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    Is the Camino too crowded?

    Yes, I recognise the rarity, but it is information that continues to dissuade me from napping in the open, anywhere... *not even* in the "camino bubble"...
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    Is the Camino too crowded?

    At least it was to humorous effect this time!
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    Is the Camino too crowded?

    ...As compared to the past when we never booked *anything* unless one was perhaps taking a rest day in a city and needed something for the second night... Booking a day ahead is booking. For those who cannot manage Spanish on the phone, aren't carrying a phone, don't want to finance...
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    Is the Camino too crowded?

    ...say of this trip that although finding the true entry to the Trinidad de Arre albergue was most difficult, it was the most modest one I fell into *and* felt the most secure. It was extremely full, but I did see that one of the "rooms" (more like an appendix) had 2 beds in it. And while I had...
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    Is the Camino too crowded?

    ...and Ascension holidays, but also Whitsun and now... the rush that will come directly after that series of events. So June? which is bound to be *hotter*... I think that for me forever after, any camino will be started in late September or Mid-October. I've stated as early as Nov. 1 and that...
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    Is the Camino too crowded?

    Wish I were there! 2.5 weeks ago Cirauqui was full! I can't recall about Luquin. I did have peaceful walking time, but it was unusually hot in early May and many -- including self -- were having departure and quitting time constrained by heat. I think it created a kind of "squished accordion"...
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    Is the Camino too crowded?

    ...inclement conditions [hail, fog, and disturbed man in the woods near Sauraren) and with misleading signage after Souraide that tells one absolutely *not* to go in the direction of exactly where you want to go -- which would be Urdax), and having had to head home at Logrono for family reasons...
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    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    Off side a little bit, but I have wondered often enough how much of the touted spiritual enlightenment is a consequence of days and days of excessive physical effort and night after night of sleep deprivation. In this, the camino as it is done now is not unlike the conditions of a cult -- it is...
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    Snoring. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    ...the attached noise-maskers, paired with an App like "white noise". https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0BJTFFSRJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I was *shocked* when I had to run the white noise sound up to max to drown out a snorer in Villatuerte, but I was still able to sleep.
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    Re: Current Lunch Prices

    … and while one might receive a whole bottle on the table, it is a bottle for the table… a single person is not expected to consume it all. The bottles are topped up on each turn-over from the house barrels and it’s easier for them in terms of service. Just like the ever-present bottle of...
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    Conditions on Napoleon today (April 27)

    Maybe? It depends on whether I decide tomorrow to pop in an eSIM… It is more likely that I will do a summary at the end (when I get a SIM in Pamplona to carry on to other routes).
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    Cheap bank ATM fees?

    For the Americans.
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    Cheap bank ATM fees?

    Nope... totally *brutal*. It's been worse though... The year I lived in Dublin, my 600 euro bed-sit was costing me about $1100 a month -- and that was on SWIFT transactions! At any rate, I have never had anything to complain about really with the ATM fees. I recommend taking out 300 euros at...
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    Cheap bank ATM fees?

    Yes, but most banks charge a fee for the exchange. Where I live the fee takes it to about $1.53 to the euro, about 20 cents more per euro than the actual exchange rate. The only place with worse rates is the local international airport. It makes better sense for me to change money when I land...
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    Conditions on Napoleon today (April 27)

    I’m not there yet, but the forecast looks terrible. An acquaintance was up there 2 days ago having spent the previous night at Borda and walking out in the morning. Around mid-day he said the Napoleon was closed but he was already at Leopoder and had to make his way to Roncesvalles in awful...
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    Cheap bank ATM fees?

    $56 on 300 sounds like the exchange rate, not the ATM fee.
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    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    If we stop thinking only of the wealthiest women in the wealthiest nations (who are not at all representative of the global population), I would place the observation in the immediate tense. Do the poorest women of the world want to go on pilgrimages? Long explorations? We don’t know; they...
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    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    ...all that (and more — book-sellers barging into my campus office to flog their wares and asking when the professor would arrive — that was my first *15* years in the seat)… went to undergrad at a time when it was still thought to be something a young woman would do in order to marry...
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    What mountains are near O Cebreiro ?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra_dos_Ancares Perhaps this link will help… as it provides an over-view of all the mountain ranges in Galicia, and if you look at the map, read the description of locations of the ranges, and plot for yourself where O’ Cebreiro is, then the “in between Ancares...
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    What mountains are near O Cebreiro ?

    It lies *between* the Courel and Os Ancares. Here’s more information: https://www.usc.gal/en/servizos/eccourel/Paisaxes.html?action=detail&image=28

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