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  1. WycombeMan

    Michael Portillo serves pilgrim lunch

    Oh I enjoy his railway series I will have to look out for this episode, I can think of worse people to have lunch with I guess, he was my MP for many years and met him many many times and he was always a well informed and capable man and solved several of our issues locally, but I think I would...
  2. WycombeMan

    Looking for backpack accessory pouch

    I feel a bit of cheapskate looking at all these bags etc as I use a zipped freezer bag attached with a nappy pin to keep the things i need throughout the day and it hangs on the left of my rucksack. I may pop down to camping shop later as I don't want to look like an unprofessional pilgrim.:(
  3. WycombeMan

    Making a Brew - should I Bother?

    As a slightly obsessed tea drinker, I know when out walking I have to stick to water and the odd coffee, as much as I would love to take some sort of brewing equipment, I cant risk going over 9kg, I will pray for a few random kettles in Refugio's or an understanding café owner ( I can provide...
  4. WycombeMan

    Do I need a phone? What's your experience?

    I've decided against taking a phone when I leave next week, I have a fear that I will spend all my time looking for wi-fi hotspots/texting and wanting to surf the net and not just relaxing, re-affirming my faith and just getting away from it all, I have said I will contact home every 4 days...
  5. WycombeMan

    beard or razor?

    Normally I have a beard in winter and shave in summer, so it looks like I shall be shaving , although I have about half a can of shaving gel and a few disposable razors so once the are used I will grow a beard. I've also had hair cut on the weekend so short I don't currently recognise my...
  6. WycombeMan

    Happy Easter pilgrims

    Happy Easter, yeah Lent is over, my rucksack is packed full of once illicit items, a cold outdoor dawn service and pilgrim breakfast completed at my parish church, I'm now just parked up and about to walk around Windsor Great Park with the dog hoping not to wake any deer up a we walk past as I...
  7. WycombeMan

    The doctor says my dodgy knee is arthritis - advice please!

    Cheers Terry, careful planning with the odd massage, throw in a few prayers and an ican attitude I believe myself and everyone can achieve anything. Buen Camino
  8. WycombeMan

    Flasher in Columbrianos!

    I pulled into a layby to stop for a drink this morning after an appointment and the man in the car next to me flashed me, I spat all my water out laughing, ive never thought of of reporting a flasher to the police, but that's maybe being a bloke I didn't feel threatened and shrugged it off as...
  9. WycombeMan

    The doctor says my dodgy knee is arthritis - advice please!

    The knee's have ruined what was for me a great pleasure, I used to love running in the hills and peaks and would happily walk for 8 hours with no affect on me, alas now at the fairly young age of 36 I need 2 new knees(coccyx removal too), I have hydrotherapy and physiotherapy weekly and have...
  10. WycombeMan

    Why mention miles when Europe uses km's ?

    I like how we measure differently its what makes our countries/regions etc unique, Well i'm leaving my allotment in the capable hands of my Father and Sister(and my collie) as i'm away for at least 3 months on the Camino and some travelling down to Portugal afterwards , so hopefully I will be...
  11. WycombeMan

    Why mention miles when Europe uses km's ?

    indeed my allotment is 10 rod or to those outside the allotment world here in the uk about 250sq meters, I was told by a fellow gardener the way they measure a rod/perch etc is reputedly the distance from the back of the plough to the nose of the oxen..
  12. WycombeMan

    Where to stay in SJPP

    oh thanks everyone, oh I think i will wing it then, makes it bit more of an adventure going into the unknown..
  13. WycombeMan

    Where to stay in SJPP

    Is It advisable to book ahead for SJPDP? for I was going to start as I mean to go and just turn up and hope for a bed, I arrive about 17.00hrs 28/4. Should I start to be worried with only 14 days before I arrive...
  14. WycombeMan

    English speaking travel agent in SdC

    I use the Renfe ticket machines as they are in English and always finds the cheapest tickets, lets you chose your seat, cheapest time to travel etc
  15. WycombeMan

    Dogs

    sounds lovely thank you, I have have made a note and put it in my journal ready
  16. WycombeMan

    Croc shower sandals and other ways to cut weight

    No nothing is ever too personal for me, so its fairly boring im afraid I have left out a bobble hat, swimming trunks, flask, conditioner, kindle, beard trimmer, mobile phone and a 4th pair of socks n underwear. so its just the basics, i've cut out luxuries as I really don't want to carry them...
  17. WycombeMan

    Croc shower sandals and other ways to cut weight

    Im taking my sketchers trainers they weight about 7oz superlight and comfy for when Im not wearing my boots, ive decided against a few things in my bag whilst doing atrial packing yesterday and am down to 8.4k
  18. WycombeMan

    Dogs

    The one thing I will really miss on my Camino is my dog, so i'm hoping I can at least have a bit of a smooth and a belly tickle with random dogs along the way, I used to volunteer at a local dog shelter so are quite used to weird and aggressive behaviour from our canine friends. If my boarder...
  19. WycombeMan

    Searching secondhand book shops for Camino books.

    I worked the summer many years ago in a youth hostel just outside Hay-on-Wye, I would spend all day Tuesday( my day off) spending all my wages on books, I worked all summer in order to save, alas all I had to show for it were a couple of hundred books, an no where near the amount I needed to...
  20. WycombeMan

    Searching secondhand book shops for Camino books.

    Yes I do, I love nothing more than rummaging around a bookshop, I loose myself for hours, and all excited when finding a book that went out of print years ago, the slightly dusty disorganised feel, but above all I love the smell of a second hand book shop

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