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    Bed Bugs

    One of the few good things about the pandemic is that many of the albergues whom didn´t opened theirs doors collaterally killed the bedbugs, if they had any. Others whom keep opened, due the anti covid measures deeply deinfected and fumigated theisr facilities more frequently. In addition of...
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    Fun Camino stories

    The same here. Spanish is a mix of Greek, Celtic, Iberian, Latin, Germanic, Arabic, English... Actually there are only a few of "pure" languages.
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    Fun Camino stories

    Well, that`s what you, a non Spanish native speaker think. Do you know what? I think exactly the same about English, sometimes when I´m trying to speak English, can feel like Shakespeare´s bones are stiring inside his tomb. For me its very difficul to figure the correct pronunciation of many...
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    Fun Camino stories

    Hello Rebekah. My two cents. That it´s not totally true. Speaking about certain professions and circunstances it´s absolutely correct to say "retirado": " Pedro es coronel retirado" if you refer to a Colonel who voluntarily lefth the military before his legal age of retirement, for example...
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    Self- catering - no utensils in Galicia

    Well, there are some Xunta´s albergues equiped with some stuff. All of them where equiped when were inaugurated. Some or those that are "not equiped" nowadays, still have a few pans, plates etc that have been keeped away by the "hospitalero" (remember, many of them are not very well paid...
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    Self- catering - no utensils in Galicia

    You are rigth. There are lots of people who do not clean up. But those people who start walking at Roncesvalles, or Irun, Sevilla etc are much more less than the 100 km walkers, and they learn all along the Way to clean their plates. (Many of then honestly belive the staff will do it) Usually...
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    Self- catering - no utensils in Galicia

    If you ask former hospitaleros in Xunta´s albergues you´ll get the answer to that "mystery": Being the last 100 kmts walked by so many pilgrims, some of them are not aware, or not respectuous of that simple rule: "Clean what you use" After day after day cleaning used pans, dirty plates, greasy...
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    Poem for our time written by Sister Lucia of the Discalced Carmelites in Antequera

    Will she the Spring knows we all are waiting for her ...? Will she dares to cross our depopulated towns, hanging on our balconies The magic of its geraniums? Will she leaves her smile sculpted in our fields, painting our gardens green, red and white? will she, the Springtime knows...
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    Selfishness

    I´m feeling like all of us, forum member are having a bad case of selfishness. Many of us are complaining about OUR fligths cancellations, OUR own isolation, OUR cancelled plans, OUR… But no one of us are thinking in those in-the-camino stuck in those that are waiting for us year after year ...
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    An effective solution to trash? Maybe someday. :-)

    I always feel safer when I see the badge of the Cuardia Civil. Always. I have nothing to fear from police.
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    An effective solution to trash? Maybe someday. :-)

    In that times you are writting about, more than 1.000 persons where killed in Spain by terrorists, many of them policemen and Civil Guards, but many others were children , women, workers, politicians, journalists... They could apeears menacing , but thank to those men and women with their...
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    Help! Is this feasible? Crazy?

    If you are our of shape or in need of a little of training, you can walk the Primitivo from Oviedo. Usually it takes 12/13 days, but doing shorter stages at the beginning you have time to rest if necessary and those days served as training. Also, in case you can walk it quickly, can have a three...
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    A positive Spanish music thread

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    Donativo - How much is enough/too much?

    Do you know how the donativo thing started? Twenty five or thirty years ago a drunk english man arrived at Grañon; in the cold nigth he took shelter in the main door of the church, (there was not albergue there in those years) but the priest guided him to his house, gave him some soup and...
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    Donativo - How much is enough/too much?

    I dont know where this albergue is, how the hospitalero was, and what organization they are members, but HOSVOL, the organization I am member, have two mandatory compliance rules. If the owners of the albergue (parish, municipal, Amigo´s fundations.etc) disagree it, we simply dont serve there...
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    Donativo - How much is enough/too much?

    Sadly many pilgrims who are richer enougth to pay for a round of drinks are financially uncapable to let a single 5 euros bill in the box. When an hospi have in the albergue a group of people, eating, sleeping, having long hot showers, partyng in the bar all the evening long, taking sandwiches...
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    Rubicon

    I think Davebug took a lot of wrong decisions. The first one was not let the police took this bastard to the judge. I think a nigth sleeping in a dungeon in a police station would be exemplary for him. Im sure he would love to trow wine to their mates at the dungeon. Usually that kind of person...
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    A positive Spanish music thread

    Here it is my imput to a good thread. A luar na lubre and Luz Casal Camariñas.
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    Making my own credencial?

    Hi all. Not being interested about receiving the compostela, I´ve walked diferents caminos with all kind of credentials. handmade credentials, a diary book, camino asociation´s credentials...NEVER the one issued by Santiago´s Pilgrims Office. I`ve never had problems to be accepted in any...
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    Holy Week 2018 - Question

    Hi t2andreo. Sorry to say it, but I must contradict you. What you call quicentana is not a Iberian deal, but a Sud American one. Belive me, twenty years ago, nobody nows what kind of celebration was this. What we knew was the "Puesta de largo" ( The moment a girl wears her first "Long Skirt...

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