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  1. M

    Be considerate....

    If that's what anyone is worried about contracting, why don't they just wear shower shoes?? :confused:
  2. M

    Be considerate....

    I'm curious too. Why?
  3. M

    What happened to the free lunch?

    I'm curious. Is there a source for this information? I don't think the Parador website implies this but I'm wondering if that is stated elsewhere.
  4. M

    Let's talk money...

    I know that you are just passing on this advice that you have heard but if the advice was valid many years ago, it certainly no longer is. I've been using debit cards in Spain, Italy, Portugal, France and Germany for 5 years and the cards from several US/Singapore banks worked in a variety of...
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    LIVE from the Camino Currently having paella in Zarautz

    Some moderator just gave me a great laugh. I just got an alert that this thread was moved to a new forum called "Food on the Camino". It took me a minute to make the connection. I guess I really did use the word Paella in the title so I have no one to blame but myself. I just wonder what...
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    LIVE from the Camino Debit card trouble at Barajas

    This isn't really true. While most or all of Spanish banks issue their debit cards with 4 digit PINS, their ATMs know that your card is from another country. The ATM will have your bank verify that your PIN is correct, no matter how many digits it has. It's been that way for all of my debit...
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    LIVE from the Camino Currently having paella in Zarautz

    At dinner last night in the mini-palace in Villavicoisa, we met a French Pilgrim who told us that he was staying in the Hotel Carlos I for 20€ which seemed like a pretty good bargain. We were paying 44€ through booking.com. He told us that he stopped at the tourist office and that they had a...
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    LIVE from the Camino Currently having paella in Zarautz

    Bummer. I passed by the breakoff to the Camino Lebaniego today. I only heard of it a few days ago. If anyone is walking the Norte later this year, likes climbing and still has the flexibility to add / change 3 or 5 days, this could be a fantastic walk...
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    LIVE from the Camino Currently having paella in Zarautz

    Gronze suggested a stage for today of Santander to Santillana del Mar at about 37km. I thought "hey, that's a good target for (a much younger version of) me. Good Lord! I try hard to stop before itting 30km. If you actually follow the "official" arrows, I work it out as closer to 43km. If...
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    LIVE from the Camino Currently having paella in Zarautz

    I just found out that tomorrow's 11km to Santander mentioned in Gronze is another "just follow the highway" unmarked route. They did it again! BTW, have you stayed in the albergue in Güemes before? It's the best albergue / hostal experience I've had on a Camino yet. It's a place that...
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    LIVE from the Camino Currently having paella in Zarautz

    It's not often that I say this but today's blog post is worth reading. The weather, the route, the one pilgrim we met, the pensión where we are staying make up for the few bad photos. With many people who we were walking with yesterday planning on different destinations and lengths of stay in...
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    LIVE from the Camino Currently having paella in Zarautz

    We took the coastal variant without knowing we were. I guess the sea constantly on our right should have been a clue but I kept expecting a left turn up the hills at any minute. It just didn't happen but it was a good section anyway.
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    LIVE from the Camino Currently having paella in Zarautz

    I reckon there are about 20 pilgrims in Zarautz, not exactly taking over the town but we are managing to be a crowd. All is good so far. I do have my blog up, if anyone is interested (https://memismscaminodelnorte.blogspot.com.es/2017/04/day-1-irun-to-san-sebastian-253km-85hrs.html). It's...
  14. M

    Scallop Shell

    ...then I misunderstood you here. Buen Camino.
  15. M

    Scallop Shell

    .... and that is an exact quote "by a scholar" that gets quoted by others yet makes no sense at all. The tradition, I think we both agree, started at least in the late 1500's. I don't know how much earlier it started than that, if at all, but to say that it started in the 1980's is silly and...
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    Scallop Shell

    @Kathar1na , I would not doubt that many (most?) medieval pilgrims picked up, bought or were given scallops shells at Fisterra or Santiago and cherished them as some sort of relic. Hopefully I have not given the impression otherwise. I have only argued against the myths that the shells were...
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    Scallop Shell

    Did I get that wrong? Was it 1604? Actually, my point was that it seemed from the poem that it was already a tradition as early as the beginning of the 17th century to take your scallop shell on your pilgrimage. I'm not sure when the tradition started but I am pretty sure it was well before...
  18. M

    Scallop Shell

    I think I've been Trumped! Thanks for the recommendation anyway.
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    Scallop Shell

    Considering that many of the pilgrims in the Middle Ages would have lived near shorelines or within trading distance of them, or walked by beaches on the their way, did the church also guard all the beaches of Europe on the Mediterranean, Aegean, Black, North, Baltic, Irish Seas, English Channel...
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    Scallop Shell

    Some people claim that it should accompany you on the whole Camino. Other people claim that it should only be obtained at the end of the Camino. Many of these people claim only one way is "correct" or "right" but usually the certainty is based on which old wive's tale they heard first or...

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