here I am with the latest combination falling through...

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