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  1. JabbaPapa

    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    Though truth be told, rain is now a LOT heavier, and I am glad to be indoors ...
  2. JabbaPapa

    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    Today turned into an interesting test for my re-soled and sadly no longer fully waterproof 2014 Camino army boots. It's the Western Alps here, but the rain today is somehow decidedly Pyrenean. Not cold, heavy drizzle, fine and constant -- and at the end of it my socks were and are still bone...
  3. JabbaPapa

    From just before Burgos - 47 friggin kms to find a bed!!!

    Modern social security systems are inherited from Mediaeval systems put in place in Hospitals for the ill, the indigent, the excluded, and the pilgrims. Indeed !! :) A complex comment, but yes indeed. Though there's the element, true to present day, of pilgrimage for deeper veneration or...
  4. JabbaPapa

    From just before Burgos - 47 friggin kms to find a bed!!!

    And even if not, you could : Shock !! Horror !! put your sleeping bag down and sleep outdoors !!
  5. JabbaPapa

    From just before Burgos - 47 friggin kms to find a bed!!!

    Pentecost weekend, so yes, a huge one. Also yes, the weekends in Burgos and León are perhaps best avoided. Good luck going forward !!
  6. JabbaPapa

    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    Nor does being intolerant and unwilling to learn how to deal with your own sleeping difficulties. Demanding that others pay extra €€€ for your own personal convenience is aggressive. And BTW just to be crystal clear I am not a snorer.
  7. JabbaPapa

    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    o_O
  8. JabbaPapa

    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    Of course it is.
  9. JabbaPapa

    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    Physical aggression against a sleeping pilgrim just because you are intolerant of snoring does not constitute "consideration".
  10. JabbaPapa

    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    Not in my experience. I've found that in the Albergues, frequently those who complain most about snoring are snorers themselves.
  11. JabbaPapa

    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    THE absolute worst snorer I have ever encountered was my dad. Do not project your own difficulties sleeping as something to blame others for.
  12. JabbaPapa

    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    This goes both ways, given that snoring is an involuntary natural phenomenon. Those who are very aggressive towards snorers are more problem than solution. There is a breathing technique to move beyond it, which is learn how to breathe in rhythm with the snorers ; then practice it until it...
  13. JabbaPapa

    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    It's turning real again, which is somewhat crazy, as I really, really did think it was done. My medication resupply plus my various supplements all came in again over the past two days, plus my new 100% cotton boxer short underwear which is the best I've had since my teens. It actually fits ...
  14. JabbaPapa

    Manjarin: Tomás Martinez de Paz, the last templar

    IIRC wolves are better at this than dogs. It's possible.
  15. JabbaPapa

    Manjarin: Tomás Martinez de Paz, the last templar

    Last time I came across him was, well ... He was walking one of his half-wolves, I said hallo to the "dog", it came up to me and started licking my hand, looking super happy. I've never seen Tomás looking more shocked !!
  16. JabbaPapa

    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    Our deepest wildernesses are in our bodies, minds, spirits, and souls. Venturing out into those wildernesses is never an easy trip.
  17. JabbaPapa

    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    Probably just revert to my old plan of walking with my 2014 boots, despite their lack of waterproofness, warped leather, and general damage. Soles and heels are still thick enough, and it's not a Winter Camino. I can still make a detour at about halfway through France to pick up a new pair in...
  18. JabbaPapa

    Manjarin: Tomás Martinez de Paz, the last templar

    He was up there in late 2022. This "not allowed" stuff is an old story, and whilst it was true for a while, AFAIK it isn't any more. He has shut down his donativo welcome mainly because there is a lovely young woman who has opened a business selling drinks and snacks in the village, and he...
  19. JabbaPapa

    LIVE from the Camino Camino home to home, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    My feeling is that this isn't happening ; and if not, I have no idea whatsoever why not. I have been called back onto the Camino anyway, as powerfully as I was in 1993 (three times), 1994 (actually in 1993), 2005, and 2014. This current Camino is rather complex !! And I still can't look at it...
  20. JabbaPapa

    Najera albergue reopens after renovation work

    Looks like still rows of bunk beds, but a lot better than it was -- they seem to have reverted to the originally intended number of them, instead of cramming in whichever maximum extra number they could possibly fit in !!

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