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  1. ShellsG

    CF - Albergue Kitchen Etiquette?

    Or you could take the opportunity to instruct them on the correct use. You don't have to announce you are a chef .... many a great home cook knows how to use a knife properly (just sayin'). Unfortunately I told someone what I do for a profession and I became the nursemaid. I would more than...
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    CF - Albergue Kitchen Etiquette?

    Funny story (sort of anyway). I was staying in a very small village albergue and had stopped early because of the heat. Sitting out on a patio area was a group enjoying an afternoon beverage (or two or three). The most prominent couple (older,loud, boisterous) were not staying at the albergue...
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    Tarta de Santiago

    Copy a picture and cut your own stencil would be the cheapest and easiest, light cardboard and a xacto knife
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    What to drink in Spain II

    In my experience, a red wine is best served slightly below room temperature. When the room temperature is 35C then a room temperature wine would be, to me, unpleasantly warm. I do not find it uncommon for red wine to be chilled throughout many European countries. I prefer a chilled red wine...
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    What to drink in Spain II

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    Walking in the rain

    I live on the wet coast so rain is part of life but oh my goodness the rain in Spain just about did me in. Walking on the highway in heavy heavy rain and wind because if you walked on the trail the water was well over ankle deep. If it hadn't been for a young German girl who went by singing I...
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    Yet another thread about walking alone

    But just when I would think I was in the clear I would sit down to dinner and hear that voice !! That voice would make me drop my head to my hands and cry a little tear and shake my head and say no ... no... it can't be. Yet, it was.
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    Yet another thread about walking alone

    I have only walked one Camino so far but in planning for my next I wonder about how solitary I want to be. I work in a very busy, noisy environment and nothing suits me more than hiding away on my own on my off duty hours. I like my own company but if I do a Camino I think I want the...
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    Foodie finds on the Camino!!

    I didn't mind the boring old pilgrims meals when I knew that I could experience an amazing meal at some point. Have to say that the tapas in Pamplona were simply the best. I stayed an extra night in a terrible little pension to save money so I could go out for tapas again.
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    Which "WAY" to go

    I am torn. I walked the CF from Aug - Oct. 2015. I am planning another Camino and while I had it in my head it would be the CF again now I am torn between the CF and the VdlP. I have planned for next fall. I like aspects of both, I like the idea of doing the CF again partly (but not...
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    The food of the Santiago's pilgrim!

    Ah, but he made me think about so many wonderful things and people that the project may be done but I am just beginning again!
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    Carrying stones...

    When I set out on my Camino last year I toyed with the idea of the stone but couldn't really determine what I felt it would mean to me. I almost felt like I was doing it because I felt it was what a pilgrim was supposed to do. I did research and thought on it and decided that it wasn't for me...
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    The food of the Santiago's pilgrim!

    I didn't embark on the Camino in search of amazing food yet in many ways I found it. I grew tired of the bocadillos and the mountains of bread yet having said that dipping that mountain of bread into amazing olive oil and sprinkled with salt is one of my best memories (esp if there was a beer...
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    Delicate subject - catholes

    Well off topic but on topic I have to say this ... on my Camino last fall I came across a lady crawling out of pretty thick brush, pulling up her pants, with her full backpack on AND smoking a cigarette .... and all I could think was DAMN, thats talent..
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    Will they hate me?

    Life in the alberques was one of the biggest challenges of my Camino but one of the best parts of my Camino. In Puente la Reina two of the lower bunks were taken by two ladies who kept everyone awake late packing their bags, they woke at 0530 and repacked their bags (all the while flashing...
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    Are we making it all too easy?

    Oh the world can be a funny place and we who reside on her even funnier. Travel and the ability to do so, has changed so much since the 60's, 70's and 80's. When I travelled to South America on a vacation in the 80's I had no resources beyond a guide book had I chosen to purchase one. I had...
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    Teens and early twenties on the camino?

    I think teens and young adults should be a welcome addition to the Camino. I met only one group of students after Sarria, yes they had music blaring and yes they were chatty and loud but what a breath of fresh air they were. As the adult that was travelling with them said .. the young people...
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    Home from Camino

    But it doesn't change the experience does it.
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    Home from Camino

    There was no attempt to translate it into Latin, the mis-spelling came as he copied my name off my passport but copied it wrong. It was 900 am, hopefully his day didn't get any busier, there were only about 15 in line at that point. I will accept it, but it doesn't make the final moments of my...
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    Home from Camino

    I just returned home from walking the Camino Frances. I was all I expected and none of what I expected! Happy to be home after 24 hours of travel I know I will mull over my experience and it will change from day to day as I return to my pre-Camino life. I actually missed the snoring last...

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