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  1. henrythedog

    Pilgrim stamps.

    If one had the time and ‘copy and paste’ skills (or could engage a passing teenager for the job) one could create a souvenir montage of suitable sellos. There are many to be found online and referenced in threads on here. This one may be a start...
  2. henrythedog

    Madrid-Uclès or Uclès-Madrid

    I think there are a few of us in contact with the very helpful Manuel. I’ve bought one of everything he’s selling, so might as well use it. To do the route as the C de Ucles - so ending in Ucles - is the obvious intent; otherwise it’s more properly regarded as the start of a C de Santiago...
  3. henrythedog

    6 Month Training & Weight Loss Plan for an Overweight/Plus Size Pilgrim

    You’re in good company. I claim it would make me harder to kidnap.
  4. henrythedog

    A bit of the Ebro

    I was wrong. I had been researching both Zaragoza and Lleida - having not been to either before; and had the two incidents (both of which were clearly tragic) conflated.
  5. henrythedog

    Lightweight Camino - Forum Input

    Anyone who weighs their passport is taking the job seriously. I think you’re missing your GHIC and perhaps some foot-care and basic first-aid. Your total skin-out weight at 5.5kg is impressive - aided by selecting some very good lightweight brands. Allowing for what you’re wearing and your...
  6. henrythedog

    Need a Pep Talk for the Climb from Combarro to Armenteira

    I suspect that the now-renamed Natalia will have her own story to tell how she beat Mum up the hill. You’ll be fine - it’s days like tomorrow you’ll remember. Bom Caminho
  7. henrythedog

    A bit of the Ebro

    Yes the bombing of the school by the Condor Legion was awful. Lleida was a centre of resistance in defence of Barcelona. A few days ago I saw that one of Zaragoza’s cathedrals (the Virgen del Pilar) has two of the three bombs which hit it in 1936 still on display. I suppose the German munitions...
  8. henrythedog

    A bit of the Ebro

    Mrs HtDs outstanding mind is rightly fully devoted to finding a non-allopathic remedy for a form of colitis rather than her usual preoccupation with ‘where the hell is he and what’s he up to?’ Ht(actual)Dog is delighted to be free from his servants for a week and lording it over what used to be...
  9. henrythedog

    A bit of the Ebro

    I’ve got the Camino Ebro next on the list, heeding @peregrina2000 ‘s sage advice to turn left(ish) at Zaragoza and take the Castellano-Arogonés link to the Lana rather than proceed more directly to Logroño. Although I’m generally OK with heat, wild horses wouldn’t usually get me walking in...
  10. henrythedog

    Camino miracles

    @fitmelissa: an alternate interpretation of the event is that you took someone’s glasses.
  11. henrythedog

    Con Niños!

    Take the Frances - you know your family better than anyone; but in your place I’d want more infrastructure than the C de Madrid offers. Stating the bleedin’ obvious as usual: it’s going to be rather warm in Spain in July and no matter how accustomed your 4-year old is to walking, 15k/day is a...
  12. henrythedog

    Collapsible hiking poles

    I seriously think ‘we’ ought to cease replying with any degree of certainty to this interminable question. I try (and often fail) to only give advice of which I am certain, erring on the side of caution- cf the passport photocopy question - but on the topic of poles, all one can offer is...
  13. henrythedog

    Bag storage in Santiago for 10 days

    Correos do bag storage also. Check the opening hours of wherever you store it with respect to your intended collection time and day. https://www.elcaminoconcorreos.com/en/luggage-storage https://casaivar.com/luggage-storage-in-santiago-de-compostela/
  14. henrythedog

    LIVE from the Camino BP on the Catalán, June-July 2024

    Mrs HtD and I stayed there for a couple of nights - on my own I’d be in the albergue. As you found, the food was average, the cost extraordinary (thus:take your own beer) - but the evening atmosphere during and after vespers - was great.
  15. henrythedog

    LIVE from the Camino BP on the Catalán, June-July 2024

    Couple of thoughts on Montserrat: Go to vespers, whatever your religion or none. Take your own beer. (To Montserrat, not vespers)
  16. henrythedog

    Security Warning On Via de Plata

    I’m on an early flight out of Manchester to Barcelona in the morning and I’m not looking forward to it tbh. It’s about time the alcohol licence was removed from British airports.
  17. henrythedog

    Do some people not get stamps?

    You’re really from New York? 😇 Don’t forget once you cross over the river into Spain: two per day.
  18. henrythedog

    Ride share Taxi share Thursday 13 June 2024 Pamplona to St Jean

    Have a look for rucksacks in the taxi queue and make your first friends on the Camino.
  19. henrythedog

    LIVE from the Camino LIVE from the Camino de Catalán

    Another splendid example of the real value of this forum to those of us for whom a Camino is a regular event. A detailed journal full of practical information. Once you’ve got the ‘can I take my poles in hand luggage’ and ‘should I really book ahead if I want three adjoining private rooms, a...
  20. henrythedog

    Plantar Fasciitis

    Work on stretching and massaging your right calf muscles. A lot.

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