sillydoll
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2002 CF: 2004 from Paris: 2006 VF: 2007 CF: 2009 Aragones, Ingles, Finisterre: 2011 X 2 on CF: 2013 'Caracoles': 2014 CF and Ingles 'Caracoles":2015 Logrono-Burgos (Hospitalero San Anton): 2016 La Douay to Aosta/San Gimignano to Rome:
It is enough to have rain, mud, sleet and stone on the camino but how do you beat these guys?
"I didn't see a lot of Spaniards, until after Sarria, when there
were lots doing the Camino without backpacks. We were in the bar just
before Ribadiso, and a crowd of Spaniards came in and picked up their
rucksacks there and walked the last 100 metres to the albergue with
their backpacks. My gripe was not that they walked without a backpack; it was that they collected their backpacks 100 metres before the albergues and walked in as though they had carried them the full way - taking up beds that other pilgrims could have had. That is not fair."
"I didn't see a lot of Spaniards, until after Sarria, when there
were lots doing the Camino without backpacks. We were in the bar just
before Ribadiso, and a crowd of Spaniards came in and picked up their
rucksacks there and walked the last 100 metres to the albergue with
their backpacks. My gripe was not that they walked without a backpack; it was that they collected their backpacks 100 metres before the albergues and walked in as though they had carried them the full way - taking up beds that other pilgrims could have had. That is not fair."