Margaret Butterworth
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2013 (Pamplona to Burgos)
2014 (Burgos to Villafranca del Bierzo)
2015 (Villafranca to Santiago)
2016 (Le Puy to Conques; SJPP To Pamplona)
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Avoid the places with the extensive pizza-ad like menu boards for paella. It is frozen food, and you will be disappointed!!!Paella not up to snuff?
Ha ha. Thanks for the tip, but I was being facetious.Avoid the places with the extensive pizza-ad like menu boards for paella. It is frozen food, and you will be disappointed!!!
You can always talk yourself out of doing something if you think about it too much.
Yes indeed. Sorry, everyone, I was mixing up two best selling authors.Wasn't World Without End written by Ken Follett?
Everything you said reminded me of what I read in "A Sunburnt Country."Well, @Margaret Butterworth - let us compare with the hazards you encounter at home in Western Australia.....
Mega, mega rich inheritors of iron ore wealth with seemingly not a drop of charity in their veins.
Probably related to Great white sharks. At premier tourist beaches. Sea-snakes. Stonefish.
Some of world's most dangerous snakes (Taipan, King Brown, Death Adder, Western Brown).
No water for hundreds of kilometers.
Bluebottles. Redbacks spiders. Blue ringed octopus. Crocodiles. Stingers.
Deep fried icecream. Tinned fruit salad.
Bushfires that engulf and kill marathon runners during competition.
Cyclones.
Asbestos dust.
Huge road trains.
Kangaroos and emus that jump in front of cars, causing horrible crashes.
Not being able to get a meal after 8pm once you are out of inner city Perth. Or a good coffee. Anywhere. I swear.
Time you upped sticks to live in Spain Kanga?
It is a beautiful place though. Beautiful blue water....sunshine....fresh air......cool crisp white wine....the reddest earth......the biggest trees! Can't wait to subject myself to the dangers lurking in Western Australia once again!
Everything you said reminded me of what I read in "A Sunburnt Country."
You can always talk yourself out of doing something if you think about it too much.
Seeds are not available in WA. I ordered some from a chilli farm in Devon, UK, and imported them (maybe illegally?) via my sister in Yorkshire. Hope to come to meeting next weekend.Hi Margaret, where did you find seeds for the pimientos de padron?....I have 2 sweet pimentos plants waiting to go in!!
Are you coming along to the WA meetup next week? Would be great to talk Tapas & all things Camino with you...
Completly agree. We got an addiction to the Camino. Thinking, talking and dreaming Camino nowdays.The only hazard for me was getting a positive addiction to this incredible experience. I don't want to stop walking and can't wait to return next year.
Buen Camino !
Well, @Margaret Butterworth - let us compare with the hazards you encounter at home in Western Australia.....
Mega, mega rich inheritors of iron ore wealth with seemingly not a drop of charity in their veins.
Probably related to Great white sharks. At premier tourist beaches. Sea-snakes. Stonefish.
Some of world's most dangerous snakes (Taipan, King Brown, Death Adder, Western Brown).
No water for hundreds of kilometers.
Bluebottles. Redbacks spiders. Blue ringed octopus. Crocodiles. Stingers.
Deep fried icecream. Tinned fruit salad.
Bushfires that engulf and kill marathon runners during competition.
Cyclones.
Asbestos dust.
Huge road trains.
Kangaroos and emus that jump in front of cars, causing horrible crashes.
Not being able to get a meal after 8pm once you are out of inner city Perth. Or a good coffee. Anywhere. I swear.
Don't take the risk of importing unknown pathogens into WA @Margaret Butterworth and @bimblingalong - get the seeds pasturized or quarantined - contact your local branch of the Department of Agriculture. Please. Double please. Triple please
More on the Australia versus Spain debate:
Tapas bars are suddenly all the rage in Perth, but prices are high and portions small.
At a deli, I paid $11 for a tiny piece of queso manchego.
It is impossible to get pimientos de padron here. I have tried to grow them, but they don't like the soil!
All I can say to the people reading this thread who are not members of this forum, or who have not yet done a Camino Frances and are contemplating doing one, is that there are no real hazards while doing it, just inconveniences. Especially if you do it during the summer and avoid the snow.
I suppose that would depend on what one considers inconveniences.I thought the traditional wisdom was that there are greater inconveniences during the summer?
I suppose that would depend on what one considers inconveniences.
Yeah, it did get a bit more crowded after O'Cebreiro on both my Caminos, but never so bad I didn't have a place to sleep at night. Prior to O'Cebreiro the Camino was not crowded at all. One night I stayed in an albergue with just one other pilgrim.Hordes of people + HOT
For me if I do it again it would be in May. I suspect it would possibly be a bit wetter and a wee bit cooler that month, so that may force me not to wear shorts everyday and break out the fleece a few more times.> "it seemed the temperature never broke 32C (90F)"
There's the difference Mark - I consider anything over 70 hot ;-)
I went in early June previously, and although it was sometimes over 70, it was indeed a dry heat, so manageable for me.
Also, I'm certain that cycling vs. walking helps in that regard.
However, I am starting to think about September for next time, or even May - although, I suspect that the latter is far busier than the former? (composition, not calendar wise ;-)
For me if I do it again it would be in May. I suspect it would possibly be a bit wetter and a wee bit cooler that month, so that may force me not to wear shorts everyday and break out the fleece a few more times.
No way would I do it during the snowy months. After having to do cold weather training in the military I swore to myself never would I volunteer to go out in that kind of weather if I didn't have to. Same with the really rainy days. Mama didn't raise no fool.
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