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Anyone ever heard of this? I took the picture 10 May 2015 in Luquin, on my way from Arróniz to Villamayor de Monjardín. I don’t believe it was an operating albergue at the time, nor has been since.
Irun is a village on the border to France, 133 kilometers from Luquin, on the north coast.
The...
Anyone aware of a downloadable GPX file for the "alternate" route from Irache through Luquin?
(Or any other alternates—but Irache to Luquin is what I am looking for right now.)
From 2015 to 2019, I passed through the Plaza Escuelas Trevijano in Logroño at least a dozen times. I thought this statue was of pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago. I even took a photo of the plaque without really paying attention to what it said. The Valvarenada is an annual 63-kilometer...
There are lots of posts about the language barrier, but it seems they get mostly advice on learning or coping. Few (seemed to me) mentioned that there really isn't one.
Native speakers of English were by far the majority staying in the Dutch-run albergue I worked in, and the majority of others...
This has happened several times recently. I log in, read some posts, and reply to one of them. But it then says "you have to login first." So I log in again, and then my post is there twice.
I was standing near the Irache wine fountain. A group got out of a van, and the lady leading came up to me and said in Spanish, “I heard the fountain isn’t working; do you know anything about that?”
I pointed to the sign in Spanish and English that said they put in only a hundred liters a day...
I've read here and in other places complaints about exchange rates. Two suggestions:
1. Before starting, get a debit card from one of the banks that refund ATM fees. Schwab bank is mine, but I know there are others. In each city, get enough cash from an ATM to last till the next city big...
A complaining post by someone who gave up at Alto de Perdón included:
"- the bicycles are out of control. There were a few cyclists with shells on but there were far, far more local cycle clubs using the Camino trail as a training route. Why do none of these bikes have a horn or a bell to warn...
In 2016, 15 pilgrims are recorded as arriving in Santiago por vela. Academy dictionary seems to say that is by sailing. What does it mean? Page two of the official statistics.
Rome2Rio tells me that to go from Andorra to St. Jean, I should take three buses: Andorra to Toulouse, Toulouse to Bayonne, and Bayonne to St. Jean.
The first two were easy, but for Bayonne to St. Jean, they mention both Conda and Alsa. Conda's website redirects me to Alsa, but Alsa does not...
http://www.overlander.tv/the-way-camino-de-santiago-download/
75 minutes
I saw another web page where the creator said he'd like more people to see it but hopes you won't skip the ads because they will help him afford to do more films. I wanted to put that URI here, but for some odd reason...
We call the person who checks you in at an albergue "hospitalero" or "hospitalera." As far as I know, there is no good English single-word equivalent. Is there a one- or two-word equivalent in Korean? Not looking for an explanatory phrase; I can do that myself. If there isn't one, no problem...
Have a sleep sack and treat it with DEET twice a month.
Don't like the smell of DEET? Don't blame you. Treat it with permethrin daily.
Still getting bit? That's because permethrin doesn't work. (Or at least that's what some researchers claim.)
See this...
After reading several (actually many) posts about how different people prefer to do a Camino, I thought I should share a story from last year.
I was standing near the wine fountain in Irache. Lady comes up to me and asks (in Spanish), "I heard it wasn't working. Do you know something about...
Details of Hogar Monjardín are out of date. Says updates should be in "this forum thread," which is a link but doesn't go to any thread, only to the main forum page. Where should we update?
(It is the nature of such things to change, and keeping them accurate is a difficult job. I have seen...
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