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    Sarah from New Zealand -What drew you to the Camino?

    Hi Sarah, Just out of curiosity but why wait two years more just so that you could make it to an even-numbered but rather arbitrary milestone age to begin walking something you clearly want to do. Are there other reasons you need to wait that long? Incidentally you and I are about the same...
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    Using Whatsapp to message albergues

    Al Also if you are using an iPhone and only want to call the albergue in question, you can do that via WhatsApp without inputting the country code and number. So say you see a number on webpage if you hold down and long press the phone number a drop-down menu pops up allowing you to call them...
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    Using booking.com on your Camino

    At one albergue in the Meseta the price difference was 15 euros via booking.com vs 10 in cash. Never used it again, many albergue owners seem to despise booking.com more than customers do, and I hate booking.com from prior bad experiences personally.
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    Using Whatsapp to message albergues

    I was comparing messaging apps—until recently FB messenger was the most popular messaging app in the USA but WhatsApp is gaining and is the most popular download apparently now. But comparing sms to a messaging app is like comparing the telegraph to the telephone. SMS is not secure often charges...
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    Using Whatsapp to message albergues

    All numbers on/for WhatsApp are saved with the country code there is no other way to save numbers so you never need to use the country code again
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    Using Whatsapp to message albergues

    https://mashable.com/article/obsessed-with-whatsapp The other HUGE benefit of using WhatsApp is that your number stays the same for others no matter what sim you are actually using. So if you are going through multiple counties, say France, Spain and Portugal, you can buy a local sim anywhere...
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    Using Whatsapp to message albergues

    WhatsApp is the most popular texting app in the world. The only place it is not is the US where Facebook messenger is the most popular messaging. They are both owned by the same company but WhatsApp is extremely secure as it is based on Signal’s end to end encryption platform. So if you meet...
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    Porto, March 23, 2023 - Weather?

    I was there two weeks ago walking southward to Lisbon and I can tell you that 16 or 17 is colder than you think it is especially with the wind. The whole way down the weather was schizo—just the other day for instance I changed from shorts to long pants 4 times in a single day. When the sun is...
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    Camino Portugues Budget

    Having just walked entirety of the Camino Frances and then immediately walked the Camino Portuguese in reverse from Santiago to Lisbon on the coastal route (and currently about 40 km from Lisbon) over the past two months I feel pretty confident in being able to give you an idea on recent cost...
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    Can I get poles in Santiago?

    PR Blanco albergue right by the pilgrim’s office has lots of poles in a huge bin abandoned there by pilgrim’s before returning home on their flights.

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