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  1. Glenshiro

    Can I do the camino at 16

    I met two 16 year olds on the CF, twin boys, who were managing just fine, and, separately, a 16 year old girl. (Although an older woman, 20s, took her under her wing.) I went to Paris on my own when I was 15, though just for the weekend. Hitched all over Europe in my teens, everyone did. I once...
  2. Glenshiro

    Embarrassing moments

    I managed to lock myself into a church between Espalion and Estaing on the Podiensis. It wasn't easy, but I managed it. I waited for about an hour for someone to come along, but no-one did and I eventually freed myself by bending a steel bar (must have had my spinach that morning) which opened...
  3. Glenshiro

    BBC "Pilgrimage" series 6 - North Wales Pilgrim Way

    That's one more than me, and I'm a Brit, too.
  4. Glenshiro

    Camino Family Experience

    I don't think I would want to be part of a group that would have me as a member. (With apologies to Groucho Marx.)
  5. Glenshiro

    What's with the big bulls on the hills?

    I saw the same thing in a village just outside Santiago (on a non-Camino visit) in 1989. And a frequent sight in the countryside was a lone shepherd, leaning on a stick, guarding a flock of sheep. Cheaper than fencing, I surmised at the time.
  6. Glenshiro

    Beware of Spanish Yuletide practise

    It's one way of getting ready for Pancake Day. (Popular name for Shrove Tuesday in the UK.)
  7. Glenshiro

    Camino Portuguese or Camino de Invierno

    Have a look at this very helpful thread "Planning a 25km or less Camino on the Invierno"
  8. Glenshiro

    I really wish I knew that!

    Quite right too! I was once soundly rebuked by a French bus driver for asking him what time the bus left without prefacing my question with a "bonjour monsieur"
  9. Glenshiro

    I really wish I knew that!

    This is REALLY important in all of Europe, possibly even more so in France. I have been asked numerous times by travellers from the other side of the Atlantic "why are the locals so rude?" when I have witnessed said traveller walk up to a bar and, without preamble, bark out "hi, gimme a (beer...
  10. Glenshiro

    Celebrating my old age

    71 next week, recovering (swiftly) from surgery for a torn cartilage which appeared, miraculously, AFTER I finished the CF and Invierno this year. Hoping to tackle the Aragones next year - and some of the remoter parts of Scotland.
  11. Glenshiro

    National passport in card form

    This thread appears to have acquired a life of its own! Yes, I had to speak to an immigration officer and show him my Irish passport card. I did actually have the passport book with me when I left the UK, but at the end of my trip I had absentmindedly put it in my rucksack which I then checked...
  12. Glenshiro

    National passport in card form

    I recently arrived at Gatwick, from Spain, with just my Irish passport card (it says on it that it's a pasport, so that's good enough for me) and was waved through immigration.
  13. Glenshiro

    National passport in card form

    Use mine all the time at Immigration (e-passport machines don't recognise them, annoyingly) and when checking in to accommodation. For those who haven't travelled to Spain, it is compulsory to show a form of ID when checking into any form of overnight accommodation. In theory, this is...
  14. Glenshiro

    Drones

    I wondered what had happened to Victor Meldrew.......
  15. Glenshiro

    The culture has changed...sadly

    The only certainties in life are summer and babies. (Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm)
  16. Glenshiro

    The culture has changed...sadly

    When I started, the main problem was the dragons.
  17. Glenshiro

    Zaragoza: mind blown!!!

    Errr, without being controversial, they weren't German!
  18. Glenshiro

    Gite timetable ... on Camino Le Puy

    15 minutes past 3pm, 5 past 5am, you get the picture.
  19. Glenshiro

    Strangest Thing on Your Camino?

    I've posted this before, but the chap on the unicycle south of Aire sur l'Adour still cracks me up. He'd come all the way from Paris - I often wonder if he made it to SdC?
  20. Glenshiro

    Where do ( did ) you walk ( locally ) in 2023?

    And in Albania, in the charmingly - named Accursed Mountains.

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