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  1. RevBarbaraG

    Need Your Prayers !!

    Does that explain why the passport control person looked so hard at me when I left Santiago airport? There was no record of me having entered Spain, since I flew to France. I’m British, and hence an EU citizen, at least for another 10months.
  2. RevBarbaraG

    20 truths about walking the Camino

    Most of those rang true, especially the first. When I was tired and in pain (i.e. in the afternoon), I got to the point where I responded to Buen Camino with an eye roll and silence.
  3. RevBarbaraG

    Weight Loss

    As a fully-fledged, compostela’d peregrina, I can now add my two pennor’th. In 38 days of walking, 3 days of R&R in Santiago and a day’s travelling either side, I lost 22lb. Apart from occasionally thinking I wouldn’t drink the orange juice, I ate as much as I felt like of everything that...
  4. RevBarbaraG

    Brushing up on my Spanish

    I used Babbel in preparation for my Camino and it’s been great. One or two oddities, though... I didn’t try too hard to memorise “Let’s open this tin of sardines, that one is out of date”
  5. RevBarbaraG

    The right credencial?

    Course not. They just don’t give you a Compostela. Which you may not care about. You may care more about access to albergues, which is the other thing that official credencials are supposed to give you.
  6. RevBarbaraG

    The right credencial?

    If you do take both, how do you use them.... do you get both stamped, or move on to the second if you fill the first?
  7. RevBarbaraG

    The right credencial?

    Just trying to plan.... I intend to visit the Pilgrim Office in SJPdP and can check with them (should I get a sello there?). I figured that if they told me the credencial I have was no good, I could get one from them.... leaving the other fold- out one at home for my husband to bring, as he’s...
  8. RevBarbaraG

    The right credencial?

    This is the page I was referring to, which doesn’t list the UK Confraternity? And my apologies to Ivar for calling him Oscar in my OP! https://oficinadelperegrino.com/preparacion/cofradias-en-el-mundo/
  9. RevBarbaraG

    The right credencial?

    As recommended in Brierley’s Guide, I joined the Confraternity of St James (UK) and got credencials from them for my husband and myself. We opted for the old-fashioned sort - book style, with a yellow cover. Now am just panicking slightly because the website of the Oficina del Peregrinos in SdC...
  10. RevBarbaraG

    Camino without alcohol?

    That’s the plan.... plus tea and coffee
  11. RevBarbaraG

    Camino without alcohol?

    Perhaps I should have mentioned that I don’t generally drink juices or soft drinks either as they play havoc with my blood sugar.
  12. RevBarbaraG

    Camino without alcohol?

    Excellent, thank you all for the reassurance
  13. RevBarbaraG

    Camino without alcohol?

    I’m not teetotal, but I drink only very occasionally. The idea of drinking vino tinto/ cerveza every single evening doesn’t appeal at all, though an occasional one will be nice. Is this going to be an issue? I’ve read that a lot of pilgrim menus include wine, but if you don’t want wine are you...
  14. RevBarbaraG

    Weight Loss

    I am interested in hearing from pilgrims who have done the Camino while considerably overweight.... like, morbidly obese according to BMI. This will be me, unless I can lose 16lb in the next 6 weeks. And then I will be nearly morbidly obese... Have you done it and lived to tell the tale? I’m...

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