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    Finally: Booked my trip & some info for first-timers (&others...)

    Alex, I haven't posted for some years but your post kind of instigated me to reply. I was a total newbie when first on the camino way back then. - My son said to me (after retirement): "Mom, your life content cannot now be your daily walk to the supermarket and back". That was after my long and...
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    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    Hello WheelChairPilgrim, Ivar, our lovely guru around here and site owner, posted a couple of years ago a link showing and explaining in quite some detail the challenges you might encounter on various stretches of the camino frances. It was accompanied by a great number of photos from the...
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    Police hampered in protecting us?

    Well, for what it is worth (and not camino related), when rather young, I and a girlfriend met a flasher/masturbatur when we walked in a wood (we used to walk there). Somehow we did not feel threatened - we kind of giggled and walked away. At a rather later time, I and another girlfriend sat on...
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    Alert: problems after Viana

    Just checked my notes, and can see I took a little sit-down rest there at the Capilla, benches being around (benches generally a welcome sight - at least for me). I also noted in my diary (what I intended as a funny aside in my notes), that pilgrims (mostly women) would regularly take a short...
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    Pablo Casals

    Scruffy, I actually heard and saw Pablo Casals in concert in Copenhagen as late as sometime between 1967 - 1969 (the exact year escapes me) - and he was certainly still going strong even though rather old at the time. He was totally alone on stage for the whole concert. It was amazing - and of...
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    How steep is the trail coming down from Alto de Perdon?

    I admit to not taking the descent from Alto del Perdon. Had a look down there and decided to circumvent it (have balancing problems going down - something with my eyesight also - cannot judge distance about where I am setting my foot. So I circumvented on a lovely road - no traffic, eagles...
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    I need to cut three days

    I will second that. Out of Leon, take a taxi or bus to La Virgen del Camino and then take the beautiful route to Villar de Mazarife (towards the left when the route splits). I would also suggest to avoid the long and tedious trek into Burgos. annelise
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    How do you pay along the Camino?

    As Falcon said, Claireabela. 'Upscale' restaurants will most likely accept cards (ask first) and probably most hotels, but not smaller places - i.e. never albergues and in my experience hostales or B and B places. Some larger supermarkets (supermercados) in larger towns may accept cards - but...
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    On vdlp for only 5days and the skin peeling off, unlucky

    Backiej, sorry, but the only advice I can subscribe to is to drink lots of water. - It is on old women's tale that cinnamon will help lower your glucose numbers (the theory has been shot down again and again ... - and never heard about the coffee theory. Sorry, I know we should not give medical...
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    On vdlp for only 5days and the skin peeling off, unlucky

    Rajy, oh my dear - so sorry for you. You - being diabetic - are probably already very well aware that foot sores (and any sores at that) may take a long time to heal (meaning risk of infection and further calamities). (Am a diabetic myself). Please take the advice of any doctors you see, and...
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    Euro's and Dollars

    I carried two credit cards too. - One (the back-up card) was deeply ensconced in my backpack, which I would regularly leave in the albergue - so short of walking off with my backpack, it would have taken some lengthy search to get to it - and I believe that such an activity would have been...
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    Walking after hip replacement

    In Ledigos (after Carrion de los Condes) I met a 70 year old British doctor walking with his long time buddies - said he was out testing his replacement hip and two new knees ... He told that in order to not be a potential burden to his companions, he always made sure to carry the phone number...
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    The Meseta

    I for one loved the Meseta. Had gotten the impression – before walking – that it would be flat, flat … and boring - but it was certainly not so. Lovely views, lovely high skies, lovely ambiance in flowers and surrounding fields. And certainly not always flat! The only time I was a bit...
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    Pilgrims told not to poo on Spain pilgrimage route

    When walking out of Burgos, I thought that I would find a café along the road. Alas, not so! – Walking down that long avenue along the Universities on one side and a walled park on the other side, I came in dire need (only a # 1). I even thought of invading one of the university buildings. But...
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    Robbery on the VdlP? What kind of protection?

    So if you are carrying a pepper spray - illegal or not? I would suppose you would feel the need to carry it in your hand all the time of walking at a perceived 'dangerous' stretch in case a 'situation' came up? - in order to not need to dig it out of your backpack or whatever ... And then...
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