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I can ditto above poster.Hi everyone! I’m currently on the camino and soon will be hitting the meseta. What worries me is that on stage 17 between Carrión - Terradillos there is a 17.2km stretch without any bars or bathroom. (mobile cafe only operates in the summer)
During the camino so far (the last two weeks) many crop fields were bald because the harvesting was done. I heard that you can go to bathroom behind the wheat and barley crops in the meseta, but now seeing all the bald grain fields while walking thru i am very very worried the bathroom problem on stage 17. Would really apprecite your advice if you’ve done CF this time of the year. Thanks!
I have to share this... Walked with an 11 yr old boy who needed to ‘spend a penny’ - i think on that stretch...You do what you gotta do! And laugh about it.
You could try one of these?? Oh - you are already on Camino ... but no one minds you know, and all you really need to do is to ask two pilgrims to stand in front of you (facing the other way)
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That was the petrol (gas) station that I stopped at. Last year I walked this stretch in the afternoon, since I had started in Población de los Campos that day - about 15.5 km before Carrión de los Condes. I only saw about 4 other pilgrims between Carrión and Calzadilla de la Cueva. This was in July.When leaving Carrion de los Condes you pass Monasterio San Zoilo (worth a visit) and a petrol station
I walked the exact same stretch from Población de los Campos, that walk was HOT!That was the petrol (gas) station that I stopped at. Last year I walked this stretch in the afternoon, since I had started in Población de los Campos that day - about 15.5 km before Carrión de los Condes. I only saw about 4 other pilgrims between Carrión and Calzadilla de la Cueva. This was in July.
Like many of you, I have watched that movie, and the scene - first it's her turn and then the three guys' - was funny. @oursonpolaire's story is even more hilarious. But seriously, Christ lag in Todesbanden? I dont' think I would have been able to perform with such a musical accompaniment as background ... but perhaps with Es klappert die Mühle am rauschenden Bach.
I think the reality is more prosaic: If there are male companions, you tell them to keep walking and to not turn around. If there are female companions, you ask one of them to stay behind at a strategic point and to yell "Someone's coming" when someone is coming.
Like many of you, I have watched that movie, and the scene - first it's her turn and then the three guys' - was funny. @oursonpolaire's story is even more hilarious. But seriously, Christ lag in Todesbanden? I dont' think I would have been able to perform with such a musical accompaniment as background ... but perhaps with Es klappert die Mühle am rauschenden Bach.
I think the reality is more prosaic: If there are male companions, you tell them to keep walking and to not turn around. If there are female companions, you ask one of them to stay behind at a strategic point and to yell "Someone's coming" when someone is coming.
I'm not doubting your story and you told it wellI remembered it clearly and identified it from a more current youtube. They were very good. I met them a few days later and they were from the music school at a Saxon university, the name of which I have since forgotten.
In Welsh "bach" means small but it can also be used as a term of endearment when talking to a friend. So in Dylan Thomas's marvellous "Under Milk Wood" a drunk organist addresses an imaginary Johann Sebastian as "Bach bach!"It happens to be the same word as the family name of J.S. Bach but that's a coincidence and a different story.
Hi everyone! I’m currently on the camino and soon will be hitting the meseta. What worries me is that on stage 17 between Carrión - Terradillos there is a 17.2km stretch without any bars or bathroom. (mobile cafe only operates in the summer)
During the camino so far (the last two weeks) many crop fields were bald because the harvesting was done. I heard that you can go to bathroom behind the wheat and barley crops in the meseta, but now seeing all the bald grain fields while walking thru i am very very worried the bathroom problem on stage 17. Would really apprecite your advice if you’ve done CF this time of the year. Thanks!
Well now that you mention it .....Or, women could just stop being so ridiculously precious - we all pee, male, female, all mammals, we all have the same situation - .. next thing will be complaints about a pea under the mattress in refugio bunks!
Fancy meeting someone from Cornwall, Ontario here. Seriously, in the mid-70s I used to spend time there on consulting projects for the firm I worked for in Toronto.I listened to many Paul Robeson records when I was young (not mainstream teenage musical inclinations in Cornwall, Ontario, in 1970, but...) and recognized the tune. I remembered it clearly and identified it from a more current youtube. They were very good. I met them a few days later and they were from the music school at a Saxon university, the name of which I have since forgotten.
There's not a lot of cover as you climb the Sierra del Perdon and it's always busy. I'd met an Englishman in Pamplona who, having reached the top, ways dying for a pee. The descent was a lot more bushy with loose stone in those days (2001) and he said that behind every bush was a piece of dirty tissue paper.I have an overactive bladder. I would find a bush or something to squat behind. Once there were a few people around. So, I walked quickly ahead and slipped a couple of feet off the Way to relieve myself. As I was adjusting my clothes, I was met with a couple of grins. I also wore a macabi skirt.
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