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Hi Laurie:
Take a look at the specifications written on the side of the chargers. There you will find the information of the Input Voltage (that’s the voltage provided from the wall plug) and the Output Voltage, since these are phone chargers...
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We are on the Camino and wanted to warn our fellow travellers to stay away from O MUINO camping/ bungalow Park.
They have signs on the road from Mougas saying pilgrim breakfast available, claiming to be the last one before Baoina.
There are...
Flew in yesterday to Sevilla. My driver is a fellow Pilgrim. He was totally thrilled when he found out my plans to walk the VLP. He has done 3 Caminos by Mountain Bike. His first ended in a crash where he ended up with a fractured skull...
I am about to walk the Via de la Plata from Seville to Santiago de Compostela. This thread is more than 10 years old, and seems to be fairly accurate from the bits of information I have found searching this forum.
I'm arriving at Madrid Barajas...
After the terrible few kilometers along a busy road and dangerous crossings, we got on the path to Guillena. After a few hundred meters we got to the bifurcation: the road to the right avoids the crossing of the Arroyo de las Molinas. Because...
Husband and I started from Sevilla on the 22nd March, we arrived in Merida today. The weather up until today has been cold and wet, we skipped the following sections Monesterio to Fuente de Cantos, Fuente de Cantos to Zafra and Zafra to...
For those of us on a budget the taxi may be easier but it is alot more expensive. 33 Euros is usually more than I spend in a full day on the camino. It is actually really easy to use public transportation. If I can figure it out without much of a...
You can either take the metro or the commuter line trains, which are called Cercanías. The commuter trains are much faster and have no pickpockets, but they only stop at T4. If you are flying Iberia, or an Iberia partner, you will fly out of T4...
I enjoy the different styles of ordering beer across Spain. For draft beer, I always prefer to order a caña. The size varies in different areas and if I want more, then I order another. Each one often comes with a small tapa.
For bottles...
According to Chat GPT:
In Spain, when ordering beer, you'll often come across three common terms: "copa," "caña," and "jarra." Each term refers to a different serving size of beer, and they vary in quantity and sometimes even in the type of...
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