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  1. Phil W

    Camino Dating

    Yes, still together, still walking, and still hospitaleroing.
  2. Phil W

    Camino Dating

    You are always attractive to me!
  3. Phil W

    Where do ( did ) you walk locally in 2024?

    I really enjoyed it. It was a bucket list item for many years.
  4. Phil W

    Where do ( did ) you walk locally in 2024?

    Sorry about that. I'll have Janet show me how to post thumbnails. I also used chrome and it automatically logged me in as Janet. Oops! Phil
  5. Phil W

    Legal Changes Coming for Spanish Accommodations

    I have volunteered in several donativo albergues. Yes we kept a guest register written by hand. We were not required, nor did we have the means, to submit this to the police forces. They were welcome to stop in and inspect the register and copy any information that they needed. In six years of...
  6. Phil W

    Anyone here resembling this cartoon?

    Tom, I feel the same way. The Camino de Santiago for me has been and still is "healing" for me. I've been back every year since (except for 2020 during the pandemic) volunteering and walking. It's in my mind daily and I guess it's in my blood. It is a part of me. Phil
  7. Phil W

    Sampler ideas

    Okay, I've tried both the tortilla and the apple cheesecake (I ate more than just one piece of the cheesecake). They are both good. Students will probably like both. Although the tortilla may be somewhat strange for them. After a few days on the Camino, they will come to really enjoy a piece of...
  8. Phil W

    Donating in donativos

    The donativo covers the bills and other costs, not the church or other organization.
  9. Phil W

    Donating in donativos

    I love Granon!
  10. Phil W

    Donating in donativos

    Perhaps we have had different experiences. I do donate more in donativos than I pay in private accommodations. I do this so that the albergue can afford to keep operating when hosting those pilgrims less able to leave a donation. As a hospitalero, I volunteer in only donativos operated by a...
  11. Phil W

    What’s better than walking a Camino ?

    I also live serving as a hospitalero! People think @J Willhaus and I must be crazy to save our money to go cleanup after others but we do it gladly.
  12. Phil W

    Count down! 28 "sleeps", then Spain!

    Please let us know how you are doing during your Camino. Buen Camino!
  13. Phil W

    Baggage forwarders - FYI

    Also Hosvol staffed albergues are donativos.
  14. Phil W

    Baggage forwarders - FYI

    No problem and yes some albergues do not take responsibility for bag transfers. I must have misunderstood what you were saying. My apologies. Phil
  15. Phil W

    Baggage forwarders - FYI

    I was also on my own there. This is on an optional route. Even so I was full a couple of times. I liked Calzadilla de los Hermanillos.
  16. Phil W

    Baggage forwarders - FYI

    Perhaps, but is is a municipal and they may changed their guidance to hosptaleros. If so that is on them and not the hospitaleros who normally don't handle baggage. Recent guidance from Hosvol is to not accept bag transfered bags. That can out in the Hosvol newsletter we got this week...
  17. Phil W

    Baggage forwarders - FYI

    Too bad it is closed. The couple who ran it were really nice.
  18. Phil W

    Baggage forwarders - FYI

    Having volunteered in Calzadilla de los Hermanillos, I think this is the HOSVOL albergue there. If so, they did not accept bags when I volunteered there. I agree that the people there are really pilgrim friendly and saw it on more than one occasion. If the bag was shipped to Calzadilla de los...
  19. Phil W

    Joint Credencial?

    As an experienced hospitalero every pilgrim wishing to stay where I am volunteering must provide their credential. No credential, no bed. I volunteer in parochial and municipal donativo (donation only) albergues. Each albergue has rules, some of which are common to the association that...
  20. Phil W

    Wake up alarm

    Yes, Janet likes early, at home and on the Camino.

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