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    Re: Current Lunch Prices

    … and while one might receive a whole bottle on the table, it is a bottle for the table… a single person is not expected to consume it all. The bottles are topped up on each turn-over from the house barrels and it’s easier for them in terms of service. Just like the ever-present bottle of...
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    Conditions on Napoleon today (April 27)

    Maybe? It depends on whether I decide tomorrow to pop in an eSIM… It is more likely that I will do a summary at the end (when I get a SIM in Pamplona to carry on to other routes).
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    Cheap bank ATM fees?

    For the Americans.
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    Cheap bank ATM fees?

    Nope... totally *brutal*. It's been worse though... The year I lived in Dublin, my 600 euro bed-sit was costing me about $1100 a month -- and that was on SWIFT transactions! At any rate, I have never had anything to complain about really with the ATM fees. I recommend taking out 300 euros at...
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    Cheap bank ATM fees?

    Yes, but most banks charge a fee for the exchange. Where I live the fee takes it to about $1.53 to the euro, about 20 cents more per euro than the actual exchange rate. The only place with worse rates is the local international airport. It makes better sense for me to change money when I land...
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    Conditions on Napoleon today (April 27)

    I’m not there yet, but the forecast looks terrible. An acquaintance was up there 2 days ago having spent the previous night at Borda and walking out in the morning. Around mid-day he said the Napoleon was closed but he was already at Leopoder and had to make his way to Roncesvalles in awful...
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    Cheap bank ATM fees?

    $56 on 300 sounds like the exchange rate, not the ATM fee.
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    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    If we stop thinking only of the wealthiest women in the wealthiest nations (who are not at all representative of the global population), I would place the observation in the immediate tense. Do the poorest women of the world want to go on pilgrimages? Long explorations? We don’t know; they...
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    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    I am significantly older than the writer… and yep, I’ve been through all that (and more — book-sellers barging into my campus office to flog their wares and asking when the professor would arrive — that was my first *15* years in the seat)… went to undergrad at a time when it was still thought...
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    What mountains are near O Cebreiro ?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra_dos_Ancares Perhaps this link will help… as it provides an over-view of all the mountain ranges in Galicia, and if you look at the map, read the description of locations of the ranges, and plot for yourself where O’ Cebreiro is, then the “in between Ancares...
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    What mountains are near O Cebreiro ?

    It lies *between* the Courel and Os Ancares. Here’s more information: https://www.usc.gal/en/servizos/eccourel/Paisaxes.html?action=detail&image=28
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    "normal" daily routine

    I have found that on some routes, this is still a very good method... eat the large almuerza, move on... then the smaller cena later in the evening... or skip it if you remember to keep a small snack in your pocket for later in the evening and have had that generous and calorific mid-day meal...
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    "normal" daily routine

    True enough, but worth trying the Spanish late evening dining a socializing experience on rest days if you are in private accommodations, and also… it’s a terrible look for pilgrims to sit about moaning that the Spanish are not fetching supper for the hard working pilgrims to eat by 6pm. I...
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    "normal" daily routine

    While some places you arrive to will really be a one-mule-hitch town, I think it is nonetheless valuable to try to find out something about where you are. Chat with the bar-tender if they are not busy... go look at that little chapel, or at the village church... Go look at that plaque on the...
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    Bed bugs in Samos Convento do tras!

    I'm very allergic in general and react badly to bites. I have come to expect that on every trip I will be bitten (though I was very lucky starting out early in the season last year, and so escaped un-eaten). By the time almost 400,000 walkers have tromped all over the caminos, carting their...
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    Favourite Accommodation Splurge along the Camino

    I think that I was a little bit unlucky with my efforts to advance book *directly through them via email* because I happened to be landing in SdC on both occasions when there were large conferences being hosted. Last fall it was the Vatican conference on hospitality and care to the...
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    Favourite Accommodation Splurge along the Camino

    I was not questioning your credentials. I was curious about the timeline because ti does not match my recent Hospideria at the San Martin Pinario, nor with their pilgrim rooms. And the closest experience *I* have had recently in a monastery in Santiago with shared showers was at the Seminario...
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    Favourite Accommodation Splurge along the Camino

    Hmmm. When was this? My Pilgrim "cell" on the top floor has always had a tiny shower. Shared bathrooms at the Seminario manor, though (although even those have privacy etc). And my regular hotel room at the Pinario has always had a full ensuite bathroom and either a double bed or two twins...
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    Favourite Accommodation Splurge along the Camino

    I tried for a year. When we arrived in the fall of 2022 and the spring of 2023 we were told on both occasions that the pilgrim rooms cannot be booked in advance. We were very lucky on both occasions that a room had come available for us because someone else had canceled.
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    Favourite Accommodation Splurge along the Camino

    Oh... and I forgot about this at first, but the NH hotel near to St. Francis of Assisi Church in Santiago has an outstanding dining room/kitchen/hospitality, and very nice rooms.

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