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    Arty cartoons on the camino

    Yuk! Great artistry, but........ Please, please, PLEASE don't let anyone start a "compare photos of messed up feet" thread... everytime I get the smallest blister I think of Sils photo of her raw heels..........!
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    Stray dogs on the camino

    I had two encounters on the camino ingles with vicious farm dogs - and I do mean vicious and not just harmlessly noisy. Both times involved a pair of dogs, unleashed, with no evidence of owners to call them to heel. None of the dogs were huge but the second pair were especially determined to...
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    Happy New Year!

    Happy New Ivar and Maria, With your new venture getting under way it will be an exciting year for you! I'm looking forward to seeing you in action in your office at Easter. Wishing you all the very best for 2009. Laura
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    Pilgrims events in London - dates for your diary

    Thanks to the CSJ and John for organising this event, it was great to meet some forum members in the flesh at last! The service, especially the music, was wonderful. There were some lovely touches including the yellow flechas leading to the church, and our re-creation of the botufumiero! The...
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    Am I (becoming) a grumpy old man???

    Brilliant post Sil. Would love to meet Tim Graham on the camino one day! Can't wait to share this with a few people, not least my two university student children. It reminded me of a hilarious article in the Times a couple of years ago (cut out and still yellowing under a magnet on my fridge)...
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    Am I (becoming) a grumpy old man???

    There is a book I have been meaning to recommend to forum readers for some time and this thread has reminded me to do it... It is "Ghosts of Spain" by Giles Tremlett. It is subtitled "Travels through a Country's Hidden Past". Part of the blurb on the jacket reads "Spaniards are reputed to be...
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    Bomb explodes outside Pamplona University

    http://www.rtve.es/noticias has footage of this if anyone wants to see more info.
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    9 month contract teaching job in Ponferrada

    I am currently in week two of a 30 week (1 day a week) Celta course. I know it can be done in a month of full-time intensive teaching too but this is generally not recommended as it is quite a demanding course. So far it has been really interesting but I can see the workload is going to be...
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    Another new photostream on You Tube!

    Hi Trudy Thanks for sharing your photos - truly lovely. As Lillian says, they bring back lots of happy memories. Its always interesting to see how many of us must have stood in exactly the same spot and have taken almost identical photos! Regards, Laura
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    Bed bugs alert

    Hi Lynne I bought a second bed bug sheet this year for my son on ebay. It was new and the same Lifesystems brand as the one I already have. Could be worth a try as lots of ebay traders post worldwide. Impossible to be sure if they work or not - they are a little on the small side - but...
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    Bed bugs alert

    Hi Annette So glad to hear you survived the bedbugs! Just wanted to be sure that you know that some people are bitten but show absolutely no reaction to the bites. Whilst I hope they really did find you not to their taste, it might be both worth bearing in mind that you may still be carrying...
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    Bed bugs alert

    Not sure about that one Rebekah. I walked between Burgos and Leon in November and met several people with terrible bedbug bites. I know the bugs can go for long periods without feeding but I think the temperatures have to be pretty low before they stop going on manoeuvres. All the albergues I...
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    Insect Alerts!

    Gareth, first let me congratulate you on your amazing achievement, what a shame it ended on such an itchy note. I believe freezing does work - I treated all my kit that way when I got home and had no further problems, thank goodness. However I read that you had to freeze things for 72 hours...
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    Insect Alerts!

    Oh happy memories of Astorga 2007!! I think it was a really good idea to publish a photo of the effects of being bitten by bed bugs as I don't think many people are aware of how much more serious bed bug bites can be compared to say fleas. Forewarned is forearmed as they say so its in all our...
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    Scallop Shell

    The shells generally have two holes drilled in the corners of the 'wings' (oops just shown complete ignorance of shell atanomy..) and has a string threaded through so you can tie it to your backpack. Pretty common on the camino frances but I havn't done the ingles yet so don't know how...
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    The sun is out

    hmmm... Having recently returned from walking for two weeks in relentless rain through Gailicia Im not sure I wanted to know that! I am considering walking the Camino Ingles at the end of August with my son. Do you think this will be sensible in the heat? Is the path fairly shaded by the trees...
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    Bedbugs and Fleas

    I agree that chemicals are a last resort but sometimes they are the only recourse in a bad situation. I was using a bedbug sheet the time I was bitten. I woke up covered in bites and found dozens of them trapped between my sleeping bag and the bedbug sheet. I can only assume they dropped down...
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    Bedbugs and Fleas

    Hi. Just back from Caminos Frances and Fisterra. I only saw one person with bedbug bites -in Olveiroa. There was no confusing them with flea bites - much bigger and more inflammed. Having been badly bitten last year I was carrying spray to treat my bedding etc and lotion to soothe bites and I...
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    bed bugs

    You are right Rebekah, bugs must travel with the pilgrims but I think that both the people travelling and the people running the albergues are sometimes too embarrassed to admit they have a problem and therefore it is not addressed until it gets out of hand. When I showed the hospitalero in...
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    bed bugs

    I have often read that one way determining whether a place is infested with bedbugs is by the 'distinctive smell' but have had no idea how to distinguish what this smell might be. (Lets be honest, until everyone is showered and refreshed there are enough smells in an average albergue to stop a...

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