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    Best weather app for Spain?

    I use the weather network app. I can preload all my stopping points and get a local forecast based on my location at the time. It is accurate and, unlike a website, it requires no browser navigation.
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    Spanish Induction Stove Tops...Alien Tech? or How to operate controls?

    It’s a long story with a conclusion that ends with me happily clothed in the streets of Lego… but I was *this close* to having to go out in a large towel find my beloved — who had travelled over night and then by train to find me in Lugo and walk the rest of the Primitivo with me — and get him...
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    Spanish Induction Stove Tops...Alien Tech? or How to operate controls?

    Grand idea *if* you have access to wifi/cell service. Plenty of people assert that such things are not allowed on camino. I am not among them, but I’d hazard that there are still lots of people who are vulnerable to the assertion and try to manage a camino without a phone or tablet. Second...
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    Spanish Induction Stove Tops...Alien Tech? or How to operate controls?

    Poor OP -- so many people are misreading and dismissing the question. It's the *control panel* (especially on the ones that do not obviously illuminate). I think OP and I are both well aware that the pots have to have a steel base or be cast iron in order to connect with the magnetic field...
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    Spanish Induction Stove Tops...Alien Tech? or How to operate controls?

    Yup. Same. I have an induction stove at home (LG); adult kid has one I sometimes use (Whirlpool)... use friends' induction ranges of various brands... Arrived to fantastic little apt in Arzua with great induction range! So happy!!! 2 hours later... threw in the towel and went out for dinner...
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    Camino Family Experience

    Hmmm. So... I just want to pipe in to muse a little as well... because I don't think that the camino is an individual effort at all. It only looks that way. Yes, many of us go alone, or we go sometimes with a very select group from some other part of our social lives... But there are...
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    Camino Family Experience

    That's exactly what I was dreading... the emotional stuff... Also, I think... I just don't want to mix up my casinos with my campus life.
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    Camino Family Experience

    I just declined the "opportunity" to run a field course... for exactly these reasons -- 15 people... responsible for their well-being *and* their learning outcomes?? the anxiety it induced... and I already have health things of my own to deal with.
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    Soft tips for new walkers

    15. When in doubt (about the location you are in, the location of the albergue, the nearest lavanderia, farmacia, banca, where to catch the bus/train etc etc) ask whoever is working at the bar.
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    Hospitaleros & The Pilgrim

    I’ve stayed in the Grado albergue… we had two very nice Dutch hospitaleros when we were there… I forget the details of breakfast, but I loved arriving to ice-water with lemon, biscuits and a very warm welcome. Lovely setting, nice dorm and facilities… and I quite like Grado… I also really liked...
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    Hospitaleros & The Pilgrim

    Would love to hear about your Grado experience!
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    Hospitaleros & The Pilgrim

    Am thinking about it... not for this year, but maybe for next. This year I am hoping to be able to help in the Pilgrim Office. I'm waiting for their forms to open for the 2024 season. I do very much wish to volunteer in a donativo location, or in one of the association locations (for example...
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    Are you a hiker or a walker?

    Love this thread. Thanks to @trecile for starting it. I am definitely a walker who finds myself occasionally on hiking terrain. I like to leave from my home to arrive somewhere... The rail trail that takes me to town, where I get a treat, sit by the lake... do a few things in town... maybe see...
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    Diversity on the Camino

    Exactly so… same for the trepidations of queer folk (many of whom are, indeed, religious) being legitimately fearful that the Camino is not socially safe territory. Given the facts of queer churches, of All Inclusive Masses in the Catholic Church, of queer friendly reform synagogues… I am...
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    Diversity on the Camino

    I just love this post so much, and I’m so delighted you chimed in as I hoped you would — for I cannot think of another regular poster with a Black avatar. Thank you.
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    Diversity on the Camino

    It is a good question and as noted upthread, it has a nuanced answer. There are some socio-cultural issues, and some economic disparity ones that apply to groups even though individuals may easily vary. But here’s 1 thing: many Euro-Americans grow up with leisure time and “outdoor access” that...
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    Who are you lighting a candle for?

    My mother, my aunt, my 2 uncles, my grandparents (all), my husband's grandparents, and those whose sacrifices made my EU citizenship possible. And even, in the end, for my father.
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    "3 Caminos" Series available on US Amazon Prime Video

    I agree! And thanks for the list!! (also... the reaction options were missing for me in this whoelthread so I could not give s thinmbs up. sorry)
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    Finally a camino tattoo

    While this used to be true, for the most part, it is no longer so. A well-chosen artist is only going to use inks specially made for tattooing, and without heavy metals in them. Those with allergies to things in general are advised to stay away from red pigments because they can cause an ongoing...
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    Is it possible to obtain a replacement compestela?

    It can be done, but it is easiest in person. I had a similar loss and obtained a replacement some years later when I was able to return to the office in SdC. I had tried by post, following the best instructions of @t2andreo but the office was so busy that I never did get a reply from them. When...

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