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  1. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Be careful with phones.

    I was reading VERY recently that some phones can detect the jerking motion and lock the screen instantly. It may have been on this thread but I couldn't find it here (apologies to whoever posited it) but it could have been on another thread (or elsewhere).
  2. Rick of Rick and Peg

    How the Camino has changed for me

    What a great way to do the walk. On one of our local walks we had a short chat with a woman walking the other way. She was a therapist who walked with her clients (alone that day). She found conversations flowed easier walking.
  3. Rick of Rick and Peg

    How to choose shoes?

    I know you are using New Balance as an example. Many people love them. I want to say that over 50 years I've bought three pairs hoping for the best after what happened to my first pair. The quality of the shoes are the worse for any product that I can remember (other than stuff ordered through a...
  4. Rick of Rick and Peg

    How to get the soap residue out of socks

    This sock company has a substantial webpage on sock care, washing (by hand and machine), drying and storing. https://www.qforquinn.com/blogs/news/how-to-wash-wool-socks Looks like @C clearly knows what is going on; here's a snippet about mistakes to avoid from the webpage: Aggressive Rubbing...
  5. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Zubiri hazardous path

    @Peregrinopaul posted pictures of the rocky path down to Zubiri and also discussed its geology in another thread similar to this one. Paul has seven pictures in the post linked to below and another picture a few posts earlier...
  6. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Orange Problem With US Iphones

    I think this video does a pretty good job introducing you to SIMs and eSIMs. Click either the linked id or the video title to get YouTube in all its glory or click the red and white arrow logo to see an embedded video. YouTube video id: O6C4iWsQcgo
  7. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Zubiri hazardous path

    We walked it in 2015. I didn't think it a problem at all and said as much a year or two ago in a thread about how bad it was. Then I saw some pictures. :eek:
  8. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Re: Galego and Spanish on the Camino Frances

    It's a good thing there's no passport control or else you might not ever see Portugal again. ;)
  9. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Pilgrim House Meet & Eat for pilgrims finishing the Camino!

    It's Nate's party and, of course, Faith is there.
  10. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Which apps for family to track me

    Airtags are one way for people to follow you if you and they have iPhones. They can setup one and give it to you. Your phone and other iPhones would be reporting its location. Buy three, one for you to carry and family to track and put two in your pack for you to track in case of theft or...
  11. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Is Novellana on this route? I’m walking from Santiago to Muxía and then on to Finesterre.

    Thinking that there was a mistake in the name that got you a reservation in Asturias instead of Galicia I Googled for the hotel name but adding Galicia to the search terms. A paid ad brought up the place in Novellana but otherwise Google wanted to use Forno instead of Fornon. Too many places...
  12. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Re: Galego and Spanish on the Camino Frances

    Often you may read that Gallego is a dialect of Portuguese but more accurate would be that the two are sister languages with a common mother (and somewhere in the family is Spanish).
  13. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Pork in Spain

    One of several etymologies for Spain comes from a Phoenician name meaning land of rabbits.
  14. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Which apps for family to track me

    If you want to report your location, but not constantly, you can download an app that gives you latitude and longitude coordinates and the ability to share them through email, whatapp, etc. Done once in a while when you want it will only use a fraction of your cellular data. Usually you can add...
  15. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Older Couple 1st Time. Need Advice

    As mentioned earlier the Chrome browser will notice that the webpage you are visiting may need translation and ask if you want the translation. Very helpful but many people do not trust Google and so don't want to use Chrome. Other browsers will translate for you also but don't offer; you have...
  16. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Forecast arrival of pilgrims in Santiago

    You have one dependent variable, arrivals in Santiago, and many independent variables that affect the dependent variable such as time of year. From this you want to find a mathematical formula where the input varables yield a result. Look to regession analysis. Click fo Spanish Wikipedia...
  17. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Getting from Oviedo to Somport

    Go to the Aragonese sub-forum and check the dates for each thread. This thread has been created or placed in that sub-forum as can be seen by the link appearing above the thread title up top. https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/forums/camino-aragones-somport-pte-la-reina.33/
  18. Rick of Rick and Peg

    LIVE from the Camino Chrissy on the Camino Sanabrés

    Thank you. I actually spent some time trying to make it simple but that's really the work of tech writers. I know I have trouble with buts, howevers, in case of, etc. I do fight this. Yes, ignore my examples of file size and photo size savings and you see that it's do an intial app setting to...
  19. Rick of Rick and Peg

    Safe walking route down to Molinaseca

    I haven't but I thank you for your report. If I do walk the CF again I may still take this trail but now knowing that it may make me wish I was still in my backpacking years.
  20. Rick of Rick and Peg

    LIVE from the Camino Chrissy on the Camino Sanabrés

    Chris, I'm so glad I asked about your pictures. I know how to speed up your processing with an app. I've used it myself to send copies of photos to the forum where the longest side will be 800 pixels (I noticed that your photo of the chickens was a 720x320 PNG file with a file size of 515 kb)...

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