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Hi Bedspring, sorry if my post offended. The problem with forums, in my opinion, is that people ask inappropriate questions and receive answers to all the questions they didn’t ask. In your circumstance the best place to address your question would be Chase, Clarity and Barclays. They know who...
I don’t expect my barber to cut my hair for free. I don’t expect the mechanic who keeps my old jalopy running to do it for free. Why does everyone expect the multinational integrated banking system that can deliver them cash in the appropriate currency anywhere in the world to do what they do...
I can book that bus without a problem. The website works fine in English and Spanish. Try clearing your cookies or changing your browser.
That said it is unlikely that the bus will be full. At present one seat is booked, the one behind the driver so unlikely to be an actual booking. Most...
If you can find the original it might be useful:
Alarms should, of course, only be raised in alarming situations;
Zippers should not be used without the expressed permission of the wearer;
Velcro and plastic bags should only be deployed by experienced members of the BDSM community;
Whispering...
I think I’d find 5 days in a hotel room in Fisterra a bit of a challenge. There isn’t much to do once you’ve done it. 5 days in an apartment with a kitchen. I’d have a whale of a time. So much amazing stuff to be found in the fish market!! Otherwise I’d buy a light fly-rod and a few bits and...
Get yourself to the nearest Centro de Salud and get those properly assessed and dressed.
After that I would suggest throwing your current footwear in the nearest recycling bin. If they’ve done that to your feet in four days they don’t fit or suit your feet. How many days walking had you done in...
The old Boy Scout method of banging them on the tent pole or a smaller Scout’s head is not to be recommended but a cool tumble dryer with 3 or 4 tennis balls added may help. (Start it up and go for a walk. The noise is extraordinary).
Here, rambling southern Italy, I’m struck by how unique in Europe Spains inexpensive, pilgrim friendly accommodations are. Whether on the Via Peuceta, or the Coast to Coast through Basilicata we have seldom found accommodation, double room private facilities, sub €100. Tourist season hasn’t...
Gronze relies on its users to provide updates to information. It is, like this forum, a community. And then, as @Kirkie says, this is a holiday weekend. Prices will be elevated.
Andy, I’ve been in Italy for the last few weeks. Set off with an entire pharmacy it seemed. I noticed today that I’m down to the final 2-3 week supply. Though the reduced weight and bulk of medication doesn’t seem to have reduced my pack weight. Perhaps I should wash some socks 😉
I’m kind of...
Departing some short distance from this thread and definitely out to the fringes of this forum ( I won’t mind if this gets blasted) Several of our local “nature reserves” in Sussex are obliged to cull the deer that have multiplied to unprecedented numbers and wreak considerable damage in...
There is no “official” start to Camino. It begins where you begin. On the assumption that you are walking to Santiago and the old boy’s bones I’d suggest “go West” and buen Camino 😉
It’s interesting, the meat question, innit. Most will never have plucked and drawn a fowl, cached and skinned a rabbit or even scaled and gutted or filleted a fish. Fewer still will have shot the game or even caught the fish. Even fewer will have taken kine or swine to slaughter or checked the...
Not common but it does occur. A book left on a communal table may be appreciated or may provoke a frantic search for the owner… a note in Spanish and English “in search of a new reader” might avoid the maybe 😉
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