Not much has been said about weight. Emirates say "under 7 kg". My pack was 6.5 kg, so I was allowed through at check-in. They didn't look at size, but I knew my dimensions were under the limit. My problems came at Perth airport's security X-ray. Something was detected and the officer unpacked...
This year I travelled to Spain with both a WISE card and my usual bank credit card. This was handy when I wanted to pay for a visit to an important monument. The Mastercard system was down throughout the area, so my Westpac card was useless. Fortunately WISE is with Visa, so I was able to use that.
I have just returned home after a month touring Andalusia. It struck me that there are far more pet dogs in Spain than there used to be. I stayed exclusively in hotels. One place allowed dogs in certain rooms on the ground floor, but I noticed that the owners were not allowed to sit in the main...
If 25% of people staying at Roncesvalles (as suggested above), then it seems likely that they have NOT walked over the mountain, but arrived by some kind of transport.
On the topic of long queues to get into the Albergue at Roncesvalles: this is my observation: I was there a few years ago, cold and tired and with a reservation. The problem was that only ONE official was processing people. This accounted for the slow-moving queue. The volunteers could do...
I think this is mainly a problem for women. Men CAN manage quite easily in the open air. I once slipped over whilst trying to “go” quickly at the side of the steep track down to El Acebo and ended up with a bloodied nose.
On the Le Puy Camino in France, I came across two public toilets, so it...
In the interests of public health, there is a real need for public toilets along the Camino. With the number of pilgrims that are walking nowadays, the "Spanish custom" of using facilities in bars is no longer feasible. I want to suggest that this Forum should leverage its popularity to petition...
When you form an opinion - good or bad - it depends where you are coming from. When I worked in Singapore many years ago, I lived in an apartment provided by the university. An American colleague had his father to stay. He said "That's the worst shower I had in my life; the water just trickles...
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