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  1. Arctic_Alex

    Chilly camino

    Your avatar clearly indicates you are a fluffy bear and those indeed should fear rain as they get all soaked up! BTW, who is the guy posing to the left of you?
  2. Arctic_Alex

    Chilly camino

    If you bribe me well I might stop my rain dance rites I have been performing for days now ...
  3. Arctic_Alex

    What would you change about the CF - if you could?

    I would not change much as I think also the bad and the "ugly" are part of the overall experience. And as one is on the road for 3 / 4 weeks at least, the less nice parts dilute to very little in fact. Also, you appreciate the good things more if you have at least some contrasting things ...
  4. Arctic_Alex

    If you had to choose to skip a part of the route. What would be your choice?

    It might not be as picturesque as Antigua (been there a couple of years ago) ;-) ... but miles of nothing is something many people cannot get where they live. It is an experience very different from their normal life. Also, some people need the nothing to empty their head, others need it to fill...
  5. Arctic_Alex

    If you had to choose to skip a part of the route. What would be your choice?

    Not at all, it is interesting to me at least.
  6. Arctic_Alex

    If you had to choose to skip a part of the route. What would be your choice?

    Buen Camino! :cool:
  7. Arctic_Alex

    If you had to choose to skip a part of the route. What would be your choice?

    But that leaves you with less than 22 k per day which is maybe less stressful than you think as you might develop hikers legs along the way. But that was not your question, I know :) I personally would never cut any part from the middle as it does not work for me psychologically. That said, I...
  8. Arctic_Alex

    Memorable Meals

    ok, as I was blowing the same horn I will erase my earlier post. But on the other hand I think it is quite nice that words posted on here lead to people reflect about concepts and ideas. I saw nothing personal or judgmental in that.
  9. Arctic_Alex

    Memorable Meals

    "that person" was as far as I read it just saying that wherever you decide to sleep and eat and how you do a camino overall does not define if you are a pilgrim or not. You do not "disqualify" yourself by whatever choice you make in all this. I thought that was actually nice... and it is more...
  10. Arctic_Alex

    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    😎
  11. Arctic_Alex

    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    I must live in a different world (which could actually be the case with respect to geography and culture), as I never saw these things attributed to men only, not in magazines/catalogues. It is more like heaps of equipment presented gender neutral, except when it comes to real anatomical...
  12. Arctic_Alex

    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    Thanks for clarification. I was so shocked by the possibility of a discrimination by gender that i did not read fully ... 🙈 .. also I am in the middle of a snow storm so I am distracted. 🤣
  13. Arctic_Alex

    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    i have friends near Abisko. Just 3 hrs drive from here.
  14. Arctic_Alex

    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    Northern Sweden would that be.
  15. Arctic_Alex

    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    😢 Still those are not the workhorse publications, but those who go for sensationalism. But sad nevertheless. Maybe it is good that I left science a good while ago.
  16. Arctic_Alex

    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    And they have gender specific sections?? 🥶 I know that Nature and Science already a decade ago started becoming a bit ... ordinary. But that is something hard to imagine. Or something I do not want to imagine.
  17. Arctic_Alex

    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    Science magazines of that kind (e.g. not peer reviewed journals where you submit your articles as a scientist) are not science but only meant for entertainment.
  18. Arctic_Alex

    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    I can assure you that every time I go on a Camino or any other kind of travel abroad I get the same question! 🤣 ... and I am male and a seasoned hiker, done many lengthy expedition style solo hikes in the wild and wherever - still it happens all the time. People just do not get it because they...
  19. Arctic_Alex

    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    When I quit my last job as an employee to take a break and do some "crazy" things, my that time boss said he wished he would be brave enough to do the same. ;-)
  20. Arctic_Alex

    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    One could add that the first half of the text is in fact not so unsimilar to what male future pilgrims often experience. This probably does not stem from being male or female, but from the inability of people to understand why one wants to do it. Why walk a camino. They do not know what it is...

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