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Camino Ingles from 21st May (was One month to go)
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[QUOTE="Jeff Crawley, post: 626107, member: 41083"] Well, [I]THAT [/I]was different! Miscellaneous ramblings from a returned pilgrim: > sorry I missed you, Faith, I did "rent" a pole and what a life saver it was! > you never said you had . . . UKULELEs at the Pilgrim House! I shall try and bring out some suitable (simple) song books in September (the heck with syncopation, just look at that alliteration!) > the train journey from SdC to Ferrol is to be recommended - beautiful. > railway officials are just as bad in Spain as anywhere else - got turfed off platform 5 because (along with others) I hadn't been strip searched and x-rayed. Shame because I was having a nice conversation to two Australian CFers - apparently Sarria and onwards was "bloody awful" (that would be mid- to early May I'd guess) > did you ever see the like of those cranes in Fene? > there's a supermarket (Avenida Mar, s/n, 15500 Fene, La Coruña, Spain) just behind the little riverside park that has an orange juicer. You slot one of their new bottles (500, 750ml) in place, pull the lever and watch the fresh oranges being squeezed - brilliant! > When you are warned about the climb out of Pontedeume they are NOT joking. I might have died if not for Faith's hiking pole and the little seating area 3/4 of the way up (SO unfit). > Meson Paz likewise saved my life. > there's a bar (Bar Navedo) about 2.5km south of Mino - I think the first I saw outside of a town since Fene > speaking of Mino - it's nice to have a town you descend from at the start of a new day. > Did not like Betanzos - it rained and was home to the only unlocked church I found (a dark, unwelcoming one at that) > went "off piste" after this and stayed at Costa de Egoa on a recommendation from an American pilgrim on ViewRanger. FABULOUS place and you dodge Hospital de Brouma except it rained most of the morning and was cold and misty in the afternoon. There were also more arrows painted on the roads than seen at Custer's Last Stand - it appears the flecha amerillo has caught on with cyclists that have nothing to do with the Camino. > Ordes - pretty ordinary but good cream cakes. > Siguiero has a fine, open swimming pool but I had no cossie (look it up) > Tourigrinos exist on the CI but, curiously enough, walk with laden 40 litre packs for a few Ks before slumping in their mini-coach. > Do NOT, under any circumstances, stay in the Deluxe Single room at Hostal Forest in SdC - it is unfit for human habitation unless you're an exhausted pilgrim > Is the Ingles the ugliest entrance into SdC? > queued for nearly 3 hours for my Compostela so didn't get to meet Faith for a second time (I got to the PH at 18:20 and left the pole nearby hoping somebody would take it) > the "Two Sisters" statue has been sand blasted and repainted > I lost both my national and my pilgrims passports somewhere in town (possibly Casa Manolo but they've not responded to my email) Faith, if you're passing could you ask? Pretty please. It's the name of Jeffrey Crawley. > Spanish passport control couldn't have been nicer (get this grubby pilgrim out of Spain!) > Her Britannic Majesty's BCA were outraged that I should attempt to enter my own country without a passport when I should have travelled 600km to see her Ambassador in Madrid. Sorry that's a LOT of rambling there! On a more serious note I found this a lot more psychologically challenging than the CF and the CP. Last Friday I saw just one other pilgrim who just grunted and powered on and yesterday another singleton who was literally aid back on a bench and taking his time. On the upside I lost an incredible 10 pounds in weight over 8 days - just a little bit less than the weight of my pack. I'll shut up and go to bed now, night-night everybody, night-night. [/QUOTE]
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