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    How much Spanish do you need on the VDLP

    Pantomime helps in a pinch.
  2. 4

    Booked our flights at a good rate

    Reminder to check your respective State Department travel alerts before booking. For the US, the current alert for travel to and from Spain: Due to COVID-19 Spanish travel restrictions, U.S. citizens cannot enter Spain unless they meet very specific requirements or have already obtained...
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    Storm Filomena: Spain sees 'exceptional' snowfall

    Pelegrin is right. The polar vortex is making all this happen.
  4. 4

    News about the Invierno

    1,000 reservation over the course of a year, 365 days = about 3 reservations per day, so it's not too far fetched.
  5. 4

    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Got my first Covid-19 shot!

    Congrats to you all who got your shots! Thought my turn would come soon but oops, the stockpile of doses they were going to release to the states turn out not to exist at all except on paper. Oh well, just have to wait longer.
  6. 4

    Socks colours - not a serious thread

    Having had various items of clothing misappropriated by fellow pilgrims by mistake post laundry, I do my best now to bring unpopular or weird colors socks and clothing. It was absolutely no fun to find one of my only two pairs of pants gone, or one of my two pairs of undies, or socks disappear...
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    OBSOLETE COVID THREAD Got my first Covid-19 shot!

    They are trying to get health care professionals out of retirement to help. That may be why?
  8. 4

    Returning to sanity: Planning my next, Post-Covid Camino.

    Caption is wrong. It really is "5 days away from home and missing wife."
  9. 4

    Do top bunks stop bed bugs?

    The pilgrims I met who slept at Roncesvalle albergue one night, top and bottom bunks, all got bedbug bites. I did not sleep there fortunately. I have done some research on bedbugs. Bedbugs can live in crevasses on wood but not metal. So if the bed is wood frame it does not matter top or...
  10. 4

    Rain kilt vs trousers - Sept Oct - Portuguese Coastal

    I gave my Altus away after one test. It just gets too warm for me, even in winter. Same with rain pants. On the Camino Portuguese I think the Altus alone would cook me alive. I have been using long ponchos and gaiters for years. While the combination works fairly well for me on the CF. It has...
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    Cáceres

    Both Merida and Caceres are each worth at least a full day. It's also worth spending an hour or so up at the Roman reservoir looking at the exhibits on the way out from Merida. The reservoir was so well built it remains in use today. Merida is full of Roman ruins in good shape, with artifacts...
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    Entertainment... "How to look at a painting of Velazquez"

    I see the big velvety horse's rump in the foreground as one of three most beautiful objects in the painting. Esthetically, it is appealing to me because it is innocent, a force of nature, and skillfully painted. It is allegorical. Look at the victor with his pink sash wrapping around his torso...
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    VdlP - Walking 2021

    Walked the VDLP from Seville starting Easter week in the midst of orange blossoms in full bloom. It was neither cold nor hot. It was lovely. Followed spring all the way up north, with wild flowers in abundance. The only thing to watch out for: Easter Sunday everything closes except gas (petrol)...
  14. 4

    Asking the pope for extending Holy year to 2022?

    It is extended through 2022.
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    From the Aragones to the Alto de Perdon

    From San Millan de la Cogolla, I have walked an alternative way: the mountain way through the Sierra Demanda. I have no link for it. I can only describe it for you. You can get directions for this route from the Tourist office at San Millan. Though the information they give is sketchy, it's...
  16. 4

    "A Different Christmas" - Christmas 2020 Song in Galego

    Yes cheesy and hammy too. Just what I need. Love it! Thanks.
  17. 4

    New mirador (lookout) at the Oseira Monastery

    I visited the Monastery in 2015 during my walk on the VDLP, but did not stay there. I walked there from Cea and took the tour. The young man (Noviciate?) who conducted the tour was very friendly, warm, and helpful. I also met the painter monk at the shop. His very beautiful paintings were being...
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    Norte west of Gijon and Del Mar routes

    The first 3-4 Ks or so NW outside of Gijon, for me, was a hellish journey through a valley with loud and unrelenting industrial noise, foul smell, and seamy sights. Of all the camino routes I have walked, that was the most trying section. I don't know how the inhabitants of the hillside villages...
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    Does the Camino Ruin Us for Evermore?

    Camino walking has ruined me only in the sense that dark chocolate has ruined me for milk chocolate, yet I still enjoy milk chocolate a lot. Given the choice I would go for dark, but I would love to have milk chocolate if I can't get dark. Actually the first of anything is no biggie for me. The...
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    Does the Camino Ruin Us for Evermore?

    "striking off from SJPDP full of vinegar"? I must be missing something here. "striking off from SJPDP full of vinegar"? I'm not getting what you mean.

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