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  1. Stivandrer

    On the Camino: One Day at a Time, one Photo at a Time 11.0

    Leaving safe ground for a harrowing crossing from La Peña Estacion to Santa Cilia, November 19, 2023
  2. Stivandrer

    The Way: how do you feel about THE movie?

    I have been thinking about the CF since 1968 and walked first time in 2014 Nice to see it afterwards and I love to revisit the small world it portrays. Everything come with a premise: This is a film about A camino, not THE Camino.. These are fictional characters, each given a certain role as...
  3. Stivandrer

    Beware of Spanish Yuletide practise

    Apparently Xmas is fraught with dangers: get farinated!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/67840081
  4. Stivandrer

    Booking.com

    All my communication with every booking that I have had on Booking.com has been through the app itself. I have never received an email.... Would it be prudent simply to be very suspicious of emails, or is the problem that the app is also compromised !??
  5. Stivandrer

    How do you count your caminos?

    It is such futile excercise to count your caminos, I find. Numbers are such teasers.....I will rather try out some of caminos there is to walk in Spain and Portugal, and make That a project...one down , more to go....
  6. Stivandrer

    Solo walkers - what kinds of food do you buy at grocery stores?

    Make a supermarket shopping on alternate days and save a lot...
  7. Stivandrer

    How has the Camino changed you.

    I am waking up every morning at 6 o´clock. Between 5:57 and 6:04!! -except today where I slept till 7:45 after 4 coughing and sniffling nights, so I deserved this late one. Very few late mornings... I usually wake up rested and want "to get on with it". Luckily I still walk to my job only 3 kms...
  8. Stivandrer

    Solo walkers - what kinds of food do you buy at grocery stores?

    Already here is a plethora of good stuff. I tend not to eat white bread at all, and I have still to find gazpacho in cartons... Another strategy is doing supermercados alternate days for the sake of variety and economy or even practicability. I cannot eat later dinners 8 pm, sleeping on a full...
  9. Stivandrer

    Any advice for when you want to quit?

    If we dwell on soreness and leg problems, there is some sense in letting a physio look at your problems and, as I found out, possibly get some instructions in KT tape. Physio will apply it if you ask... My first time out, I had lot of knee problems as my orthotics were not sufficient and my...
  10. Stivandrer

    How far do most typically walk before resting?

    Ask your friends- your feet: If you are blister-prone, you might try the 1 hour solution, which is every hour on the hour, stop take off boots/shoes, inspect and massage your feet, turn out your socks, hang them to dry on the loops of your rucksack. take dry frersh socks, alternate during the...
  11. Stivandrer

    What to do with three weeks after Santiago?

    At least consider Bilbao I had 5 days planned as a buffer and had a fixed flight out from Bilbao airport. It was the perfect decompression place, lots to see and eat, everybody spoke English I stayed in Casco Viejo which is a lively and interesting place. My wife and I went back there as her...
  12. Stivandrer

    Getting my Compostela home undamaged

    I was sure to make it come home safely too, and bought a cardboard box at the Correros office that would fit the Compostela in tube and would then fill it up with the enticing nicknacks and the extra shell for the wall that would be too good to NOT buy and fill this into the box. Tape it up...
  13. Stivandrer

    Albergue idea - group snorers together, away from non-snorers

    Think of the dorms at the Albergue as 3rd class on a railway. It is here the sounds and smells of the common man are as he lives and breathes. Or she.... Smells will be emitted, toilet doors banged in the night, snores in three part disharmony.... Think this as facts of life and draw your own...
  14. Stivandrer

    Succinct advice

    " There is a road, no simple highway" quote from The Ripple by the Grateful Dead
  15. Stivandrer

    The why of a 2nd, 3rd or 17th Camino

    ..and most obviously: Why not ..!!
  16. Stivandrer

    The 3 most 'memorable' Albergues you stayed in - and Why

    Ditto to Grañón 's San Juan de Bautista, Santa Maria at Carrion de los Condes and Casa Peregrino Emaús in Burgos
  17. Stivandrer

    Water Sources. Fonts, accommodation taps, bottled water

    A small,stubby hardy bottle is in the Nalgene series. Free for BPA and BSP & phalates. 0.5 liter I have one of these in my one side pocket of my Osprey Kestrel. will take hot water and will go under a low tap. to be had as wide mouth or narrow mouth. in the other pocket I have a stainless...
  18. Stivandrer

    Intermittent fasting on the Camino

    I have IF days where breakfast time is 10a.m.. My job is sleeping 24 hr watches, and going off in the morning, I often go through the morning on just a coffee and water... On the camino I often have early waking up hours and will some days walk until I hit my 10 o´clock and the the first proper...
  19. Stivandrer

    My Camino ended a few hours ago sadly, need to get back to UK asap

    Get home safe The Camino awaits to be revisited....
  20. Stivandrer

    Bikes and Graffitti

    I, for one, do not know exactly what is expected of me, when I am shouted at from behind. Good traffic logic is for cyclists to use the bell, which not many seem to use/ or to have as the case might be. What is being shouted? "coming on your left"?, if it is in English - but cyclist are also...

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