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  1. Antonius Vaessen

    Lost & Found Take care of your gear!

    Of cause you need to take care of your things but all this talk about safety precautions causes also some irritation with me. What I like about a camino is that at the base of how many things work on a camino lies trust in our fellow man. Be it for instance the drinks you can take at some...
  2. Antonius Vaessen

    Cafe con leche different this year?

    Or might it be that the "coffeeculture" in the Southwest of Spain is different than in the northern parts where I walked most of my caminos?
  3. Antonius Vaessen

    Cafe con leche different this year?

    I am just back from a few weeks on the Via the la Plata. Since 2015 I have been nearly every year in Spain walking caminoroutes I loved the café con leches. This year I did not like them as much, most of the times they were much strenger than I remembered and liked. Is this just me who...
  4. Antonius Vaessen

    Competition for the best hamburger in Spain

    I am not really a hamburger fan ( and less so since I eat vegetarian 95 % of the time) A food competition I like more is a "pintcho" competition they have beginning of may in Ourense. You can visit different bars, eat their pintcho that is specially developed for the competition fill in a...
  5. Antonius Vaessen

    Duo Lingo or Something Else?

    Here another vote for Language Transfer
  6. Antonius Vaessen

    A long (winding) road.

    I have this picture of the Via de la Plata (10 kilometers before Salamanca as a wallpaper. Just to reminder me I can "get on the road again" When I want do. ( on april 3 I will start in Sevilla again and hope to reach salamanca again, my favourite city on the VdlP.
  7. Antonius Vaessen

    Carry your backpack please.

    I prefer to carry my own backpack, it is more or less a fysical burden, how much depends on condition, age and so on. It offers advantages that for me are greater " freedom", self-determination and son. That being said. My last camino I did consider making use of a backpack delivery company (...
  8. Antonius Vaessen

    Do you collect a Compostela?

    No, never. If I would walk for religious/ spiritual reasons I might have done To me it's just a walk, with benefits, be it for the landscape, the culture indrastructure and very important social contacts. I am not interested in a " walking certificate"
  9. Antonius Vaessen

    Hospitaleros & The Pilgrim

    I stayed there two years in a row. The first year the procedure was like in many albergues, to leave your backpack downstairs and take the things you need up in the basket. The next year we had to shower outside and change clothes into things provided by them. It was peculiar and unique on the...
  10. Antonius Vaessen

    Hospitaleros & The Pilgrim

    What a pity that this albergue has closed It was , together wit O Xistral my favourite albergue on the Norte. Interesting to see "the back of the medal" ( like we say in dutch) via the experience of a hospitalero
  11. Antonius Vaessen

    Camino etiquette - passing others on less-busy caminos

    To me it is not a big problem. I think if you pass someone or are passed by it will soon be clear, if the other person wants to be involved in a conversation.
  12. Antonius Vaessen

    Donating in donativos

    I always thought "donativo" did not mean "free" and that people who act as if an albergue is free abuse the system
  13. Antonius Vaessen

    Donating in donativos

    How do you mean this? How do more fortunate pilgrims compensate for starting pilgrims? Do they pay more in donativo albergues? This is not my experience. My guideline is that most of the times I pay the price that I pay in ( private) Albergues and more if the services provided are very good. I...
  14. Antonius Vaessen

    Donating in donativos

    I think you act very respectfully. You say you sleep most of the time in municipal albergues, can't you consider the price you pay there as a guideline? That should be enough I think and it is clear that you can afford it. ( allthough I like the idea behind the donativo's it is a problem for...
  15. Antonius Vaessen

    Crinkly Plastic Bags

    Sleeping outside is an option too
  16. Antonius Vaessen

    The “new normal” isn’t necessarily bad

    I agree that making reservations is not spontanuous with regard to the aspect of where you sleep that night. It createss more possibilities to act spontanuously in all/ many other aspect of your camino
  17. Antonius Vaessen

    The “new normal” isn’t necessarily bad

    I don't completeöy understand your point, albergues that don't accept reservations still exist and hopefully/ probably will exist in the future. People who want to make reservations are in my opinion not a problem for other ones who want to stop at the place and moment they want to. Like I said...
  18. Antonius Vaessen

    The “new normal” isn’t necessarily bad

    People who make reservations create more available beds in albergues that dont accept reservations. Its a "win win" situation
  19. Antonius Vaessen

    Best 5 days

    Salvador
  20. Antonius Vaessen

    Accommodation app

    I mainly use Gronze, it has everything I need

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