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A couple days ago I started the Camino Madrid from Segovia. Some of you may recall that I posted a few months ago looking for a relatively flat Camino to test out my body to find out if I could make another try on the Camino Frances where I had...
If you have a towel, roll the items to be ‘wrung’ in it, like a Swiss Roll, then with clean bare feet stand on and walk on the spot on the roll.
It’ll get a remarkable amount of the water out.
I have no helpful suggestions as to how to then...
I’ll describe the second incident also: the place I sought refuge to wait for the police was under a statue of the Virgin of Socorros about 300 meters from the abandoned house, in the middle of a roundabout. A man pulled up in a car while I was...
True. But it was my first full day in Spain and my mind was full of clichés. Spain? Bull??? At that point I still believed that Spain was all heat and dust and bullrings :-)
On one of my Caminos a calf had obviously gotten out of the fence; (he wanted to walk the Camino😅) and the mother kept mooing, obviously extremely distressed as she kept her eye on baby. A pilgrim we'd met, Leavin, picked it up and gently placed...
Something a little unusual on the Spanish news websites today. Two pilgrims forced to climb an oak tree to escape from a cow defending her calf. Apparently they called the Guardia Civil from their perch in the tree and the Guardia moved the...
Fortunately, I can call and talk and reserve a bed in Spanish. For the life of it, I do not understand why you won't make the small effort to learn this. Learning a small piece of a foreign languge will enhance your life and make it better.
But...
Avoid abbreviated dates when booking.
In Europe, 3/4 means 3 April, not 4 March.
That might be a problem if you are on the Camino on 4 March, and looking for a bed.
Write the month name to prevent misunderstandings.
While ‘cama’ does indeed mean bed and you will not be misunderstood if you use it as in this example, the term for a dorm/bunk bed in an albergue is ‘litera’.
Forget emails, you are more likely to get a reply if you use Whatsapp, in Spanish.
Mobile numbers in Spain start with +34 (Spain’s dialing code) followed by: 6 . . .
It’s very easy, using Google Translate:
I would like to book one bed for one...
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