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I have had both a rain coat and an Altus Poncho. As long as it isn't raining a lot, the jacket with pack cover is OK. Last winter though it rained on me almost every day for a long portion of the day. I was glad to have my Altus Poncho with a synthetic puffer jacket underneath. I won't go back...
My experience is that there were more fruit and vegetable stores than regular supermarkets.
For vegetarian protein there are jars of beans, hummus, and even peanut butter (look in the child snack section) in the supermarkets.
I agree that the pilgrim menu can get quite tiresome.
Thanks for this. It sounds a lot like our first Camino, but interestingly enough we've been back 8 times now. Somehow the sprained ankle, the bilateral blisters, the searing heat, the food poisoning didn't put us off and we returned home with the sense of peace and belief in good people. The...
The bakers Susanna and Chuchi in Grañón gave us a huge paper flour sack ( the kind they buy bulk flour in, and told us to always store the bread in it. The same at Arrés, the baker at Puente la Reina de Jaca told us to store the bread in the paper flour sack and offered us one for the albergue...
I have given another pilgrim money for a bed and supper more than once. I did it knowing I might never see the money again. When I give like that, I understand that once the money leaves my hands, I have no controll on what the other person does with it.
One pilgrim got to Orrison thinking he...
I agree and disagree. I wouldnt expect someone to bring me a lost item, but I think it does happen that people are reunited with lost things from time to time due to the kindness of strangers (even in everyday life). I think people post queries here to get the collective mind and wisdom on how...
Do you need to end in Santiago? If you don't, just start somewhere easy to get to from Barcelona and start walking. Travel will eat into the pilgrimage if you travel to Madrid and back and you will want to be somewhere easily accessible to Madrid of you plan to go to a concert. That's more...
Not many details provided here as to the circumstances. Our cattle usually only did this if provoked such as territory or calves threatened. Certainly they are large mammals and can inflict serious injury and deserve respect.
Sometimes we encourage newer members to "use the search function" for a topic that has had many conversations such as bed bugs, shoes, socks, poncho vs raincoat, hiking piles, to book or not to book, bag transport, etc. But the search function isn't all that helpful and mainly people just want...
Well no, didn't get back on time, one officer, one NCO, and one civilian, but only the NCO was disciplined and she was put on a detail to supervise flag raising each day at dawn for a month.
I slept on the floor with 2 other nurses in Stansted 20+ years ago after a crazy story about missing a flight at Bornemouth and taking a bus to London and a cab to 2 airports trying to get back to Germany so we could be on duty the next day at the US hospital and not AWOL. Used some UK wool...
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