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  1. dougfitz

    Albergue Peregrinos Ribadiso

    Whether you worry or not, you won't know until you get there whether there will be beds available for the four of you. Nor can we do other than guess! That said, my experience over the last couple of years with Xunta albergues, albeit not on the CF in late September, was that only one had over...
  2. dougfitz

    Do you drop any personal restrictions on Camino?

    I didn't know you cared so much about my personal moral and ethical choices! Nor did I understand that the mere fact of doing the Camino gave some form of permission to relax any of these. While my lack of adherence to the first three or four of the ten commandments might appall dedicated...
  3. dougfitz

    Injury - in Oviedo now

    Knees are complex joints, and properly diagnosing what is happening won't necessarily be a simple task. I think you should reconsider getting to a hospital emergency department. They are likely to have access to a range of diagnostic services that might not be readily available in health centres.
  4. dougfitz

    Portuguese Senda Litoral and Spiritual Route Map tracks

    Are you asking about GPS tracks (.gpx, ,kml, etc), a mapping app like OSMAnd+ or MapyCZ or a specialist Camino app with maps like the WisePilgrim or Camino Ninja apps?
  5. dougfitz

    Caminho without a phone

    In the last few days, I have been preparing for my upcoming pilgrimage on the Gudbrandsdalsleden. This has included moving key documents into a cloud storage space, and ensuring that I have two-factor identification options that do not rely on my phone. The OPs experience suggests how important...
  6. dougfitz

    Help getting lodging past Sarria

    It seems to me that you have been told several times in this thread that there are some of us who wanted to take a different approach to 'powering through'. More, some of us think that the way you present your preferred options appears to leave little room for the discussion of other options...
  7. dougfitz

    Help getting lodging past Sarria

    I can only say again, @isawtman, this might have been your experience, it wasn't mine. To me it is a pretty seaside fishing village that makes much of its location as not quite the westernmost point on the Iberian peninsula. At the right time, I have no doubt that the Atlantic swell crashing...
  8. dougfitz

    Help getting lodging past Sarria

    This made me wonder what it would be like living a life driven by some need to be continually foregoing what I am currently doing to search for some new experience with an expectation but no certainty that it might be 'more spectacular'. I wondered how often I would find myself disappointed...
  9. dougfitz

    Death of German peregrina in Zuriain this morning

    May they rest in peace.
  10. dougfitz

    Camino by Coach

    The Pilgrim Office website offers an English translation of the current text here: https://oficinadelperegrino.com/en/pilgrimage/the-compostela/. ps. AI - very artificial, not always intelligent - should be VANAI edit: David, my 2010 Compostela is similar to the one you have shown. By 2016...
  11. dougfitz

    Camino by Coach

    Of course, selectively quoting the text and not including this: puts rather a different slant on any analysis about the role of walking or riding as one part of the criteria for awarding the Compostela. Yes, intent is important, but so is the physical endeavour of walking or riding.
  12. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    I'm not sure why you are finding this a problem. As others have pointed out, it is the same rhetorical logic that you have used yourself, so I wasn't expecting that you would find the proposition all that difficult to accept ;)
  13. dougfitz

    Help getting lodging past Sarria

    When I first walked, I was walking solo at the point that I reached Sarria, and I did this. When I walked from Sarria a few years later with my wife, we took a few more days, and I had a much more pleasant experience, despite the so-called crowding. I get the impression that @falconbrother is...
  14. dougfitz

    Coffee

    My taste buds are not that well honed that I would reject a Starbucks or any other chain coffee when that is all there is to be had. But it's always nice to be home and be able to get to places where I do like the coffee they serve.
  15. dougfitz

    Unsolicited Camino Prep Ideas

    What a thoughtful, well balanced contribution. Thank you.
  16. dougfitz

    Travel Insurance

    droll!! It's alway amusing to see what delusions our eastern neighbours suffer from!
  17. dougfitz

    Travel Insurance

    I find it just as important to check the conditions and exclusions on insurance provided by credit card companies as any other travel insurance product. Some don't offer the option of having some of my medical conditions covered, others do so at extra cost where they do have the flexibility. My...
  18. dougfitz

    Help getting lodging past Sarria

    I would be checking Gronze or one of the many Camino apps for albergues and other accommodation providers, and contacting them directly by text or phone. I have heard different stories about what percentage of their beds they offer on sites like Booking.com, but clearly many hold some beds back...
  19. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    The only Santiago with a sea port that I can recall is Santiago de Cuba. It is the only one of the five major Santiago cities located on the coast. There are many more locations named Santiago. I didn't check how many were also ports.
  20. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    What a wonderful example of the rhetorical fallacy formally known as an ad hominum, or perhaps better known in this case as 'shooting the messenger'. If properly implemented, it could become an instance of that management policy 'the sackings will continue until morale improves' as we eliminate...

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