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  1. Rob the Slob

    How to train for downhill walking

    You can strengthen the muscles in your thighs by doing squats. Ideally, though, you should take some aikido classes: that will really firm up your thighs for the downhills.
  2. Rob the Slob

    Camino for cats

    Puss in Boots, or trailrunners, or sandals. They should wear what works best for them!
  3. Rob the Slob

    10 stages, any Camino: the most beautiful?

    I can't claim to have walked more than a couple of hundred Camino kilometres, but the second stage of the Madrid, from Tres Cantos to Manzanares el Real, is some of the loveliest walking I've ever experienced anywhere.
  4. Rob the Slob

    Menu peregrino: a close call

    It's a popular place. I had a look at the reservations book: "HeidiL, party of 2" "Eagle family, party of 5 (one diner lactose intolerant)"
  5. Rob the Slob

    Menu peregrino: a close call

    This afternoon, walking from Tres Cantos to Manzanares on the Camino de Madrid, I decided to take a break on a hilltop. The sun was shining, I was tired, and I found a concrete slab where I arranged my pack as a pillow and lay down. I put on some relaxing tunes on my iPod and pulled my cap down...
  6. Rob the Slob

    Pre Camino anxiety

    I don't have any training as a psychologist, but it seems to me that your brain is telling you that you're prepared for anything the Camino can throw at you.
  7. Rob the Slob

    Doing the camino unplugged

    A smartphone or tablet is also a wonderful tool for having flowers delivered to your wife back at home while you're away.
  8. Rob the Slob

    My Ultimate Camino - who would you invite?

    Dara O'Briain for the jokes, Bill Bryson because then I might become the new version of Katz, Andre the Giant to carry our packs, and possibly ourselves, and Shakira because any mountain would be a joy to climb if she's leading the way.
  9. Rob the Slob

    Camino for cats

    I just stumbled across an article on the BBC site (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35890789) about the resurgence of lynxes in Spain and Portugal. It makes for an interesting read, but what got me was the bit about the non-territorial lynxes, the ones that wander. Specifically, according to the...
  10. Rob the Slob

    Is this the question there is no answer for?

    @Jeff Crawley, thanks for the tip! I found Henty's collected works on Kobo for a few euros and downloaded them. I have to admit, one of the reasons I want to walk the Camino de Madrid is to see the area where Wellington's armies marched and manoeuvred. One of my favourite reads is The Spanish...
  11. Rob the Slob

    Is this the question there is no answer for?

    Sharpe's Rifles, by Bernard Cornwell.
  12. Rob the Slob

    Keep my calluses?

    Just bear in mind that you can also develop blisters under your calluses.
  13. Rob the Slob

    Mothers/Mothering Day

    Thanks! You're entirely right -- I do deserve it!
  14. Rob the Slob

    Tapas etiquette

    Whenever my wife and I are in Spain, we tend to order whatever and however may tapas we want. Sometimes this goes along the lines of "we'll have one of each except this and this." No one has ever taken offence, at least that we know, and no one has ever blinked an eye at any of our choices of...
  15. Rob the Slob

    Are you pilgrim or walker?

    Etymologically closer to a pilgrim than a walker. Though now that I think about it, my desire to crosss half od Spain on foot, for little reason other than to do it, probably means I'm a pilgrim of walking. (Does that make any sense, or only in my head?)
  16. Rob the Slob

    Living on the camino/long term pilgrimage

    They caught a wanted criminal on the Appalachian Trail a while ago, I see to recall.
  17. Rob the Slob

    Introvert or Extrovert?

    They're all jumpjng up and down in front of their computers and shouting "I'm an extrovert! I'm an extrovert!"
  18. Rob the Slob

    You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

    Surely we're travelling up to Murrayfield this weekend? I certainly hope so, because even as a diehard Englishman I love to hear the home rendition of "Flower of Scotland" -- the crowd, the pipes, the big guns.
  19. Rob the Slob

    Camino Jokes

    A holy man was on a pilgrimage to Santiago. One day he was passing through a remote rural area, seeing not a soul. As the sun was setting and he was resigning himself to a cold and hungry night in the open, he saw lights in the distance -- a farmhouse! He made his way over and knocked on the...
  20. Rob the Slob

    Do you ever get confused as to which bano/servicio to use on the Camino?

    It means "Men must use pogo sticks."

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