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    Tracking apps/findpenguins/Relive/ or just simple iphone/google maps

    Those with an Apple Watch can track the distance each day with a ‘walk workout’ and then share (by messages or email) the map it generates at the end of each tracked workout. The nice thing about that option (for those with the hardware) is that you can choose very selectively, and the data you...
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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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    Parador resumes the “free meal” tradition

    Au contraire! The lunch *is* special! Not for its gastronomic merits (it is whatever the staff will eat that day), but because it is freely given by the staff, at the “family table”, and demonstrates a level of generosity we are unlikely to see in very many places outside of this tradition of...
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    Canadian Pilgrims - Freedom Mobile Question

    Is it a flat fee like Roger's "Roam like home"? If so, it's $15 per day every time your phone connects to the infrasctructure. Far better to get a SIM or E-SIM.... anywhere from 15-40 euros for a month, depending on how many GB you want to buy.
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    Pork in Spain

    I think those are called Fallow Deer. And IIRC from Michener, they are not hunted. EDIT: ... Hmmm. Nope the European fallow deer is not so small. The small ones might be Spanish Red Deer, but I really haven't been able to get close enough to ID them, and I've not had a chance to ask a local...
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    Pork in Spain

    Beef and pork cheeks rarely feature on a "mid budget" menu here in Canada, but I find them regularly at the more 'gastro-pub' places where they will braise these cuts for hours (it's cheap meat, but requires labour and patience to be delicious so it can't fit easily on lower-priced menus in...
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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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    Transit to Bordeaux from Canada, and a note about the St. André Cathedral in Bordeaux

    ...to finish, but not at Urdax as planned and rather only as far as Ainhoa. People keep saying “oh, it’s well signed” but the Baztan to Pamplona is *not* well-signed. Perhaps if I had taken the Esplette detour it would have been better? But I did not want the extra KM on my day. Many of the...
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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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    Transit to Bordeaux from Canada, and a note about the St. André Cathedral in Bordeaux

    ...of getting ready for this trip that just didn’t go quite as well as usual because: trigeminal nerve headache for 7 weeks… shot my cognition, and I *gained* 12 pounds while doing almost nothing except lying on my stomach in the “recovery position”. I do not recommend it! May the camino heal...
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    Transit to Bordeaux from Canada, and a note about the St. André Cathedral in Bordeaux

    I would have thought so too! And clearly my second person today (who issued the stamp) was of the same mind. I have a rather interesting paper that I was reading on the flight over… detailing the tensions informing the trends in these credentialing requirements… a constant dance of aggravation...
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    Transit to Bordeaux from Canada, and a note about the St. André Cathedral in Bordeaux

    I took the risk leaving YYZ yesterday that the security personnel would allow my trekking poles as carry-on and that I would not get hung-up in the layover at Frankfurt. There was some lengthy inspection of my poles (collapsed FLZ Black Diamonds) and it was a little nerve-wracking but in the...
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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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