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Note that hand-washed clothes do not get the benefit of a washing machine spin cycle. Subsequently putting them in a clothes dryer may result in hard feelings and extra expense when they aren't dry after one cycle. If the weather is not conducive to hanging your hand-wash to air dry and the...
About three weeks out from SdC, I realized my thinking had switched from "three more weeks to go" to "ONLY three more weeks to go" and I began to enjoy the experience in a different way. In the last week, I started walking only 10Km a day to slow it all down, to savor it. Once in SdC, I spent a...
Oh, so many choices. But I have to say that Ensalada Mixta was my "go to" restaurant meal. The ready-to-eat Pasta & Tuna salad saved me on several occasions and Caldo Gallego was a treat.
I use those occasionally for my clothes line. They’re good IF the surface is really clean, flat, and smooth. Which is often not the case, so I also carry an over-the-door plastic hook.
I wear shirt and shorts into the bathroom, carrying a small water resistant travel tote bag that holds my fresh clothes, towel, soap, and my valuables. The bag hangs on a hook in the shower cubicle‘s dressing area, always in sight. No hook? My kit includes a plastic over-the-door hook. After...
I'm in Paris right now and it appears that the national anti-COVID lockdown put into place last night here in France, to last until December, has cancelled the film series shown in the poster. I visited the Paris Cervantes Institute website looking for information but I found nothing - no...
Albergue etiquette:
Do leave your boots in the albergue boot room or rack
Do leave your hiking poles in the pole stand
Do get a private room if you know you snore like a freight train or have sleep apnea
Don't put your pack on the albergue bed
Don't leave your clothes on the drying rack long...
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