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[QUOTE="Paul S., post: 636834, member: 74482"] Bedbugs are a pain - or so I hear. I've never had the displeasure of actually meeting any, so I can't speak from experience. But I DO have one anecdote on these critters I'd like to share. One afternoon, while staying at the albergue in Luarca, I noticed four rather posh gentlemen entering the dormitory to take a look at... well, at how the other half lives, I suppose. You know, slumming it, so to speak. We talked a bit and I found that they were curious about what a dorm would look like (and what kind of people would settle for such humble lodgings). They were doing the Camino too, but they preferred to stay at the better class of hotels. "I wouldn't want to be caught dead in an albergue like this. You know, there's no food, or if there's any it's inedible, and there's always bedbugs and such," one of them confided in me. "That's why we are staying at the hotel across the street." Now if there is one thing I've learned along the way, it is [I]à chacun son chemin[/I]: everyone has their own path to follow, and it is not up to me to judge. But I never noticed any inedible food, nor bedbugs, so I told him so. He just looked at me with in his eyes either disbelief or pity - I couldn't tell. Fast forward to the next day, around noon. I'm walking along and happen upon the same four gentlemen enjoying some rest in the shade of a tree. So we have a chat about the things every Camino chat is about: how are you doing, where are you going today, did you sleep well, where will you be staying, et cetera. Then one of them asks: "were there any bedbugs in your dorm?" I told him there hadn't been any, and he said "well, there were in my hotel room..." He had been bitten two or three times and had been up half the night trying to find and kill all the bedbugs in his room. "But look!" he said, and took a matchbox from his backpack. "I caught one!" He opened the box, but there was nothing inside. "Aw drat, the darn thing must have got away..."* Why anyone in his right mind would willingly and knowingly want to carry a bedbug in his pack is way beyond me. All I know is that at that moment I was [I]so [/I]happy these gentlemen preferred hotels over albergues... * I have toned down the expletives somewhat to protect the easily shockable readers. [/QUOTE]
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