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My user name is one i use for most stuff- ferenji means foreigner, in Amharic. Little kids used to shout it at me as i walked around Ethiopia. And since I've been travelling 50+ years, am indeed a foreigner almost everywhere.
As a musician and a " not-dirty hippie " (yikes the anti hippies stereotypes!!!) This post gets to me. I'm also just in 26 hr flight exhaustion mode...
I carry a flute or tin whistle and only play when I'm out in some tranquil glade along the way, with no one around. If someone passes by, they...
We walked from Lisboa 1 month ago. All was fine except for hostel at Alpriate ( our first night out)
Manager was creepy, groped my breast while ' 'showing'me something which I'd not asked to be shown and charged 1 € for the thinnest blanket in Portugal. Avoid that one, all the rest were...
And another issue- my friend and I ( 71+) decided to take metro out.of Porto to have a shorter day. Man, asked to help buy metro tickets, also helped himself to my purse. I lost more money than is good for a happy budget.
Beware- pickpockets are slick.
But most people are fine.
About the albergue in Alpriate- stayed there 2 nights ago.
Would not recommend it because of the behaviour of the man running it.
1) he shouted at me for filling in a form incorrectly. I couldn't read the tiny print , having bad eyesight
2) charged a euro extra for a.very thin blanket. I...
I don't even use a towel. A large dupatta (Indian shawl) of sheer cotton is quite absorbent, dries quickly, weighs nothing, is huge enough to wrap around one's body, and has been used as a neck scarf on chilly dawn mornings.
And if perchance you come across a mosque, it becomes a modest head...
Ah, well, Peregrina 2000, you are assuming the items to be sent for post Camino life are clothes ('outfits').
Think outside the box.
It is mainly a wood flute case. I am taking the flute along as I walk, well padded in sleeping bag etc ( the case would add a prohibitive amount of weight) but...
As usual, most hats recommended here are 'brand names'. I wear a no-name hemp hat, made in Nepal, it folds and unfolds, and even has a wee tag on the front that has an opening just small enough for the stem of a fresh picked wild flower. Since leaving Le Puy in October, a small sprig of...
Or you can make one. I bought the right amount of meters of fabric, sewed up the sides, and voila, a sheet sleeping bag. For a few pennies. Not everything needed on the Camino needs to be a 'brand' or costly. A little old fashioned do it yourself works, and of course is also good preparation for...
On my first Camino, Roncesvalles to Santiago to Finisterre, 11 years ago, out in front of the Cathedral I happened to run into a couple whom I had met in the UK just before starting out. Friends of friends, y'know. Small world - they were there just as tourists and impressed that I had walked...
Hi, sorry to be redundantn but could not find the exact answer for this route. Most of these issues seem to deal with the Camino Frances.
Now that I am packing to leave in April for Lisbon, am wondering if I really need that (light weight ) sleeping bag, or will the sleeping sheet from Le Puy...
I am from Alaska, which always elicits oohs and ahs from people and the statement "I've never met anyone from Alaska before".
I use that because it seems more like a separate country than a state- and because I'm not partial to America in general.
Been an ex-pat for many years, and that gets...
I stayed at Gite du Gua and while the gite was fine and mother and son very cool, the dinner was pure stodge. And Mum gave me some incorrect advice that caused a few hours of anguish and more extra km than I'd wanted to walk. Perhaps my worst day! But they were very nice.
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