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A couple of my Camino friends have posted Facebook links to this song by Sean Hampton today. Those of us who spent Covid lockdowns here in the UK are probably very familiar with the strange phenomenon of the sudden popularity of sea shanties at...
I’m sorry you were subjected to this disturbing behaviour but glad that you escaped unharmed. I worry, however, that carrying and brandishing a knife on the Camino could provoke a violent response.
Have a look at 'Microsoft Translator', it splits your smartphone screen in two, the bottom is where your conversation appears live and on top which is upside down to you will display what you spoke in English to Spanish AND VICE VERSA!! Very...
James,
If the moderators deleted every thread which duplicated a previous one, there would probably only be a dozen left.
‘Can I take my poles on the ‘plane?’ in itself occupies half the server space.,
It is not usual for someone to steal your pack, shoes, rain cover, etc. It can and does happen, but it is not usual. As a hospitalera in smaller communities it has never happened where I was volunteering to my knowledge. I don't lock up my stuff...
I got to Logroño in the torrential storm on Saturday. I stayed in the albergue municipal and while the staff were fabulous, on the Sunday morning some women waited for me to go to the toilet and while I was gone they stole the rain cover for my...
You can afford to drink till 1am
Get over it, and yourself.
I was shaken violently awake in the Albergue in Samos by a woman shouting “Snoring, snoring”. I didn’t punch her in the nose but did point out that I was wide awake and the snoring...
" I was, and still am angry, no, apoplectic with rage.... Either way, he's lucky I didn't break his jaw.
And then later you say that your on pilgrimage, not a holiday. A pilgrimage is undertaken on religious grounds. Whatever happened to...
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