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  1. Margaret Butterworth

    San Anton albergue (Castrojeriz) closes till further notice

    <<<< That's me on my first Camino on 02/05/2014.
  2. Margaret Butterworth

    New Camino Movie -The Way My Way - World Premiere

    Does anyone know why this film is not showing in Perth when it opens on Thursday?
  3. Margaret Butterworth

    Carry-on packs

    Not much has been said about weight. Emirates say "under 7 kg". My pack was 6.5 kg, so I was allowed through at check-in. They didn't look at size, but I knew my dimensions were under the limit. My problems came at Perth airport's security X-ray. Something was detected and the officer unpacked...
  4. Margaret Butterworth

    Manjarin: Tomás Martinez de Paz, the last templar

    https://caminoconfidential.blogspot.com/search?q=manjarin A nice photo of him towards the end of my blog entry.
  5. Margaret Butterworth

    Money taken from my Cash Passport! ☹️

    This year I travelled to Spain with both a WISE card and my usual bank credit card. This was handy when I wanted to pay for a visit to an important monument. The Mastercard system was down throughout the area, so my Westpac card was useless. Fortunately WISE is with Visa, so I was able to use that.
  6. Margaret Butterworth

    Has the dog “policy” on the Camino changed?

    I have just returned home after a month touring Andalusia. It struck me that there are far more pet dogs in Spain than there used to be. I stayed exclusively in hotels. One place allowed dogs in certain rooms on the ground floor, but I noticed that the owners were not allowed to sit in the main...
  7. Margaret Butterworth

    Message from the Roncesvalles albergue - a difficult day.

    If 25% of people staying at Roncesvalles (as suggested above), then it seems likely that they have NOT walked over the mountain, but arrived by some kind of transport.
  8. Margaret Butterworth

    Message from the Roncesvalles albergue - a difficult day.

    On the topic of long queues to get into the Albergue at Roncesvalles: this is my observation: I was there a few years ago, cold and tired and with a reservation. The problem was that only ONE official was processing people. This accounted for the slow-moving queue. The volunteers could do...
  9. Margaret Butterworth

    New Camino Movie -The Way My Way - World Premiere

    It can be done!! These two public toilets are on the beach at Fuengirola.
  10. Margaret Butterworth

    New Camino Movie -The Way My Way - World Premiere

  11. Margaret Butterworth

    Snow in Navarra, currently, or at least a few hours ago...

    Not walking the Camino this year, but I’m on top of the rock in Gibraltar where it’s nice and sunny!
  12. Margaret Butterworth

    Snow in Navarra, currently, or at least a few hours ago...

    Not walking the Camino this year, but I’m on top of the rock in Gibraltar where it’s nice and sunny!
  13. Margaret Butterworth

    New Camino Movie -The Way My Way - World Premiere

    And we need more toilets!!!
  14. Margaret Butterworth

    Bathroom stops on the camino for female Peregrinas

    I think this is mainly a problem for women. Men CAN manage quite easily in the open air. I once slipped over whilst trying to “go” quickly at the side of the steep track down to El Acebo and ended up with a bloodied nose. On the Le Puy Camino in France, I came across two public toilets, so it...
  15. Margaret Butterworth

    Bathroom stops on the camino for female Peregrinas

    In the interests of public health, there is a real need for public toilets along the Camino. With the number of pilgrims that are walking nowadays, the "Spanish custom" of using facilities in bars is no longer feasible. I want to suggest that this Forum should leverage its popularity to petition...
  16. Margaret Butterworth

    When Posting Reviews on Gronze . . .

    When you form an opinion - good or bad - it depends where you are coming from. When I worked in Singapore many years ago, I lived in an apartment provided by the university. An American colleague had his father to stay. He said "That's the worst shower I had in my life; the water just trickles...
  17. Margaret Butterworth

    RENFE April 2024

    Have a look at the iryo website!
  18. Margaret Butterworth

    RENFE April 2024

    I normally look at Rome2Rio first. This year I've booked via that site to Omnio and then paid for a ticket (Madrid - Cordoba) on an iryo train which is much less than Renfe.
  19. Margaret Butterworth

    New Book - A Thirst For Adventure: On The Way To Santiago

    Now that I've finished the book, I have a couple of comments: 1) How could one man consume so much beer? 2) How could he remember the names of everyone he met?
  20. Margaret Butterworth

    New Book - A Thirst For Adventure: On The Way To Santiago

    This is the funniest book I've read about the Camino and I've read quite a few. I've even written one! I have to admit, though, that I'm one of those people with a book in me that should probably have stayed there (loosely quoting from Graeme Cook). I was intending to keep this e-book on my...

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