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  1. WGroleau

    DO NOT burn your clothes at Finisterre

    If I were going east from Santiago in a motor vehicle, I would be happy to put some poles into the corners of my load. The extra weight will cost me less than a café con leche in fuel. If my profit isn't higher than that, I'm in the wrong business!
  2. WGroleau

    I was one of the noisy bag rustlers in the am

    I understand. My mother used to say, "Good thing your head is bolted on or you'd lose that!" I have to go back to check several times out of fear of losing something, and no matter how quiet one tries to be, "it's always something." Someone moves a chair into the pathway and piles noisy...
  3. WGroleau

    I was one of the noisy bag rustlers in the am

    Well, obviously neither of us knows whether or not there's remorse. But I think it highly unlikely that OP was bragging.
  4. WGroleau

    I was one of the noisy bag rustlers in the am

    She did not say she repeated it. She said she was nervous that she might have left something. Before I congratulate the unselfish acts you've told us about, let me ask: If you thought you had forgotten something, and didn't know how to check quietly would you hit the road and try to forget...
  5. WGroleau

    I was one of the noisy bag rustlers in the am

    As often as I have guessed wrong at an intersection with no yellow arrow, I cannot imagine leaving before sunrise!
  6. WGroleau

    I was one of the noisy bag rustlers in the am

    In Burgos, one might ask "when the lights went off." Dozens of pilgrims hustling to get out by the posted deadline of eight A.M. At 07:55. the hospitalero turned off the lights! I think I said out loud, "Do you think we'll find our shoes faster in the dark?" :-)
  7. WGroleau

    Consigna in Cee?

    Well, three of them are not open now, and I'm not waiting till noon to get out of here. If this Hotel won't hold them, I'll ask at the tourist info on the beach. If they can't tell me, I guess I'll tow the thing around the loop.
  8. WGroleau

    Consigna in Cee?

    Well, it's absolutely not 210 meters from the Camino where Open Street Map (OSM) says! And Booking.com agrees with OSM. Since they didn't answer any messages, they lose. And since it was ten PM, I also lose.
  9. WGroleau

    Consigna in Cee?

    If I were staying in an albergue now, I'd try for that. But I am staying in a hotel. Reserved a spot in "O Bordon" but when I got to where the map said it was, there was nothing there that appeared to be an albergue, and they did not respond to any messages. So at eleven PM, I checked in to...
  10. WGroleau

    Width of paths west of Santiago

    Well, the last two days have been sunny, and the view from the "mirador do Ézaro" is quite impressive. The "wounds" from dragging bike uphill are cured by a night's sleep.
  11. WGroleau

    Width of paths west of Santiago

    Took my daily thyroid medicine in Hospital that morning. Next morning in Cee, I couldn't find the medicine. Emptied all the bags and pouches; dug around for a half hour; not here. Went back to Hospital: not there either. Both ends claim they cleaned thoroughly and found no pill bottles. I...
  12. WGroleau

    Consigna in Cee?

    I am in Cee now (Friday night), and have to return here Monday to buy something that had to be ordered. Thinking I'll spend the weekend on a loop, Cee → Fisterra → Muxia → Cee. Anyone aware of an inexpensive place in Cee to leave a large bag for three days and two nights? Perhaps an albergue...
  13. WGroleau

    Width of paths west of Santiago

    They didn't steal the concrete; they just pried out the metal plates that had the distance down to the meter. I measured two other ways, and I am pretty sure they are quite accurate.
  14. WGroleau

    Flat tire on bicycle

    Good advice, but doesn't help to fix the flat I have now. I've never timed my repairs, but on a regular bike, I didn't need tools. The Brompton, however, has a rather complicated rear end which one must be very careful not to lose tiny parts when disassembling on the road. And then, my hands...
  15. WGroleau

    Width of paths west of Santiago

    No pilgrims appeared to have any problem with me, and several bikers passed while I was walking the flat tire. Last year, maybe four hundred kilometers, the only "problem" I had with pilgrims is scaring the pants off of them after I call out in two languages that a bicycle is about to pass on...
  16. WGroleau

    Width of paths west of Santiago

    Got to Hospital, info office confirmed Cee has the nearest bike shop. Actually the second nearest, but the other is well off the Camino and almost in Cee. Decided to stay in Hospital rather than get to Cee after dark. Now in Cee, and the three days of wet are finally over. Tomorrow...
  17. WGroleau

    Flat tire on bicycle

    Anyone know of a bicycle shop or. Ferretería close to Olveiros? Or any other option for fixing a flat on a sixteen-inch bike tube? (Unfortunately, I probably won't see the answer until I find another wifi location!)
  18. WGroleau

    Width of paths west of Santiago

    Second day, to Ponte Olveira, where the albergue offered wifi—if someone offered them a euro to plug in the router for a half-hour. Got a flat tire on the way, so I changed the trailer wheels to put less weight on it and walked the last more than ¿five? kilometers. Here they say the nearest...
  19. WGroleau

    Width of paths west of Santiago

    Santiago to Negreira: around KM 5, the "bridge" is a long piece of granite about fifteen CM wide, so everything had to be carried over that. A couple of spots where the trailer wheels brushed the thorny vines, but otherwise (so far) more than wide enough. Turns out that in the steeper parts...
  20. WGroleau

    Width of paths west of Santiago

    No doubt easier, but I want the path unless really impossible.

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