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  1. Kathar1na

    Hiking poles on the plane in Santiago!

    I am trying to stay clear of personal interpretations of aviation security law. This has always ended not in tears but in thread closure. In the greater scheme of things it does not matter much how an individual passenger interprets airport rules on this forum. What is of interest is how the...
  2. Kathar1na

    Hiking poles on the plane in Santiago!

    Thank you so much for this feedback, @Saranger. You are the second forum member who not only saw people with folded walking poles after the security lines at Santiago airport but even asked the security staff for confirmation that walking poles are now allowed as part of cabin luggage when...
  3. Kathar1na

    Ups and Downs on the Camino

    Jean-Jules Jusserand writes in his book that the royal licences for ship owners and captains to transport pilgrims to Spain or France were delivered initially for a certain number of ports, namely London, Sandwich, Dover, Southhampton, Plymouth, Dartmouth, Bristol, Yarmouth, Saint-Botolph...
  4. Kathar1na

    Hiking poles on the plane in Santiago!

    It would certainly be useful for their passengers if they provided such information. I don't find the website for the airport of Santiago particularly user-friendly. It does not really have a website of its own, their website is just part of the general AENA website that covers all Spanish...
  5. Kathar1na

    Hiking poles on the plane in Santiago!

    Did you mean to say that you were on 20 flights from Santiago de Compostela over 7 years and carried your poles through their security lines and it was never an issue and you are a pilgrim who does not need a cane in daily life? That would be a truly unusual experience. For a summary of the...
  6. Kathar1na

    Salvadorana, Saturday/sunday

    Just curious: Was it a local someone who told you that? Whitsun is a two-day public holiday in some European countries (this year it's on 19 and 20 May) but not in Spain at the national level and not in Oviedo/Asturias at the regional level as far as I can see. It is a Christian feast, not just...
  7. Kathar1na

    Hiking poles on the plane in Santiago!

    I've been following these forum discussions - poles and Santiago airport - for many years. I did not keep statistics but to me it feels like the overwhelming majority of comments in these threads were not made by people who arrived at Santiago airport and had their poles taken from them...
  8. Kathar1na

    Hiking poles on the plane in Santiago!

    The game is not competitive. It is a collaborative game: All the points will be added up. We ought to aim to keep the total to a low number. 🙃
  9. Kathar1na

    Hiking poles on the plane in Santiago!

    Let us not go there. Let us not even try ... 😅😅😅. The link leads to COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1546/2006 of 4 October 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 622/2003 laying down measures for the implementation of the common basic standards on aviation security. And as I saw immediately when I...
  10. Kathar1na

    Hiking poles on the plane in Santiago!

    Yes, somebody did so. It was forum member @Hopeful Pilgrim. I found the post that I had been looking for! It is dated April 20, 2024, so very recently. Here is the full quote and the link to the post: My husband and I posted our poles back to UK from Santiago. This was to avoid the security...
  11. Kathar1na

    Ups and Downs on the Camino

    I see now that this book is available online as part of the Gutenberg project: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/58530/pg58530-images.html The first edition was published in 1889. Quote: It must not be thought that these ships, carrying as much as a hundred passengers besides their crew on...
  12. Kathar1na

    Hiking poles on the plane in Santiago!

    Santiago de Compostela airport had a very clear policy that was enforced rather strictly, and they had put up extra posters specifically about poles that I had not seen in other airports: Poles were not allowed to take into the cabin BUT all airlines allowed you to check your poles for free...
  13. Kathar1na

    Hiking poles on the plane in Santiago!

    @Bedspring, as a fairly new forum member you may not be aware of the long discussions we had on this forum about walking poles on planes. It goes back to at least 2017 when I learnt the word scofflaw. The word and the discussions, especially about the meaning and practical application of the...
  14. Kathar1na

    Hiking poles on the plane in Santiago!

    @Levi, @roving_rufus and others, please please don't distract from the main topic. Don't dilute the thread with comments about poles in other airports. Don't even mention their names ... ;) This is huge: It concerns poles in carry-on backpacks when departing from Santiago airport. It appears to...
  15. Kathar1na

    Ups and Downs on the Camino

    I had to look this up: Thomas Rhymer lived in the 17th century and his Foedera is a collection of all the leagues, treaties, alliances, capitulations, and confederacies, which have at any time been made between the Crown of England and any other kingdoms, princes and states. It was an immense...
  16. Kathar1na

    Pork in Spain

    It had to look up the word galgo. This just shows the level of my ignorance about Spain, Spanish culture (including literature ;)) and the Spanish ways of life. So the galgo is the Spanish greyhound. And it is used for hare hunting. I guess that this thread does have the potential to turn some...
  17. Kathar1na

    Pork in Spain

    I don't know whether the deer population is threatening the Spanish forests but since you live in Berlin: Try to find an older German who watched TV on Christmas Eve 1971 and saw Horst Stern's Remarks about the red deer (Bemerkungen über den Rothirsch). Epic. It caused a huge public debate and...
  18. Kathar1na

    Question about Alsa bus tickets

    Thanks. I had another look for this bus trip on this date and with this departure time and I can't replicate what you report for your own purchase because the price remains the same for all languages.
  19. Kathar1na

    Pork in Spain

    FWIW: Rabbit and hare are not the same. I’ve never eaten rabbit (and probably never will) but I’ve eaten hare. Be careful and don’t bite on the shot (pellets). It can be as bad for one of your teeth as biting on a bocadillo. :cool: In Spanish it is conejo and liebre and in French it is lapin...
  20. Kathar1na

    Question about Alsa bus tickets

    What day was that? This would be quite unusual. I tried to replicate it for a few dates and the price at checkout was always the same for the same bus on the same day in the same category (15:00 departure from Bilbao): €57,86 - in English, in German and in Spanish.

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