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I always drink bottled water, on the Camino and while touring. Water treatment differs place to place and I definitely don’t have a cast iron stomach. So because my gut might not tolerate something in the municipal water with which locals have no...
Maybe, but she has found this forum where past pilgrims and even prospective ones have been helping each other for many, many years. We will help, but we need some help understanding how best to do that!
This reminds me of a nasty bug I got while visiting Spain back in 2009 with a friend. After 3 great days in Barcelona, we went to Malaga via train, then visited Seville, had breakfast at a cute little sidewalk cafe, and within 2 hours I was...
I have read reports of stomach issues quite a few times since I've been on this forum, and many have been from people walking on the Meseta. One thought I've read is that it could be related to water run off of the fields occasionally...
That kind of thing irritates me to no end! Same with on planes. I am the one who will hand a snot filled, coughing passenger on our public transportation a Kleenex when they are coughing in everyone's face. I even went to my doctor's office...
I suspect it's because vegetables--right or wrong--are considered "poor people's food." During the dictatorship years, the division between poor and rich was very stark, and the poor had little access to protein other than eggs and dairy.
The...
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