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    What to do and not to do in a Refugio/Albergue

    I found room ventilation quite a problem. Certain nationalities just do not like sleeping with windows open and been in situations (before covid) where it was stinking hot, at least 20 to the room and people kept on closing the window🙄😉
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    Wallowing in Self Pity

    same here only from Sydney and March departure! It will happen, 2021 it will be
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    Transport of bags on Via de la Plata

    You forgot the plastic bags
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    The pretending to be deaf scam

    this Morning On the camino trail from Sarria just before Morgade a group of young women were " working" the perrigrino's. They stopped people and asked them for their name and postcode etc so at first instance it looked like a Camino survey or whatever however they pretend to be deaf and than...
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    new Albergue La Finca in Poblacion

    Am in this 2 month young Albergue called La Finca just about 2 km after Fromista and I am impressed. 12 individual sleeping pods/areas very well done . upstairs with partitions and downstairs with dark curtains. Privacy...heaps of room for pack and other stuff, your own reading light and...
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    flat terrain

    My kneeproblems started walking the Camino. I have been resting in Burgos hence my question re flat terrain from here :-) Underestimated what going downhill can do to untrained muscles!!
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    flat terrain

    I'll have a look at the Gronze Webpage, thanks
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    flat terrain

    I have been having some knee problems. After a good rest I would like to start walking again but it will have to be pretty straight I.e no big hills.... I would like to start walking from Burgos. Any suggestions which parts I should try to avoid . thanks
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    bed bugs

    sorted! It turns out that the people from the Albergue I was staying in have an interest in the one they told me to book. Which is fine but not at the cost of bad mouthing another Albergue that turns out to be a nicely run, good spirited welcoming and clean place for perrigrinos. commercialism...
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    bed bugs

    I heard it from the people who run the Albergue I'm staying in. Competition can do funny things just wanted to make sure . thanks
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    the in between stages Camino

    thanks very much.
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    the in between stages Camino

    thank you for the information.
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    the in between stages Camino

    y you are so right, thank you will listen to the advice and love the quote at the end! all is going great
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    bed bugs

    I booked an Albergue/hostel in Navarrete but was told in the Albergue I am staying now that the place had a problem with bedbugs. Has anyone encountered any bedbugs in any of the Albergues/hostels in Navarrete very recently? Thank you for your info already. bon Camino hopefully without the...
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    the in between stages Camino

    I am planning to walk the Camino ex Pamplona. However I would like to walk stopping/sleeping in between the stages recommended by guidebooks. Any tips, ideas??
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