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  1. J

    reading on the camino

    I am like many others who have contributed to this thread an avid reader and I know that recommending somethign for someone else to read is aproblem unless you know then well. What I will suggest is a book of essays. I like essays as they are usually a few pages and you can finish one in a...
  2. J

    what was your most expensive "unscheduled" cost

    65 Euros for trekking poles. I hurt my ankle and using a single walking stick didn't work so I bought a pair of trekking poles in Leon and they really helped (and of course the 6oomg ibuprofen). I still have the poles. I don't normally use them but I carry them collapsed strapped to the side of...
  3. J

    CD Gps Camino Primitivo

    Hi It was last September but as I remember the trail markings were fine. We had no GPS and never had any problems finding our way. Sounds like something else you can save money by not buying! John
  4. J

    How to transfer pictures from camera to blog?

    Hi I don't thnk this is how you are supposed to do a blog but I did text only and when I got home inserted pictures. I didn't want to spend time and get frustrated trying to figure out how to do this when I could be spending time with new friends, enjoying and exploring a new country. I'm not...
  5. J

    Bookswap on the Camino?

    Hi Its a good idea and may work. My experience was that some of the hostels had english language books that had been left behind and that could be taken but not all by any means. I remember giving a book I'd picked up in a hostel in London to a woman from Colorado on the Camino Inglise and...
  6. J

    What are the Do's and Don'ts of Albergue Etiquette?

    With respect to snorers my experience was that when I walked a long day and had a couple of drinks for dinner with good company I never noticed the snorers for more than a few minutes. John
  7. J

    lomo

    Thank you This forum is so educational. john
  8. J

    lomo

    Thanks for the suggestions re pulperias. By the way what is lomo? John
  9. J

    lomo

    Lomo?? I am sad because I am unble to find a good pulperia when I come home or any pulperia at all. john
  10. J

    Has your camino experience changed who you are as a person?

    Yes But I think that was because it was an experience that took me well outside my "normal" life, imposes challenges and involved meeting many people from much different backgrounds. When we stop changing and growing in response to dramtically new situations where are we? john
  11. J

    Appreciation

    Hello Joy I did the Primitivo to Lugo and then bussed to the Inglise and walked it to Santiago. Most of the information I could give you with respect to albergues etc would be found in the guides and maybe out of date by next summer. I can try to give you my impressions and some considerations...
  12. J

    Appreciation

    Hi I just wanted to express my appreciation to the volunteers who run the albergues and to the unnamed and unseen people who waymark the routes. I don't think it gets said enough and too many people's efforts get taken for granted. John
  13. J

    Alternative route between the Norte and Frances

    It sounds like heaps of fun! Unfortunately I have a flight booked out of Santiago on the 17th and people to meet elsewhere or else I might take you up on your offer. John
  14. J

    French Fries

    HI Thanks very much for the information about the possibiities in the Lugo area. Sounds great and I will take the information with me cause who knows what will happen. We make plans and then adjust depending on what happens. My plans are actually to do the Primitivo from Oveido to Lugo and...
  15. J

    French Fries

    I do remember all those french fries but my plan (see how well it works this Fall) is to walk the Primitivo to Ludo and then take a bus to Ferrol and walk the Inglise to Santiago. I feel like taking the paths less travelled. John
  16. J

    French Fries

    Thank you very much Jean-Marc and Josephine I don't think of myself as a picky eater and I know that I will need to eat substantially if I am walking several hours a day but I do remember feeling quite tired of seeing mounds of french fries repeatedly in Galicia. Maybe I am a picky eater? I did...
  17. J

    French Fries

    Hello This may be a silly request but here goes. I did the Camino France a couple of years ago and in Galicia I do remember the heaps of french fries that I could never finish and as I got closer to Santiago was increasingly unmotivated to finish. On the other hand I did like the ensalada...
  18. J

    Age old question - Water on the Camino

    "Generally speaking a howling wilderness does not howl: It is the imagination of the traveller that does the howling" Thoreau John
  19. J

    Bank Card

    I don't understand. Why not simply use your bank card to draw cash instead of a credit card? John
  20. J

    Bank Card

    It is strange/curious that the US isn't adopting chip credit cards and I have no idea about their recycling (ours is a work in progress) and I am not going to criticize others when we have so much to work on at home in Canada! and I started this topic just looking for a bit of reassurance about...

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