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  1. David

    Alternatives to walking if injured

    There is a secondhand bike shop in Burgos - La Estacion de Bicicletas (the bike station), Calle Rey Don Pedro, 56 - they do up old bikes too - they might have something? There is the Viking bike shop - VikingsBurgos, sales and repairs, has a nice address! C. Santiago Apóstol, 18. Bike shops...
  2. David

    Alternatives to walking if injured

    My first Camino from Moissac in France, back in 2005, my old knee gave out at Logrono and I bought the cheapest clunker of a bike that Decathlon had .. had a back rack put on it, bungeed my pack to that and carried on - was extraordinary how I could cycle but not walk. Some sections of Camino...
  3. David

    Alternatives to walking if injured

    Well that is pretty sad - sorry to hear that. I had to come home early last month as my old knee trauma flared badly again - can't do it any more so that was my last walking Camino (will return to do first aid with my car in future). All depends on how mobile you are really - rest usually means...
  4. David

    Few questions - advice

    Good questions. 1. I always carry a spork .. how to eat a tub of yoghurt or ice cream or tin of beans without a spoon? Plus my Swiss army knife - if you buy 'carry with you' food that needs cutting you need a knife. (mine has a corkscrew too). 2. I always carry a few clothes pegs as they seem to...
  5. David

    25 km per day?

    True - here's a test - stand straight and relaxed with arms down the sides (no pack). Become aware of the front of the legs all the way down to the feet. Now bend forward at the waist - the waist only - and you can feel all the muscles and tendons and ligaments tightening up and going into...
  6. David

    Lost and found

    Last week I lost a new t shirt on the Meseta. Was wearing it under my shirt, became too hot so took it off, dropped it on my trailer whilst I put my shirt back on, forgot to pack it. Realised about 300 metres further on, after two pilgrims on bikes going the other way passed me. They stopped...
  7. David

    Returning Home & Preventing a Bedbug Infestation!

    Horrid!
  8. David

    Camino Francés favorites not in albergues?

    Burgos, Casa Pancho - Calle San Lorenzo, 13, 15, not far from the Cathedral in small side street. Founded 1958, authentic local cuisine at good prices and here's the thing - the locals eat there! Very friendly and helpful - lovely wines too. https://barpancho.com/bar-restaurante/
  9. David

    25 km per day?

    I do so agree Walkalong - my Ebay CaminoStore tagline is - "On Camino every day is a journey, and it is the journey itself that is home" which is taken from a poem by Matsuo Basho, the 17th C Japanese Zen poet - is this why we return to Camino? Wanderers? "The moon and sun are eternal...
  10. David

    25 km per day?

    If the full Frances is 790kms and the suggested days are 33 then the average is surely 23.93939393939394kms per day? 🤣
  11. David

    25 km per day?

    If you think about it the answer is simple - the guide books offer so many days to get to Santiago from St Jean, usually 33 days - so the daily kms have to fit into that so there the basic structure of the book. Unfortunately, regardless of health and fitness pilgrims many keep to those day...
  12. David

    Bar Etiquette

    Is a good question as I am always plagued by these sorts of etiquette thoughts when abroad. With a bar, if I go inside I always order at the bar. If tables and chairs outside and I sit outside I wait for a waiter. I do know that throughout Europe it is considered rude to order without saying...
  13. David

    The Camino walker and the biker. 🤣

    I love that! On Camino is a problem calling left as so many non-English speaking pilgrims - gentle bell or a "Buen Camino!" and slow down seems to work - don't you hate it when a group split into two on either side? Leaving almost no room? like herding cats with a bell - hopeless 😂
  14. David

    Camino Dating

    ;)
  15. David

    New mobile confession booths from Sarria

    Morning. There have been so many reports of bad behaviour from Sarria to the cathedral - pilgrims pushing in, stealing bunk places, being rude, etc ... that the diocese are introducing mobile confession booths in an attempt to bring some Christian civility to that last 100kms. They start today...
  16. David

    Camino Dating

    I think that she is writing about herself, looking for that he - don't you think?
  17. David

    Camino Dating

    Not meeting on Camino but one year I met a young Texican couple. Good upbringing, good schools, perfect teeth, etc (oh, and they were really good, intelligent, positive, and nice people too). They had been childhood sweethearts .. did school together .. college together .. and then were going to...
  18. David

    The Idea of Camino

    Interesting ... your error perhaps is to have that balance scales in the mind .. good things vs bad things as if only 'good things' make a 'good' Camino, whereas the truth is that there are only things .. they are neither good nor bad until our mind labels them, until we attach a negative or...
  19. David

    Inviting reflections on the wider costs of walking a Camino

    Mine is 20 years this May, works very well indeed - low footprint and the carbon cost of building it was paid off ten years ago. We could start an old car club!
  20. David

    Inviting reflections on the wider costs of walking a Camino

    In reply to BarbaraW - first of many I think as a lovely post - further up I suppose I wrote about the rather bleak "cost calculation" to so many careless humans living on this planet but there is so much more to being human than a balance sheet, whether it is funds or carbon emissions ... ...

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