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    How do you feel when you finish a camino?

    I always feel pleased and even a tad proud that I have completed something in my life that I have wanted to do for a while. I am very specific about walking the whole way from what many may seem the ‘start’. I do actually keep a spreadsheet of things I want to do from a travel standpoint and...
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    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    Yes I am normally fairly adherent esp. as the folks here are so nice. It will be pasta in the common area tonight!
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    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    Wow thank you! Very kind and will hold you to that! The Emerald Isle is very near the top of my travel list. Both my parents were born there but have only been a couple of times… it just hasn’t happened and daftly get attracted by places further away! A friend and I are looking to hire a camper...
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    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    Well I am a firm believer in the old adage ‘only eat fish when you can see the sea’ although it can complicate my other adage around restaurant food ‘the better the view, the worse the food’. So I do compromise my principals if there is money to be saved, and to be fair I am not too much of...
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    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    Indeed. I think most rules go unspoken-but the fish one did need spelling out as loads of folks do cook fish in hostels! Not as much as Pasta though! I always feel very inadequate in hostels as they alway seem to attach good cooks and guitar players!
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    Camino fatigue?

    I I would almost imagine that most people who walk Camino only walk one. We are the hardcore here of course who do more. Addictions aren’t always a bad think to lose!!
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    Camino fatigue?

    Sounds perfectly reasonable to me esp. as your experience was not what you wanted. There are a million things to do and see in the world and a millions way to see them each bring their own enjoyment and rewards. Caminos are to a large extent ‘samey’. Same countries, same type of people, same...
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    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    I just saw this at the hostel I am currently staying at (non Camino) - no fish, and booze is ok but not too much! Actually can’t believe there has not been a big debate about cooking fish on here. I love fish but the smell!!! Or maybe I missed it!
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    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    Thanks - we better not get into airline modular pricing! We would definately disagree on that!!!
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    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    Sure I wasn’t expressly talking donativos. That’s a different game. Just something that would help me and offer some extra revenue.
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    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    I would of course. But I would be happy to offer that upfront as a lower bunk is imporant and sadly wishful thinking for me. Just a thought. I paid €7 for a more advanced seat on a flight last night. I didn’t want bulkhead or exit row just a bit futher forward.
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    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    Of course yes but I am talking the guarantee of a lower bunk, rather than paying more if you happen to get one.
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    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    Well I’m a tightwad and would pay €5 additional for a lower bunk! So if the pricing was €12 a bunk, I was wouid happily pay €17. Adds some complexity but am always surprised the big hostel players in Europe (A & O, Menninger) don’t do it, or at least trial it!
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    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    Thank you! I hope I meet you on a Camino. I love a lower bunk (and hate top bunks), am a very slow walker but love to walk into the early evening when very few people are about and like to knock off a minimum of 30kms. I always look a sorry sight down to about 1 to 2 kms and hobbling in. Never...
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    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    Well almost as many residents of USA speak Spanish as residents of Spain speak Spanish.
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    Snake identification

    Thank you. It’s quite nice it has a name. You feel less silly. A doctor friend mentioned it to me in conversation. I didn’t quite have the nerve go to my local doctors, (who are fairly stretched anyway), and when they asked what was wrong with me to blurt out ‘I’m scared of snakes’. Especially...
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    Snake identification

    Are you scared of all reptiles or just Snakes. I have Ophidiophobia not herpetophobia, as snakes are far worse than other reptiles for me. A 2021 studyTrusted Source notes that ophidiophobia is one of the most common specific phobias. Ophidiophobia vs. herpetophobia Ophidiophobia is the term...
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    Snake identification

    I don’t know tbh! Even the word snake fills me with dread. I don’t even distinguish between poisonous and non poisonous though the bigger they are the worse it is. I would sooner be in a room with 100 poisonous spiders than 1 non poisonous snake.
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    Snake identification

    Me too! Can’t even look at them on television!
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    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    Indeed. Familiar with Bangor, Maine, which back in the day was often used by airlines who made a ‘tech stop’ to refuel after crossing the North Atlantic during strong headwinds, before continuing on.

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