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  1. Alison Chandler

    What was the coolest thing you were ever gifted on the trail?

    The news that I have been remembered for 38 years for bringing happiness to Santiago - that news delivered, with a kiss, by the local boy who I loved for a summer then and hadn't seen since.... sent me spinning.
  2. Alison Chandler

    Scallop Shell

    Think Ill start a new thread .... (after dinner now! maybe tomorrow!)
  3. Alison Chandler

    Scallop Shell

    Loads of super stuff above. Just to add my version - I live by the sea here in Scotland. On my training walk I went to the next village down the coast and they had a crate of empty smelly scallop shells waiting to be taken out to sea by the next fishing boat and dumped. I took one in a bag and...
  4. Alison Chandler

    Spanish siesta

    go to a place and live as much as possible the way people who live there do ... the food is better, the company is better, the learning is better, the journey is better.
  5. Alison Chandler

    Spanish siesta

    Oh yeah. Lets make everywhere in the world the same for the convenience of travellers.
  6. Alison Chandler

    Spending money/subsistence

    Yay! According to estimates from this thread, I have just won 2 days subsistence for this October's return on Camino - on the Grand National - horse named "I Ruled the World" (just liked the name!).
  7. Alison Chandler

    In 5 weeks I go back... looking again for the known, and unknown

    I love this. I was a student in Santiago in 1977 and for decades has a recurring dream of trying to get back, waking through the streets. 38 years passed till this last October when I did the Sarria stretch. I haven't really come back. Everyone says I am obsessed. I don't tell them they're...
  8. Alison Chandler

    Spending money/subsistence

    non-Joostian? Que?
  9. Alison Chandler

    Spending money/subsistence

    Again thanks for this. Love this Forum!!! Is that 56 euros a day including accommodation costs? Like you I will not be staying in albergues and for very much the same reasons (apart from the fungus - poor you!). I do love the company of others but I also love the peaceful time after a shower in...
  10. Alison Chandler

    Spending money/subsistence

    sorry I thought I had!!!! oh poo! Will check!
  11. Alison Chandler

    Spending money/subsistence

  12. Alison Chandler

    Spending money/subsistence

    Absolutely mi amigo but there are various reasons why not on this occasion.
  13. Alison Chandler

    My Ultimate Camino - who would you invite?

    Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, LLuis Llach, Carl Jung, John Bunyan, Rosalia do Castro, Chaucer - I had them all with me in my head ( and a couple of poetry books) when I walked in October and they are weaving their way into the memoire I am writing. I am sure the conversation over a...
  14. Alison Chandler

    Spending money/subsistence

    Thank you for this. I was just looking for estimate for over and above the hotel room. and really just working out what I can do with the budget I have rather than how to pay for it (though your details are welcome) So just food and drink and anything else I have not thought of. Surely 2...
  15. Alison Chandler

    "You talk too much about the Camino"

  16. Alison Chandler

    Spending money/subsistence

    Thanks very much for this. On the speaking Spanish I only meant that I have come across people who have been nervous to go into places less obviously aiming at foreigners or have only chosen products they recognise and have ended up paying more as a result. What thinking was included in your...
  17. Alison Chandler

    Spending money/subsistence

    How much per day do you think I need to budget for? I will be staying in hotels so anticipate this will be breakfast included. But theres midday meals and dinners and drinks and all that. I speak good Spanish and like local food so expect that to help. (When I went last year I was on an...
  18. Alison Chandler

    Unfriendly dogs...problem or not?

    It was fear of dogs that kept from me Camino for 38 years from 1977 when I was a student in Santiago until October 2015 when I walked Sarria to Santiago. I am pretty phobic. There were some very scary ones about but they were chained or caged or busy with cows. There was one huge Alsatian in...

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