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For geraldcarey my most frustrating moment

scruffy1

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Holy Year from Pamplona 2010, SJPP 2011, Lisbon 2012, Le Puy 2013, Vezelay (partial watch this space!) 2014; 2015 Toulouse-Puenta la Reina (Arles)
Loved your story, everyone has a different story, perhaps early morning, brushing you teeth and a woman comes out of the shower with nothing on but a towel, wrapped around her head! Buenos Dios! in this case Guten Morgen! and move on. My most frustrating moment? Walked 34k instead of the planned 23, ate dinner, showered and off to bed. Next morning, my shirt smelled, well, funky, no clean socks so those from the day before yesterday will do, ah! clean underwear!!!. About 12k down the Camino the elastic band in my skivies says, "You are crazy, I'm out of here!". You can walk with uncooperative unmentionables down around your knees, you can seek out a tree and wear something only slightly - 14km - used, or you can remove them and walk bare-bute until evening. Ah, never boring on the Camino!
 
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
Hi scruffy1, talking about undies, and the problems they create for men, I had been seriously considering going without next Camino. Going Commando, being a hard man.
Then I read TPloomis's account of how his zipper got stuck.
Oh!
I've suddenly gone off that commando idea.

Regds
Gerard
 
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My father always recommended "underpants with good strong elastic" after being lost in the mountains for ten days with defective ones. It was more memorable than eating lichen and sleeping rough.
 
Lycra underwear, with no stitches; just perfect. Only thing is, they do not last forever, you do have to renew your fleet every 1000 miles or so
 
€2,-/day will present your project to thousands of visitors each day. All interested in the Camino de Santiago.
Friend Amancio - if you would look over at my picture to the left <--- you will notice jeans (cotton) Carhartt t-shirt (cotton), unseen skivvies (cotton), organic fiber socks, and leather Australian hat - not a stich of Lycra, no acrylics, no polyesters, no nylon, no Gore-Tex. I recognize the so called benefits which such materials grant but I get the hives should any of them even touch me. Well, not hives, but for me they all feel nasty and tend to develop weird smells that don't really come out even after washing. Cotton will also biodegrade in the next 100 years of so, I try not to leave anything behind after we have all walked down that path of the dinosaurs pointed out for us.
 
Glad you guys have SOME problems :)

For consideration for you girls’ packing lists!!

from “A Brief History of Ladies Underwear”
After the fall of Rome women did not usually wear knickers until the 19th century.

from “A Timeline of Underwear”
1800Women begin to wear knickers which were usually open between the legs. At first they are called drawers because they are drawn on.
1860sSome women begin to wear coloured drawers.
1880sIn Britain drawers for women are now called knickers and men's underwear is called pants.
1900Some women are so poor they have to make their knickers from sacks.

So if you were to copy the packing lists of pre-1800 female pilgrims you could cut down on the weight of your backpack:)
 
Hi scruffy1, talking about undies, and the problems they create for men, I had been seriously considering going without next Camino. Going Commando, being a hard man.
Then I read TPloomis's account of how his zipper got stuck.
Oh!
I've suddenly gone off that commando idea.

Regds
Gerard
I think Commando works best for men if one is wearing a kilt.
 
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