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    Camino Baztan: Advice, please.

    Enjoy !
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    Snake identification

    Now that's a word that doesn't get aired very often - envenomate !
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    Snake identification

    Saw a good number on the VDP sunning themselves on the trail including one that I had to stop my partner stepping on !
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    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    ...and back to the topic. Never understood the night walkers. My one would be that the person who has the top bunk gets use of any chair. Useful to help get up and down and to sit on whilst the person on the bottom bunk gets to sit on their bed to put on boots etc. Only encountered it once...
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    Camino Dating

    And the Donkey's not talking either !
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    Camino Dating

    I'm glad this topic has engendered such interest. I've been on at my partner for some time now to compile a series of stories of people meeting and falling in love on the camino (for clarity the long term ones). There certainly are a lot of great yarns just from the people we've met and clearly...
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    Camino Dating

    Ahhh it all makes sense now 🤣
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    Camino Dating

    I was taught a gentleman never tells but let's just say the camino provides. People I walked with met, fell in love and are now married with children. You get a good sense of a potential partner after a thousand km of walking a camino. You already have at least one thing in common!
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    Shower/bathroom etiquette in the albergues?

    It's questions like this and the answers they engender that make the forum the joy it is ! The sights, sounds and experiences of the alberque are an integral part of the Camino experience and will give you fodder to regale your family and friends for years to come. Sometimes you will want to...
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    Locals Only

    I have to admit to being quite touched (in the emotional sense) by the local folk especially in the smaller towns by their random acts of kindness. I don't speak Spanish and was not expecting much but the old woman who had picked a bunch of flowers and randomly insisted of giving them to a...
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    Diversity on the Camino

    Just answering points raised...after all you invited us to Ponder as we please.
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    Diversity on the Camino

    Was just picking on Kenya from that list wasn't tallying Africa as a whole.
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    Diversity on the Camino

    Thanks Pete, unfortunately I think the point is now lost. If we are being pedantic I didn't say "none" as I am fully aware there are others walking the Camino having walked with people from a host of countries including South and North Africa, the Baltics, Scandinavia, Iceland, Israel, Japan and...
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    Diversity on the Camino

    Yep....huge numbers ...I was referring to the major contributing countries as per the link. 18 amongst 443,000 over 12 months I think highlights the OPs observation. Fully aware there are other nationalities in minor numbers including my own. The micro is lost in the macro.
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    Diversity on the Camino

    Hang on I'm busy checking the rules before answering !
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    Diversity on the Camino

    Not at all...have you not read some of the posts 🤣 When you have one person from Zambia and 195,000 from another kind of highlights things. I think most interesting was the comparison between Ireland and the UK given population. I thought your post was also Magnificent !
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    Diversity on the Camino

    You've made my day...I knew we'd be in there somewhere, just haven't hit the critical mass ! A highlight of my VDP was walking with Mohammed form Morocco - a regular caminoist - who, despite being paler than I, courtesy of burns suffered attempting a summer VDP, brought a huge amount of colour...
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    Diversity on the Camino

    Well since we are pondering... I decided to look up the official statistics for 2023. So nearly half of all Pilgrims arriving at the Pilgrims office (and not wanting to get into the whole who picks up the piece of paper debate) are Spanish. In the recordable national statistics there are no...
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    Diversity on the Camino

    Yes. On the last camino the last "person of colour" really stood out. She was walking in bright pink crocs ! Talk about diversity I've never seen anyone walking in crocs before.
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    Business ideas? - Just for fun!

    Flying fox in kiwi vernacular 😁

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