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I think that it's easier to organize by yourself, because you don't have to worry about anyone else's wants and needs
The higher route is closed until April 1st, so you will be taking the route via Valcarlos. That's one less decision that you...
I think everyone here has been in your shoes (so to speak!) at some point. I remember feeling overwhelmed many times when I was planning my Camino a few years ago. (I can also tell you that everything turns out to be pretty simple once you start...
I mistakenly did a google search for Buc-ees Beaver Nuts and though I learned that Beaver Nuggets are “puffy and crunchy corn with a brown sugar caramel coating,” I also learned that “Aesop's Fables describes beavers chewing off their testicles...
Thanks for that, but this is a maple syrup made in a maple grove near my Illinois town. The Spanish family I’m sending it to spent an academic year at my university, and we took trips out to Funks Grove when the bluebells were gobsmacking. It...
I have posted this before, but it bears repeating.......
I can't emphasis enough how important it is to report these incidents to the local law enforcement. Many times crime victims fail to report these occurrences for a multitude of reasons...
The albergue is run by the Confraternity of James of Perugia, Italy.
(https://www.fundacionjacobea.org/en/ways-of-santiago/san-nicolas-de-puente-fitero/ )
They take their religious service pretty seriously, do NOT confuse the foot-washing rite...
Positive. It may have been late April or very early May. It had only just opened early for the season that year; the guidebook had said it should be closed.
Dinner and breakfast was by candlelight, the clotheslines were to the left of the...
I stayed there in April (or May) 2018, there was a man there then who would only offer to massage the women’s feet (he disappeared everytime a male asked), and would very much so take liberties with his hands so far up thighs while doing so. He...
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