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    Sundays and public holidays

    Policy about shopping centres timetables are a competence of each Autonomous Community in Spain, each region and province has it own specific special day holidays. I guess you'll have an easy request if you look up in Google about the concrete province and autonomous community.
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    What are your favorite Camino misspellings on the forum?

    Dear @Pelegrin, Basque native speaker here, with C2 level by basque government's Habe organisation. Saying Bilboa has not any sense, although you are right saying the -a in euskera is the article, mugatzailea in Basque. It is a case of loan translation or calco lingüístico to say (el Bilbao -...
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    What are your favorite Camino misspellings on the forum?

    Much easier, Orreaga. Both in French and Spanish are by far more complicated to spell.
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    Language questions

    Just my thoughts but I don't think so. As we said, in Spain is a normal verb with no naughty connotations, so it is used normally and with everyone, even if you know how it is used in other countries.
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    Language questions

    Yes, makila is a common noun that simply means palo or bastón un Euskera, but means also that kind of ceremony pole that transmits respect or authority. Could be coincidence, but in Berria newspaper , in our only national newspaper in euskera (spread and red in both sides of the administrative...
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    Language questions

    Well, that "coger" subjet always appears when chatting with latin american relatives visiting their family at home land, specially if they are young and from countries where that word has sexual connotations. Many Spaniards do have relatives in America. But when visiting Spain, latin americans...
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    Language questions

    Hola, Spanish and Basque (C2 level )bilingual native speaker here. French and English speaker also but they are more broken in my mind 🤭. Poles are bastones in Spanish, in the same sense what and elder would use is a bastón, not a palo. Traditionally when refering to a collective of people...
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    Ordering beer in Spain

    This thread is funny... I am from the basque area. When I travel to another region on holidays I am as lost as you 🤣. In my area caña is 33 cl, zurito 20cl. Nobody asks jarra or pint, that's only foreigners thing. So when I am in Madrid after my first local caña I have to learn from the waiter...
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    Deba to Zarautz or Zarautz to Deba?

    Hi, I am a native from the province of Gipuzkoa. If you really want to do a walk in the Flysch you should be careful with the tides, think about doing it when the low tide is arriving at his maximum, can be a dangerous experience if you don't pay attention. I'd do it from Zumaia, walking in...
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    Beasain pilgrim's Albergue Hospitalero: OPENED FROM 11 MARCH 2024

    2b stage is mainly farm houses roads until Venta de Iturriotz before ascending to Zelatun. Yes you can cross some mud paths paths as well I think. Mud is an important feature in basque mountains. Ongi etorri Euskal Herrira, welcome to the Basque Country and Buen Camino!
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    Beasain pilgrim's Albergue Hospitalero: OPENED FROM 11 MARCH 2024

    Of course! I did for users of this forum as well
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    CAMINO VASCO through the hills and mountains, called SAIATZ trail.

    Hi again, Yesterday I did again Bidania -Beasain trail, and recorded in a Wikiloc track, my aportation for members of this forum aswell 😃, few asphalt. Took the bus TO 05 at 9:00 in Tolosa and I was already in Bidania 20 minutes later. Bus was perfectly in time. The track starts from Bidania's...
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    Beasain pilgrim's Albergue Hospitalero: OPENED FROM 11 MARCH 2024

    Hi again, Yesterday I did again Bidania -Beasain trail, almost no asphalt. Took the bus TO 05 at 9:00 in Tolosa and I was already in Bidania 20 minutes later. Bus was perfectly in time. The track starts from Bidania's church, follows the yellow arrows until Murumendi mountain and later after...
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    Seeking a Beautiful Traditional Basque House to Sketch

    @Camino Chrissy I hope this book reference can help. It is in french.
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    Seeking a Beautiful Traditional Basque House to Sketch

    I understand what you're saying, but that house with the red windows is still Lapurdi style for any of us. Let me explain: in the area where I live, in Goierri in Gipuzkoa, there is a house with a very similar style, which is called Sara, not by chance. Ordered to be built by the great...
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