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PCheck No. 23: "palo" means tree in Costa Rica, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. And No. 24: "palo" means shot of drink in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic & Venezuela. https://dle.rae.es/palo RAE doesn't...
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PThe OP asked about spoken Spanish in Spain and I hope she won't mind a bit of thread drift into written Spanish in Spain. I quite like writing peregrin@s although I am convinced that about 99,9 % here will think that it is a typo. 😅 In German...
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PPerambulating Griffin reacted to Xose's post in the thread The Camino for LGBTQ with
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Hello, my name is Xosé and I am doing a research on LGBT people who have done the Camino. I would be very grateful if you could help me through your experiences. If possible I would like to interview you, privately online. Regards -
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There is no science behind the 10% guide that is applicable to hiking adults. It’s from a recommendation years ago for the weight of kids school bags. And it tends to be mentioned by people who have never done multi-day back country hiking... -
PPerambulating Griffin replied to the thread Backpack is 2 kg too heavy TwT.Misuse of general guidance for *children* whose spines are still developing. About 20 years ago, when their backpacks started to be laden with heavy textbooks *every day* from a Calvinist notion that more homework was better for the lazy little...
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PPerambulating Griffin replied to the thread What should I do about calluses?.Oh, I know what Compeed is *meant* for... but I've also found that if I am stuck in a situation and have a spot I want to protect, that the squishy cushion has always been brilliant and the other methods have been almost but not quite unfailing...
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PPerambulating Griffin replied to the thread What should I do about calluses?.....So... last week, on a training hike of 28K, I developed two small blisters -- roughly 3mm square on my toe pad (no callus there, but the blister was far inside the pad) and side of my first toe *under a callus*. I had used Foot Glide and had...
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PPerambulating Griffin replied to the thread Dressy comfortable town shoes!.Try the Uin shoes that I posted... because they are unisex for the most part. A Japanese man I met in Santiago was so enamoured of my kitty pattern that he went off promptly to order for himself.
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PPerambulating Griffin replied to the thread Dressy comfortable town shoes!.They have more structure than Tom's -- proper arch support etc. The upper is not floppy... And there are leather options if you don't mine the extra heft.
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PPerambulating Griffin replied to the thread Dressy comfortable town shoes!.I love a gorgeous shoe. On caminos I have to compromise, even as I want to eat in nice places sometimes, and go to art galleries and so forth… There is a shoe company out of Toledo, Spain called Uin. They make really nice canvas slip-ons that...
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