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  1. bystander

    The future of Camino Hospitality

    Spot on, Rebekah. Depressingly accurate in your vision of the Camino's near future. Yet realistic in an eventual Refiner's fire rebirth.
  2. bystander

    Walking poles and Marmite

    Is it a coincidence that Jonah escaped from the whale not long after he had dropped a Marmite sandwich?
  3. bystander

    Your accommodation doesn't make you a pilgrim!

    Pedant :-) !!!
  4. bystander

    Your accommodation doesn't make you a pilgrim!

    Just dug one out of my pocket and counted the sides - it's 7 !!!!
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    Advice required: Compact Camera for Video? with External mic Input

    Rob, I so agree with what you have said. I have had Canon cameras since the early '70s when I met someone who had been the official photographer for the RAF here. He was setting up a camera shop and I was lusting after a Nikon but he then put me straight! So at his recommendation I bought, at...
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    Advice required: Compact Camera for Video? with External mic Input

    I'm a Canon camera (and printer!) user but for ext. microphone have a look at Nikon Coolpix P7800 or Fujifilm X30, which do, to see if they meet your other criteria.
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    Getting things off my chest post Camino Frances

    Sometimes, on this forum, the threads/questions posted and the answers given worry and frighten me!
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    Places that are worth to make a longer break / or stay

    As usual - Kanga is spot on!
  9. bystander

    Smuggling Hams back to the USA

    Believe me - it happened - it was in the summer of 1974 and I was seriously "hacked off" about it! I told my host, a Presbyterian minister, about it and he was not as surprised or sceptical as you!!
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    Smuggling Hams back to the USA

    Many many years ago, unaware of the US restrictions on importing meat products, I took English smoked bacon as a gift for my hosts. My flight into Miami coincided with the arrival of a couple of flights from Central and South America. The customs officials were well prepared for them with...
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    Impact of Train Strike

    To add to biarritzdon's earlier comment - and I don't mean to be overly pessimistic but such are the "inclinations" of the French. However "praemonitus praemunitus". A strike or public holiday on a Thursday and the Friday can become what the French call a "pont" (bridge) day to the weekend...
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    Where's Ivar

    I hesitate to impute Ivar with the sins of hedonism or sybaritism but I can't see a bar or restaurant in that picture!
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    Porridge

    My mother (also born in Edinburgh) used the same method. I believe that the original Bircher Muesli recipe also required the overnight soaking method. Not this modern, no overnight soaking, masochistic tooth grinding/eroding jaw tiring method. I, occasionally, mix raw oats with yoghurt and...
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    You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

    Still true, Alwyn, which is why we have RP (received pronunciation)/BBC English as a lingua Franca in the UK so as to be understood countrywide ! Though it can be thought of as "posh" to speak it and in some rough parts i.e. North of the Thames E-W corridor (only teasing) can provoke, as I have...
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    What happened to the Forum?

    Ivar, I think the present set-up is perfectly adequate. For which thank you. Anything more would only complicate and confuse a newcomer looking for advice and information And anything less would not be sufficient.
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    Dear Deer....Mishap on the Meseta.

    Gerard, Elegantly very elegantly told But Naughty very naughty thoughts I have those too But never admit to them now For when in the past I have people look so appalled I don't what to do or say!
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    Pot and the Camino – More alike than you thought

    In my (inexperienced view re: actually walking the CdF) "Pot and the Camino - more alike than you thought" - is a very silly and facile comparison. If one is to have a "medicinal" i.e. "chemical" reason (excuse) for walking a Camino to SdC then I would suggest that cerveza/vino/pacharan are...
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    Peregrina Held Hostage

    Such openness, such honesty Gerard. Your heart on sleeve and your transparency of thought Almost always guaranteed to get you in trouble Gerard! Loved the tale and the telling of it And agree with the conundrum, the puzzle, of your final question. Can never understand why such candour provokes...
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    Anyone use a ScotteVest?

    I have a sleeveless (gilet?) ScotteVest which I wear here in the UK during the English summer (what that?) months. It is useful and does have numerous pockets and hideaways - possibly too many. But as Gerard gerardcarey and Wokabaut_Meri have pointed out it is very useful for "loading"...
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    Reflections on my journey of a lifetime….

    Maggie, what a lovely and gracious post. And astonishment and amazement, with your bronchial problems, to have made the complete pilgrimage journey. An encouragement and an examplar for the rest of us. Many congratulations.

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