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  1. Kiwi-family

    Pacemaker Implant Surgery Tomorrow. A New Phase for Future Caminos.

    All the best Dave. Just this week I spent the evening at Tardajos with a relatively young woman who had a pacemaker and her 16yo daughter. They had been walking 30, 35, even 52km!!
  2. Kiwi-family

    fleece garment for summer Camino

    Many churches are cold even when it’s hot outside too
  3. Kiwi-family

    My knee has given out. Need a place to recover for a week.

    Another option if you come right would be to start at Burgos and do short days. Or from Porto. Both of these stretches are mostly flat. Remember how you are today is not how you will be in a month.
  4. Kiwi-family

    My knee has given out. Need a place to recover for a week.

    They will definitely have room! It’s an enormous place with only nine nuns (that I saw in a week) and only two other pilgrims came for one night each - and there were at least six rooms, possibly more. Glad this may help you. Incidentally, Lorca is the closest village if you wanted to bus to...
  5. Kiwi-family

    My knee has given out. Need a place to recover for a week.

    Once you have had medical help, if you just need rest, I can highly recommend the Monasterio de Alloz not far from Pamplona. Private room with bed with sheets and towels and three Spanish meals a day, €40 You are welcome but not required to attend services with the nuns
  6. Kiwi-family

    Dentist in Burgos

    I know I can Google, but I am also interested to hear if anyone has a specific recommendation for a good dentist in Burgos. I am a few days out from there and seem to be developing a toothache so if it doesn’t resolve itself I will probably try to get it checked while I am there. Thanks
  7. Kiwi-family

    Part 2. Ziggy, Me, and Rosti to the Wiffletree. Comes Perambulation, Articulation, and Tauredunum latterly.

    You sound very much like Jimmy Michener himself! And Socrates. Love it.
  8. Kiwi-family

    Overcrowded Camino Frances

    There were at least 20 mattresses in the Fronton - I’m sure they could have stayed there, but regardless, they could not stay at Ventosa. Clearly some of the in between stages are filling up. I spent an afternoon plotting out the next week - and checking that I could get accommodations t the...
  9. Kiwi-family

    Overcrowded Camino Frances

    Last night I had a booking in Ventosa. Two ladies I had been walking with did not have bookings and even though they were the first to arrive, they did not get beds because this “in-between stages” place was fully reserved. They rang every place on Gronze in Najera, but they were all completo so...
  10. Kiwi-family

    My Buen Camino app is crashing!!

    Me too today in Spain!
  11. Kiwi-family

    Which route out of Ourense?

    We stood at the spot with two arrows on the ground and tossed a coin. Literally. We went steep.
  12. Kiwi-family

    Monasterio de San José de Alloz

    I was not planning on being on the forum while I am walking, but I want to highly recommend this monastery. I have just spent a week here, although it is more common for pilgrims to just spend one night (during the week a French and Spanish pilgrim did exactly that) You get a private room with a...
  13. Kiwi-family

    Tomorrow is the day! Yesssssss!!!!!!!!!!!

    See you in Pamplona for breakfast! I’m one eleven hour flight down and have made it to Singapore. Another 11 hour flight which has been delayed and hopefully I will make my connecting flight to Madrid!
  14. Kiwi-family

    Achilles heel flare up and 5 weeks to go :-(

    After walking caminos where I comfortably tackled 35km, 40km, imagine my consternation to get tendinitis in both Achilles and not be able to walk even 1km! That was six months ago and I’ve been doing strength exercises for the legs and gluteus maximus under professional guidance. No meds for...
  15. Kiwi-family

    Camino de San Salvador

    I’ve only walked it twice but both times had other pilgrims around each night. There are lots of arrows - hard to miss!
  16. Kiwi-family

    Locoid cream

    Is it possible to buy locoid cream over the counter in a pharmacia? It’s the one thing I might need - but most likely won’t - and if I knew I could get it easily in Spain I would not take any.
  17. Kiwi-family

    Metro-style map of the Caminos

    I think it’s very cool (is there a map that’s not to love?) AND at the same time I find an irony in walking paths being portrayed as public transport!!!
  18. Kiwi-family

    The one thing I should have done before I left for the Camino

    @JillGat are you for real? I had second thoughts about asking my husband to keep my sourdough starter alive - I want to be able to go on another Camino!! So I have dehydrated it and I’ve made half a dozen loaves of bread to leave in the freezer. The job I almost forgot about - freezing holds...
  19. Kiwi-family

    Basic necessities on the trail

    Someone is going to suggest you could just take all those things yourself and use a pack transfer service! Not intending to rain on your parade, just considering alternatives before you invest significant euros in this venture!! And maybe the title could do with being changed from necessities to...
  20. Kiwi-family

    The Future Path

    @MARSKA would you be comfortable deciding when you arrive? I haven't looked at weather forecasts, but now that you tell me the first ten days might be wet, I'll be so glad to be holed up in the monastery at Alloz for a week;-)

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