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    How To Recognize a Fellow Forum Member While On Camino

    I Met Sunny on Camino, for the first time, think it was in Zubiri. She was either with her husband/brother. Some time after this first meeting, I bumpeb into the couple again. The talk was about weather and what happens when it rains. My response was the same one I'd given on the Forum months...
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    The alternative route down to Roncesvalles

    I actually think the Forest Route is beautiful. The risky part(I think) are those awful gulleys you have to navigate(I was forced to sit on the edge and slide down into the trench) in order to get going at all. It is pretty rough at the start, I must admit, but that's only at the entrance. The...
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    Arzua

    Arrived in Arzua while doing the SJPDP camino sometime in October 2018, Dragging my body like an injured animal - that's how exhausted I was. My Albergue, to make things worse, was situated on the furthest end of the town. The Albergue door was wide open, but no one manning the desk. I...
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    Are you 70+ and still walking Caminos?

    Not quite sure where to post this and the question! Do these steps lead to Pamplona? I reached this part after crossing the bridge and having coffee at the Cafe immediately after the bridge. I think my brains were surely cooked as it was a stinking hot day. All I really noticed was the sign at...
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    Are you 70+ and still walking Caminos?

    I walked the SJPDP Camino two months ago. I turned 78 years on the day I flew home after Santiago. Apart from breaking wrist bone on the second day of the Camino, I did just fine as I'm pretty sure so will you when you arrive at this same age. SO JUST KEEP ON KEEPING ON WITH THE WALKING. Buen...
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    Are you 70+ and still walking Caminos?

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    Swollen Feet = Blisters

    Was very painful I must admit. But I didn't want to make a fuss over a "sprain!" I just don't use medication as a matter of course, so soldiered/pilgrimed on. After Santiago I bussed into Portugal. When getting ready to come home, my Med Insurance insisted I see a doctor in Lisbon to be sure I...
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    Swollen Feet = Blisters

    I fell just before Reconcesvalles (21st September 2018) and hurt my left wrist, (broken, but at the time was told by Pamplona hospital it was a bad sprain) so lacing shoes was out of the question as wrist extremely painful. I traded my shoes for hiking sandals(they are very light weight even...
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    Swollen Feet = Blisters

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    Strange figures.

    OH? I saw bars and thought, perhaps a prison? Thanks for the explanation. I had asked Pilgrims about it and not answer was forthcoming. Even the manager of the Albergue where I stayed did not know. So thanks for putting me straight.
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    Strange figures.

    Yes, you probably did. The street is the same one I walked from what I recall. . But there were so many tourists just after this sculpture that I walked back the way I'd come.
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    Do ladies pee in the woods? I think we know the answer.

    Speaking of PEEING IN THE WOODS. I never realized that "wanting to use a toilet" in the middle of nowhere, (until I was on Camino) would be so difficult and that when you did get a very small gap(the Pilgrims ahead of you who seemed to be moving so slowly and the Pilgrims behind you were moving...
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    Cairns/stacking stones.

    I have also come across some cairns(actually pointed out by our guide) while on the Drakensberg, South Africa. These apparently put in place by Bushmen as grave markers.
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    Cairns/stacking stones.

    Some of my fellow pilgrims were very surprised I had not added even a single stone to any of the piles already in existence, really too tired and feel for sure I would have fallen over trying to pick up a pebble, especially when I had no idea why I should do so. I did stop to read notes...
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    Strange figures.

    Really did not look like a church building to me. The building has a small barred window too, and my first thought was, Aha, an old-time jail?
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