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[QUOTE="Umwandert, post: 1071934, member: 94324"] [B](4) How a dog almost ruined my camino[/B] After a week of hiking along the coast (actually the path barely touched the sea) I decided to spend a rest day in Ribadeo, the first town in Galicia. The reason was that I wanted to have enough time to visit a natural wonder: playa as catedrais, a beach with famous rock formations that look like stone arches of a mighty cathedral. I found that these formations can only be visited at low tide, which was around 2pm that day. This fitted perfectly with the train schedule of the FEVE, the small train, that connects most towns on the north coast. There are two train stations close to the famous beach. So I went there, the day wasn’t sunny, but the beach was crowded, I had to wade through knee deep waters to reach the most spectacular area. And of course I took pictures with my cell phone. Then it ran out of energy. I sat down on a rock on the edge and tried to recharge it with my power station. At that moment, out of nowhere, a dog approached and distracted me, so that my iPhone slipped out of my hand. It was only a brief moment and luckily it didn’t fall into the water, but onto wet sand. After that charging didn’t work. There was sand in the connection, my plug no longer fit. I tried to scrape out the sand, I blew air into the connector (which of course is totally stupid) and then it dawned on me: It’s not working anymore! My phone is my lifeline, my watch, my camera and my navigation system. It has to work on a camino. I feel lost without it. Panic set in and I left immediately, walked back to the road and to the Esteiro station (of course I didn’t know when exactly the train was going to leave as the timetable was in my phone). On the way back I picked flower stalks and blades of grass to clean the obscured connection. To no avail. Fortunately the train came just a few minutes after I reached the platform. 45 minutes later I was back in my hotel (no albergue, because I like it a bit more comfortable on rest days). Thanks to my laptop (I just can’t travel without), I found out that there was a telecom store and a PC repair shop in Ribadeo. But it was siesta time now, so I had to wait and calm my nerves. At around 4:30 pm I went downtown and discovered that the telecom shop no longer existed. The PC shop was open and I explained the incident in my mediocre Spanish (I now know phrases like ‘se cayo en la arena mojada” and “no carga mas!” which I will probably never forget). Two friendly guys took a look at my iPhone and told me to come back in 30 minutes. I left and went to an adjoining café where I ordered hot chocolate for my nerves. I have to admit, the wait was nerve-wracking. What if they couldn’t help me? I was already thinking about returning to Oviedo to have the phone repaired at the nearest Apple shop (or buy a new one, after all my Iphone was already four years old). To my great relief after 30 minutes I was told that my phone was charging again. They just vacuumed the connection, no need to open the phone. I told them that they saved my camino life. The bill was 5 Euros. I was so grateful that I bought a new charging cable. Looking back, of course I could have walked the camino by following the arrows only but I had gotten used to my buen camino app, which gave me a great sense of security on the Salvador. And I just love taking lots of photos on the go, without them I wouldn’t have the same good feeling. So that was my most shocking and at the same time one of my happiest moments on this camino. To be continued… [/QUOTE]
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