- Time of past OR future Camino
- Frances - 2009
Portuguese Interior (2014)
Hadrian's Wall (2017)
Porto to SdC ( Seaside) 2019
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I love intimidating the dogs because they turn out to be such wimps, you just give them the "evil eye" and the two figure gesture about I'm watching you like you are watching me and they turn tail and run off with tails between their legs.
I love intimidating the dogs because they turn out to be such wimps, you just give them the "evil eye" and the two figure gesture about I'm watching you like you are watching me and they turn tail and run off with tails between their legs.
I've heard the various situations concerning bed bugs. As I've noted before (y'all were helpful about communications), I'm going to do Camino Portuguese in September 2014. My latest "fixation" is about bugs - well, insects. Traveling in the late summer, early fall should bring me what kind of unwelcome intrusion by the flying, creeping, crawling critters? Flies? Mosquitoes? Gnats? And, of course, help me out with the best way to combat the little "buggers."
Bon Caminho!
I'll be walking the Portuguese in May. I take my Nook so I can keep in touch with friends and family. If you want I can provide live insect updates from along my routeThank you, all.... that's y'all in southern.... I'm a transplant (from Pennsylvania) but have lived here longer than any one other place! I really wasn't overly concerned about the bedbugs. I heard they are, at least, manageable. I was wondering about mosquitoes, gnats, and other bothersome types of buggers. One more thing to cross off my "worry about" list.
FORE!!!!
Thank you, Anniesantiago. I will likely have a bit of "de-bugging" lotion of sorts! It is good that one need not worry about how "bad" one smells! I'll, hopefully, shower at the end of the day and lather up again for the next go...I was eaten alive by mosquitos on the Portuguese route.
I can't use mosquito spray so if I walk this route again, I'll buy one of those bugscreen tents to go over my bed at night!
bajaracer.... I didn't have a problem on the Frances. I don't even remember much of a fly problem (May / June). Of course, I am used to this Kentucky climate!At least in Spain I never experienced any ticks/chiggers/gnats/mosquitos while on the Camino, (and I was stationed at Ft. Campbell in the late 80's) There were lots of flies on the Camino when I got to Galicia, just not as pestering as what I experienced at Ft. Campbell and other places in the South.
bajaracer.... I didn't have a problem on the Frances. I don't even remember much of a fly problem (May / June). Of course, I am used to this Kentucky climate!Hope you enjoyed Campbell. I was here the first time in the early 80s and came back!
OK can you tell me what I said wrong. Over here its a warning that a golf ball is headed right at you. Don't want to cause a international scandal you know.Normaly I should call "FORE " but on this occassion there was an expression that I donot like to repeat in this decent thread ! Ha ha ! ;-)
You do not do anything wrong. It's correct . When we shoot into the wrong direction (with our handicap sometimes ;-) we do the same but I did not shout that in particular to the little terror who tried to attack us on a happy sunday walking between Lisbon and Porto. I will call Fore !! Next time when a little or big devil approaches us and let you know afterwards if it helped !OK can you tell me what I said wrong. Over here its a warning that a golf ball is headed right at you. Don't want to cause a international scandal you know.
We got mosquito attacks during our walking at daytime specially when animals like horses ,cows etc were close by.I was eaten alive by mosquitos on the Portuguese route.
I can't use mosquito spray so if I walk this route again, I'll buy one of those bugscreen tents to go over my bed at night!
You do not do anything wrong. It's correct . When we shoot into the wrong direction (with our handicap sometimes ;-) we do the same but I did not shout that in particular to the little terror who tried to attack us on a happy sunday walking between Lisbon and Porto. I will call Fore !! Next time when a little or big devil approaches us and let you know afterwards if it helped !
I was eaten alive by mosquitos on the Portuguese route.
I can't use mosquito spray so if I walk this route again, I'll buy one of those bugscreen tents to go over my bed at night!
I've heard the various situations concerning bed bugs. As I've noted before (y'all were helpful about communications), I'm going to do Camino Portuguese in September 2014. My latest "fixation" is about bugs - well, insects. Traveling in the late summer, early fall should bring me what kind of unwelcome intrusion by the flying, creeping, crawling critters? Flies? Mosquitoes? Gnats? And, of course, help me out with the best way to combat the little "buggers."
Bon Caminho!
Thanks, Julie. I'll be traveling about the same time next year and appreciate the "heads up". I have come to the conclusion that bed bugs are not as prevalent as some think... they're also not absent!We just finished from Porto to SdC 2 weeks ago ( late sept 2013) and the only place we had bug problems was at the municipal albergue in Portela.
I was covered with bites from the bed, and I used a sleep sack that had permithrin treatment.
So there are bugs!
Julie
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