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  1. J

    Spiritual preparation

    el camino real setu misma ideal solo es interno a graffito on the exit to Leon. (more or less as written)
  2. J

    Zero Shoes (sandals)

    For a 'modern' take on the Viet Minh and Masai solutions to footwear, you might try Vibram 5fingers. My walking companion on the Frances last year reported a woman walking barefoot, which picqued my curiosity, as I was wearing heavy leather 3-season boots, and not comfortably. Looking for...
  3. J

    Post Camino can things ever be normal again?

    I suggest that the Camino is significant for many because there is a deliberate intent to step outside your own comfort/habit zone, and there are always consequences when we do that (even if unacknowledged). Some we may welcome, others not, some just are and pass unremarked. Sometimes we find...
  4. J

    Feeling a little judged from other commenters so...

    I walked the Camino Ingles, 118km app, in June, with my wife and two friends. Very few people, nowhere near as busy as the Sarria section, but physically harder. We met a fellow pirlgrim who had used a tour organiser, and he stayed in the same places we booked direct. The difference was that...
  5. J

    Shoes. Strength and stability vs. cushy and soft???

    Have you looked at Vibram five-fingers? I couldn't bear the thought of wearing my leather boots on the second camino because of the weight, and the lack of fit. An out-of-normal foot shape means few boots actually fit, and the one brand that did wasn't quite right. I found the five-fingers to...
  6. J

    Name the one thing you could never have prepared for

    Thankyou Camster. The next, if that is what it is to be, will be my third. These events happened on the second. I've heard of post camino retreats in Spain, but is there one here in UK, I wonder.
  7. J

    Name the one thing you could never have prepared for

    The relationships I went out with being completely knocked sideways, broken, caput and in a very emotionally nasty way. Perhaps the Camino merely povided the necessary catalyst for something that was bound to happen. Now in endgames, perhaps there will be restoration, if not I've vowed to do...
  8. J

    Vibram five fingers

    I walked Camino Ingles last week, in the Trek Ascent. Bliss, even when wet. Last year I walked the Frances in Altberg Tethera 3 season, in September - never again (the boots not the Way). My wife walked the Ingles with me, in a pair of ordinary Karrimor walking shoes, she had no problems...
  9. J

    Ticks and Lyme's Disease

    A better source of info for Lymes is http://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/about-lyme/faq/ The symptoms page is not for the faint-hearted.
  10. J

    Ticks and Lyme's Disease

    If you search for ticks on here you will see the discussion about ticks on the CF. I acquired Lymes last September, and as far as I am concerned I am still suffering the effects, about to get another blood test after I get back from the Ingles. A fellow p mentioned he'd brought a ticktool...
  11. J

    Why you should not walk the Camino del Norte (or at least not until you have read this post!)

    As a Camino first-timer I completed the Frances this September. The Norte had been my first choice, but I was deterred by other reports of the physical arduosness of the route. But if I was to write a report of the Frances, I would be echoing several comments in the Norte report.
  12. J

    Ticks

    mountaingoat999, I think the key thing is that initially I had no idea that I had been bitten by a tick, and that does not seem to be that unusual. I thought all the marks I had were from bedbugs, and I'd like to emphasise the fact from the WHO report that the bullseye doesn't always appear...
  13. J

    Ticks

    I thought I'd post a photo of the bite site, taken the day before I attended hospital in Sarria. A smaller one on my left ankle was about half the size. Reading the WHO report I think I was fortunate to have developed the rash.
  14. J

    Ticks

    Mountaingoat999, the NHS website is good, but there are other authoritative US sites which tend to give more technical info if that's what's wanted. Mark, several sites suggest that the deer tick will fall off once fed. From my experience for the whole camino frances, it isn't possible to...
  15. J

    Ticks

    Mountaingoat999 I think that the doctors prescribing the correct form of antibiotic suggests a diagnosis, don't you? The bites certainly looked characteristic, and absent lengthy and controversial testing procedures generally undertaken after more adverse symptoms manifest, I think it was a...
  16. J

    Ticks

    Well, mountaingoat999, perhaps the doctors erred on the safe side so I have no problem with their diagnosis. 6 days out from Sarria was before Sarria, should have been more explicit. I started at SJDPP. Useful advice if late for me. I saw no ticks at all, just the aftermath, as others might I'm...
  17. J

    Ticks

    Lots of mentions of bedbugs, nothing on tick bites. I acquired several bedbug bites about 6 days out from Sarria. About two days out one changed its aspect into what I found out by Google looked like a tickbite with Lymes disease. On the 26th attended Sarria hospital, doctors prescribed...
  18. J

    The Oficina del Peregrino

    My wife and I, and two friends, completed the Camino on 1 October, and were taken on by Cyril at the Office, who with a good humorous banter guided us towards obtaining the compostellas. Took all of 3/4hr during which time we had coffee in the bar opposite. Thank you Cyril.

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