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  1. Jeff Crawley

    Camino by skateboard?

    German phrase meaning "good luck" - sometimes used, so my actress daughter tells me, in the British theatre (but in English, of course: "break a leg!") often by the understudy to the star performer! 😇
  2. Jeff Crawley

    Camino by skateboard?

    So he's prepared, up front, to consider lying in order to get a Compostela? That's mighty big of him. Hals und Beinbruch! as they say on all the best pistes.
  3. Jeff Crawley

    Protocol: spending more than one night in an albergue

    Indeed, I remember back in 2001 an Australian hospitalera at Santo Domingo de la Cazalda who kept an elderly Irish lady there for three nights using the simple expedient of hiding her boots - Hester had undergone a double hip replacement and had dreadful blisters on both feet so there was good...
  4. Jeff Crawley

    Protocol: spending more than one night in an albergue

    We used the four bunk room halfway up the stairs at Guacelmo as the infirmary for stop overs: I remember a NZ lady with a stomach bug and an American man with the biggest blisters in Spain staying for more than one night but generally it's one night and then you move on . . . or go private.
  5. Jeff Crawley

    Do I really need a hat?

    It's 29 degrees inside the house, 39 degrees in the sunroom, 31 degrees outside, I'm on a 24hr fast for a medical procedure and am as bored AF . . . .
  6. Jeff Crawley

    Do I really need a hat?

    Of course there's always this . . .
  7. Jeff Crawley

    Do I really need a hat?

    Glad to see the meds are working Dave 😇 For those without the means to self-decapitate then protection is available with the head in-situ Foil Beanie
  8. Jeff Crawley

    Do I really need a hat?

    Oh grief yes!
  9. Jeff Crawley

    Low-hanging fruit

    It depends of country and crop of course. I live in Kent in the south east UK - the one time Garden of England. We don't have as many apple orchards as we used to but there are still a lot. Walk through one after harvest time and you'll see hundreds and hundreds of apples rotting on the ground...
  10. Jeff Crawley

    Tinned fish talk!

    You've just reinvented the Victorian dish of "Scotch Woodcock" (thought to be a joke name along the lines of Welsh Rabbit/Rarebit - aka grilled cheese on toast) Gently heat some anchovies in butter* and they'll kind of dissolve. Set aside for a bit while you're mixing the egg. Bring the pan...
  11. Jeff Crawley

    Tinned fish talk!

    Veering away from tinned to jars of fish, it was Iberian week at Lidl (UK) last week and I spotted a jar of anchovies. Not having had anchovies on fried eggs for a while I scooped up a jar . . . It was a struggle to open it this morning but look what it was like inside: as a Civil...
  12. Jeff Crawley

    Tinned fish talk!

    So true!
  13. Jeff Crawley

    Tinned fish talk!

    I do still have most of my teeth - except a couple broken by crusty French bread - my cruel behaviour stems from first eating sardines quayside in San Sebastian as a callow youth. I simply followed the example of the sardine fishermen having breakfast: freshly grilled sardines mashed up on fresh...
  14. Jeff Crawley

    Tinned fish talk!

    Spurred on by this thread I stopped off at lunchtime to pick up a tin of sardines in olive oil and ate them mashed up and topped with a sprinkle of white wine vinegar on a crusty baguette while sitting in the garden under a shade. It would have been better on a hot day in Spain, shaded by vines...
  15. Jeff Crawley

    Tinned fish talk!

    I always bought a tin of sardines in olive oil as a backup meal, mashed over fresh bread or even supermarket crispbreads, drizzled with the oil mmmmmmm and would get through perhaps 3 tins on a CF but sometimes a tin would "hide" in the bottom of my pack and make its way home. Come the Zombie...
  16. Jeff Crawley

    Low-hanging fruit

    I've told the tale before about getting distracted for 5 minutes at Rabanal and having a brand new pack of toilet rolls - all 24 of them - looted with just the plastic wrapper left behind . . . Hark, hark! The dogs do bark, Beggars (Pilgrims?) are coming to town; Some in tags, Some in rags, And...
  17. Jeff Crawley

    Low-hanging fruit

    Could well have been "Bordeaux mixture" - a copper sulphate and lime mix which was originally used to spray the crops nearest roads and footways to prevent passers by from sampling the grapes by making them taste sour - sound familiar? It also turned out to be good at controlling mildew . . ...
  18. Jeff Crawley

    Squeezing the last bit of juice out of a phone battery

    WOW! that's half a Camino Frances!
  19. Jeff Crawley

    Squeezing the last bit of juice out of a phone battery

    Some of you may be aware of this but it was new to me. While sorting out a problem one of my brothers had with his mobile phone I came upon this feature - it may come in handy in some circumstances - I was thinking of the poor lad who has disappeared in Spain, last heard of with a low phone...
  20. Jeff Crawley

    Low-hanging fruit

    I recall several wild apple trees in Galicia growing on the verge and outside of the property so considered them fair game but always recall the time that the UK stopped putting lead in our petrol (gas) and somebody asked: "Is it safe to eat roadside blackberries now there's no lead in fuel?"...

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