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  1. Silvester

    Ancestry town- where roots and i meet up

    Mine were expelled too and ended up in Scotland. I had great delight in walking past the castle of Valdes y Salas in Salas (which was looming out of the mist that day) and saying "But we survived and thrived!"
  2. Silvester

    Alert Steep inclines / declines..... Advice

    In addition to my Pacer Poles and carefully zigzagging, I made sure to stop before a steep descent and tighten my laces to keep my ankle firmly in place and take the pressure off my toes - which avoided blisters.
  3. Silvester

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

    Based on Duolingo Spanish I thought an empanada was a kind of filled roll. I also read that ham had several different names and would appear in the most vegetarian of places. So we walked into a bakery for breakfast one day and the empanadas looked more like Cornish pasties. I read the labels...
  4. Silvester

    The ignorance of the English language...

    It's pointing the way to a fresh pork supply?
  5. Silvester

    Hiking Poles hand luggage in Planes ?

    For what it's worth... My pacer poles travelled with rubber tips, collapsed, inside my sole piece of luggage - my camino backpack - as cabin baggage without any hassle on Singapore and Vueling Airlines through Wellington/Auckland/Changi/Barcelona/Valladolid. BUT the flight out of Santiago de...
  6. Silvester

    Start of my Cancer Camino

    Hi Gitti May you have courage, strength, peace and health in abundance. I noticed after a while on my recent camino that the markers only indicate you're on the right track, but don't give any detail about how far, how hard, what's around the corner. It spoke to me of walking in the light given...
  7. Silvester

    Security at Santiago airport

    I flew with my (nonmetal) pacer poles dismantled in a lightweight sac inside my backpack which I carried on as cabin baggage. NZ domestic flights were fine, Singapore. Vallododilid and Barcelona were fine. While I was on camino I also bought a small swiss army knife which I suspected I would...
  8. Silvester

    Camino for Charity - Good Idea or Not?

    I'm thinking that although walking so many km seems made for fundraising, I don't want to feel obligated or pressured to do anything. So the idea of a retrospective campaign for funds appeals. I hadn't thought of this angle before.
  9. Silvester

    What about food??

    I baked madeleines for the first time with my granddaughters and we were struck with the shell moulds - more like cockle shells than scallops though. I'm curious if madeleines feature in pastry shops along the camino routes in Spain.
  10. Silvester

    fundraising

    I'd been thinking that seeing as I was going to clock up so many kilometres, it would be great to use my mileage as a fundraiser and I started out with a couple of recipients in mind. Then I considered the hassles of handling two lots of monies and decided to opt only for our local hospice and...
  11. Silvester

    Mass and Communion on the Camino

    When I have attended a Mass in NZ as a non-Catholic but committed Christian, I was told to cross my arms across my chest like an X and the priest or deacon would pray a blessing instead. On these few occasions, I've been officially blessed and avoided offending the clergy. Is this practice also...
  12. Silvester

    GPS vs. phone vs. camera

    I hadn't thought of a pedometer. I have a history of breaking them - mainly dropping them - or they wriggle around my waistband and give me an inaccurately low reading. I tried clipping one to my bra where it was very accurate until sadly I got blisters! I need to track down a pedometer that...
  13. Silvester

    GPS vs. phone vs. camera

    I'm a complete digital immigrant and I don't even have an iphone or a smartphone so all you digital natives please bear with my ignorance. In NZ I've found that there are huge gaps in cellphone coverage when in the mountains - usually in the more remote bits and in forested valleys - and so I'm...
  14. Silvester

    GPS vs. phone vs. camera

    Hi Laurie I looked up your model of camera and read "The Canon SX260 HS also offers built-in GPS with included Map Utility software and GPS logger function". Have you used the GPS etc functionality and if so what do you think of it? Thanks Mary
  15. Silvester

    To those preparing for Camino who have suffered loss

    Good opening post David. For what it's worth: I'm thinking that grief is also a journey on which you find that in the midst of your own private pain something attunes complete strangers to share theirs and the gift seems to be to be able to listen and bear witness with them. The strange thing...
  16. Silvester

    What issues arise when walking with a companion?

    On most of the routes I would not have a problem with walking alone for most of the time. However, I have misgivings about going solo on sections of say the San Salvador or the Pyrennees section of the Frances where the route may not be so clear and in low visibility or bad weather or later in...

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