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    Transit to Bordeaux from Canada, and a note about the St. André Cathedral in Bordeaux

    ...to finish, but not at Urdax as planned and rather only as far as Ainhoa. People keep saying “oh, it’s well signed” but the Baztan to Pamplona is *not* well-signed. Perhaps if I had taken the Esplette detour it would have been better? But I did not want the extra KM on my day. Many of the...
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    Re: Current Lunch Prices

    … and while one might receive a whole bottle on the table, it is a bottle for the table… a single person is not expected to consume it all. The bottles are topped up on each turn-over from the house barrels and it’s easier for them in terms of service. Just like the ever-present bottle of...
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    Transit to Bordeaux from Canada, and a note about the St. André Cathedral in Bordeaux

    ...of getting ready for this trip that just didn’t go quite as well as usual because: trigeminal nerve headache for 7 weeks… shot my cognition, and I *gained* 12 pounds while doing almost nothing except lying on my stomach in the “recovery position”. I do not recommend it! May the camino heal...
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    Transit to Bordeaux from Canada, and a note about the St. André Cathedral in Bordeaux

    I would have thought so too! And clearly my second person today (who issued the stamp) was of the same mind. I have a rather interesting paper that I was reading on the flight over… detailing the tensions informing the trends in these credentialing requirements… a constant dance of aggravation...
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    Transit to Bordeaux from Canada, and a note about the St. André Cathedral in Bordeaux

    I took the risk leaving YYZ yesterday that the security personnel would allow my trekking poles as carry-on and that I would not get hung-up in the layover at Frankfurt. There was some lengthy inspection of my poles (collapsed FLZ Black Diamonds) and it was a little nerve-wracking but in the...
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    Conditions on Napoleon today (April 27)

    Maybe? It depends on whether I decide tomorrow to pop in an eSIM… It is more likely that I will do a summary at the end (when I get a SIM in Pamplona to carry on to other routes).
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    Cheap bank ATM fees?

    For the Americans.
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    Cheap bank ATM fees?

    Nope... totally *brutal*. It's been worse though... The year I lived in Dublin, my 600 euro bed-sit was costing me about $1100 a month -- and that was on SWIFT transactions! At any rate, I have never had anything to complain about really with the ATM fees. I recommend taking out 300 euros at...
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    Cheap bank ATM fees?

    Yes, but most banks charge a fee for the exchange. Where I live the fee takes it to about $1.53 to the euro, about 20 cents more per euro than the actual exchange rate. The only place with worse rates is the local international airport. It makes better sense for me to change money when I land...
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    Conditions on Napoleon today (April 27)

    I’m not there yet, but the forecast looks terrible. An acquaintance was up there 2 days ago having spent the previous night at Borda and walking out in the morning. Around mid-day he said the Napoleon was closed but he was already at Leopoder and had to make his way to Roncesvalles in awful...
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    Cheap bank ATM fees?

    $56 on 300 sounds like the exchange rate, not the ATM fee.
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    Best weather app for Spain?

    I use the weather network app. I can preload all my stopping points and get a local forecast based on my location at the time. It is accurate and, unlike a website, it requires no browser navigation.
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    Backpack is 2 kg too heavy TwT

    Misuse of general guidance for *children* whose spines are still developing. About 20 years ago, when their backpacks started to be laden with heavy textbooks *every day* from a Calvinist notion that more homework was better for the lazy little turds, orthopedists fairly literally weighed in...
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    What should I do about calluses?

    Oh, I know what Compeed is *meant* for... but I've also found that if I am stuck in a situation and have a spot I want to protect, that the squishy cushion has always been brilliant and the other methods have been almost but not quite unfailing. Thanks for the recommendation. It would be nice...
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    What should I do about calluses?

    ...developed two small blisters -- roughly 3mm square on my toe pad (no callus there, but the blister was far inside the pad) and side of my first toe *under a callus*. I had used Foot Glide and had wrapped my problem toes with lamb's wool, but forgot about my first toes and about how hard I...
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    Dressy comfortable town shoes!

    Try the Uin shoes that I posted... because they are unisex for the most part. A Japanese man I met in Santiago was so enamoured of my kitty pattern that he went off promptly to order for himself.
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    Dressy comfortable town shoes!

    They have more structure than Tom's -- proper arch support etc. The upper is not floppy... And there are leather options if you don't mine the extra heft.
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    Dressy comfortable town shoes!

    I love a gorgeous shoe. On caminos I have to compromise, even as I want to eat in nice places sometimes, and go to art galleries and so forth… There is a shoe company out of Toledo, Spain called Uin. They make really nice canvas slip-ons that are wide in the toe-box so great for us walkers… And...
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    Advice for my language-challenged partner

    In a pinch, especially for when greater accuracy than “grocery store ability” matters, Google translate can be your friend. Use the microphone to speak into it, have it translate and then “speak” it back out.
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    Good snack for the Hospitales

    While we are at it: when anyone has the chance to stop in Campiello, stop at the larger grocer/restaurant there and whatever else you do, have the fresh cheese dessert with the blueberry compote. Outstanding! (And they taught me how they do it, so I can make a proximal version at home with St...

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