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    Have you ever been offered a job/work from someone you've me

    And at 2:15am we have a little pilgrim baby girl.... Galicia Elena. How's that for a name? They are babymooning now and were happy to let our forum know. Happy Easter, Lillian
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    Orujo de Hierbas - digestif, pain killer, conversation start

    I found it to be very smooth going down. Like a fine brandy. I was able to bring a bottle of it home from SDC. A chupito at a time until, alas, it was gone. Lillian
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    Have you ever been offered a job/work from someone you've me

    This is kinda sorta a job..... at this very moment I am at my birthing center with a couple who I met through this forum. I met them 2 or 3 years ago and when they got pregnant, guess who got to be their midwife? She is laboring beautifully right now and I suspect we will have a little pilgrim...
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    Review of the Martin Sheen movie

    Call me impatient, but does a movie have to wait that long to be released? :roll: Lillian
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    Hair

    You never run out of hot water there. THere is hot water for all or there is no hot water at all. I had long hair for 2 caminos and short hair for 2 caminos. I colored it as well when it was long. I had silver roots a couple of weeks into the walk as my hair grows fast and thought I looked...
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    BEDBUG update and Villafranca de Bierzo

    I met one of our fellow Aussie forum members on the LePuy route late August and she was covered by bed bug bites. So they are there as well. I took pictures of her and maybe when she is able she will post them. It is quite the sight. Lillian
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    Pimientos de Padron - Russian roulette of peppers!

    On this trip, it was the first racion I asked for when I arrived, and it was the last thing I ate the night before I left. I brought home some seeds back in May-June trip and I hope I can remember where I put them and that they can grow here. They are soooooo yummy. And definitely not as hot...
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    PLASTIC BAGS!!!!

    On this last trip: I used a small mesh bag for my toiletries. I use a poncho that covers my pack as well as me. I pin moist clothes to the outside of my backpack. Other than a snack sized ziplock for my Qtips I used no plastic bags this trip and all was fine without them. It can be done. I...
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    Best tapa in Spain??

    In Logroño the bar I went to called it Shandy. Other places they called it Clara. Had one this afternoon here in TallyTown. Indeed it is very refreshing. I found that tapas are good or plain or excellent anywhere I went. In San Sebastian they were incredible and the price was incredibly...
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    If we could walk the Camino with this joy!

    Here is a couple dancing the Camino.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfu2L7DzkhM
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    Queimada

    Thank you all. Right now I am doing a little touring in Spain (was just in Ibiza at the invite of a German peregrina.... Ibiza is another story!!) and will be home July 9th. Then I will post my pics. So many great stories to tell as well. LOVE
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    Queimada

    In the municipal albergue last night in Pedrouzo, a husband and wife team did one. She did the encanto that Javier just wrote and the man played the gaita. Then people clapped and danced and got all silly. There were many people and all had a great time. My first time seeing one, and I also...
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    Currency ($ to E)

    Well..... that went through, so I will try again. I called this past Friday, the Wells Fargo bank (800-626-9430), and they can exchange dollars for euros for you. They charge $6.50 for shipping through FedEx. Their exchange rate was 4 cents above the official exchange rate. That is better...
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    Currency ($ to E)

    I have posted twice to this thread and it is not coming through. hmmm :|
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    Bed bugs alert

    I spent three days in an albergue in Burgos and every morning the hospitalero would sweep and mop . He would check the beds then spray all around the corners, baseboards and under beds. I would leave and return later because I knew better than he that we are talking poisons and he said they...
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    Want to try a new Camino

    Then again, you can be a repeat offender and end up walking all of them. Bah to the wrinkled prune!
  17. M

    Want to try a new Camino

    No, it is not. There was only one stretch that is long, without the usual albergue. That part was by the Arco de Caparra. What we did, along with about 6 others was to wait at the arco and be picked up by a driver for a hostal several kms away from the Via. Then the next day we walked from...
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    Want to try a new Camino

    I went to the Via earlier than you are planning and there were pilgrims most of the route. I was alone in albergues a few times only. You are going later than I did and will probably see more. Now I do know that the census drops in late July and August due to the heat. When I would read...
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    How to post photos

    OK, going to try again because I was getting the same message as Rebekah. This was to be under the thread "Is it Safe?"
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    Credit Cards on the Caminos

    I went to that website and after not believing what I read, I called the company and sure enough those Travelex cards cannot be sold in several states, including Florida. Crazy rules. I will keep searching, there has to be others out there. Lillian

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