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    Has Cafe con leche changed in Spain?

    My wife and I have been travelling to Italy for 30 years and noticed that the coffee quality there had deteriorated over the years. Then a couple of years ago we read an article in the NYT talking about this very point. In Italy, people were used to going into a bar and getting a coffee by...
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    Memories of internet cafes from 2004 and 2005

    There have been a lot of posts about how much the Camino has changed. Here is one of my memories. I walked the Camino Frances two successive months of May in 2004 and 2005. The first year there was this amazing new thing available: email. In 2004 there were scattered bars and albergues that had...
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    Two weeks from Burgos (May 2023) - reflections

    I second the motion about custom orthotics. I suffer from periodic plantar fasciitis and can attest that over the last thirty years having custom orthotics has helped more than stretching, rest, anti-inflammatories, and even steroid injections. Your foot changes, so you need to get new custom...
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    Training plan help - 10weeks from starting!

    Please don’t forget that walking the Camino is first and foremost an opportunity for a pilgrimage, not a sporting event. Most reasonably healthy adults can walk the camino without extensive training. I walked the Camino Frances in my early fifties with no special training. I had never before...
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    Strangest food & drink on the Camino

    I was in Ponferrada, and it was my last day on the Camino. I was in a restaurant and asked the waiter if they served any local Galician specialty meals. Yes, he said, we have “botillo”, so I ordered it. After it came to the table I had no idea what it was and it was challenging to eat, so I...
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    Mileage tracker

    The app of which you speak that’s built-in to the iPhone it’s not very accurate. Both my wife and I go on the same walk and our individual iPhones give different mileages. Somehow the iPhone estimates your mileage… it’s certainly not done by GPS.
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    Flying Ryanair from SCQ to Madrid

    Predicting if your flight will be delayed is not the right question to ponder. I think you need to follow the “How much would it suck if….” rule. Fill in “my flight to Madrid causes me to miss my flight to the US”. Everybody has a different answer to these questions. If you have lots of time and...
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    Descent into Molinaseca

    I just made the descent. I started on the trail and after walking about 30 minutes down the very steep rocky and dangerous pathway, I decided to walk along the road. It is a 2 Lane road and between 8:00 and 11:00 in the morning there was very little traffic and what traffic there was did not...
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