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  1. Chizuru

    Business ideas? - Just for fun!

    Like this one that I am soaking in after finishing the Kumano Kodo in Japan
  2. Chizuru

    Business ideas? - Just for fun!

    I would open up nice toilets along the areas that sorely need it. Your icecream vending could be attached to a nice toilet at the top out of Castroherez and another along that Roman road of 20kms with only saplings for privacy!
  3. Chizuru

    A story of a second Camino

    Why do you feel a failure? You walked the whole way and did it with a lot of pain. That takes mighty effort, resolve and perseverance. To get up in the morning and know that every step you take for the next 20 kms will be in pain and yet still do it shows great strength of character and purpose...
  4. Chizuru

    I asked AI for a picture

    I love this. My Maiden name is Hare and my name that I am called as a grandmother is Bunny.
  5. Chizuru

    Look behind you!!

    We always do an 'emu bob' before we leave any place that we stay and a 360-degree look around us for left objects and rubbish when we walk away from a stop. That usually works, but I once left my poles behind on a day that was so full of pain that I could barely think straight. I can't fathom...
  6. Chizuru

    When will it cool down in Spain?

    We were walking the Frances this time 5 years ago. Reading my diary it was incredibly hot every day ( high 30s) until after Sahagun on 10th October which is when we started to get chilly mornings, some rain, and cooler days. I detest the heat and really struggled walking through those first 21...
  7. Chizuru

    Cats on the Camino

    Sorry to hear about your pet.
  8. Chizuru

    Cats on the Camino

  9. Chizuru

    Cats on the Camino

    I adore cats and always carry a bag of cat nuts with me in poorer areas. My favourite cat was a friendly fellow in O Cebriero who sat on my lap for hours when I was having a rest day to help my tendinitis. On my recent Camino in France I also brought cat nuts but after carrying them for half...
  10. Chizuru

    Cats on the Camino

    What a lovely story. I have wanted to do that in a number of countries. A little one in Fez was particularly difficult to leave, but Australia has very strict quarantine requirements and it is impossible to for us to adopt a stray overseas. You are very lucky and so is catigrino! What did you...
  11. Chizuru

    Cats on the Camino

    A cat person always knows to ask the cat if it wants a pat. Not by talking of course, they wouldn’t understand English anyway, but by the way you approach them. It will be obvious if a pat is welcome or not.
  12. Chizuru

    Any advice for when you want to quit?

    This reminds me a bit of the movie The Way where just after they hit rock bottom, had a fight and he ended up in jail, he took luxury rooms for them all in the Parador in Leon and it lifted their spirits. Maybe a bit of rest in comfort will do the trick for your body and spirits. If that...
  13. Chizuru

    Caution to the wind or planning safely? Which way should we travel?

    I guess that for a first time walker, there is some value in winging it, but once you have walked a route, know how far you like to walk when well, and how far is possible when injured/unwell, then planning your nights can be good so that you can juggle your stages to be able to stay at that...
  14. Chizuru

    Caution to the wind or planning safely? Which way should we travel?

    To give you another perspective, I am usually a planner. I take enormous pleasure in planning. I read, research, hunt each town on Google maps for likely accommodation and read reviews. This can keep me very happily occupied for many months. When our Podiensis journey was cancelled in 2020, I...
  15. Chizuru

    Valencian breakfast

    Valencia sounds lovely. King Charles III would approve. He created the town of Poundsbury with exactly that premise in mind. I am drooling at the memory of those delicious fresh orange juice.
  16. Chizuru

    What to do with three weeks after Santiago?

    The Andalusian coast is wonderful. Malaga is Picasso’s birthplace with a museum. Granada is spectacular and the Alhambra is a treasure. Look out for all of the pomegranates in Granada ( its name means pomegranate). I haven’t seen anything else down there but those two places kept us occupied for...
  17. Chizuru

    Albergue idea - group snorers together, away from non-snorers

    It puts a new slant on that phrase, 'get a grip'!!
  18. Chizuru

    Excessive planning, research and expectations being set

    Le Puy is very different from Frances. If you did no research and expect it to be like Spain then you will be caught short. I am so pleased that I planned meticulously and watched Efran’s videos. We walked in May and found almost nothing in the way of shops open for days at time and were glad...
  19. Chizuru

    Excessive planning, research and expectations being set

    I think that it helps give the full range of options and ideas so that someone new can decide for themselves what approach appeals best and those who have walked a couple of times can try another way if they didn’t feel comfortable with their past experience. They may have started with the...
  20. Chizuru

    Excessive planning, research and expectations being set

    I was going to walk the Podiensis from Le Puy to Cahors. I spent many wonderful hours pouring over the route, choosing Gites, trying to book them, being told they were full, changing my distances to be able to reach a Gite with vacancies. I finally had every night secured. But… it was 2020 and...

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