karenfromcali
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Hy , give your fellow pilgrims earplugs and the problem is solved. Hi ,hi !!! I wish you a Buen Camino ,Peter.So I set out on my first day and hauled my bottom up the hill to Valcarlos. Felt I had done well and dragged in after 4 hours of walking. Introduced myself to my fellow albergue pilgrims then promptly passed out on my bunk. I thought I heard giggling in my sleep but figured I was dreaming. Until I woke up that is and discovered I had been snoring! YES SNORING! And I DONT snore!! It appears I have saved up a lifetime of unknown, surpressed inward desire to begin snoring. And set it free when I hit an albergues! Sigh. Tent anyone??
That was most generous. I take the view that albergues are for all pilgrims, and if you are intolerant of what is relatively natural and almost normal behaviour like snoring, it is up to you to resolve the issue by seeking out more private accommodation.I would like to take this opportunity to remind pilgrims that some of us who stay in private rooms at albergues or in one star hotels do so to protect the innocent from our snoring. Would I like to stay in open bay albergues? Yes. But I want to live through the night. So instead, I segregate myself away from everyone else. So the next time you see someone checking into a hotel along the Camino, don't think less of them because they are not a "real" pilgrim. It might be me saving you from a sleepless night.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind pilgrims that some of us who stay in private rooms at albergues or in one star hotels do so to protect the innocent from our snoring. Would I like to stay in open bay albergues? Yes. But I want to live through the night. So instead, I segregate myself away from everyone else. So the next time you see someone checking into a hotel along the Camino, don't think less of them because they are not a "real" pilgrim. It might be me saving you from a sleepless night.
One of our favorite fellow pilgrims was known to all of us as the "Snorker". A German pilgrim I walked with commented that his snoring shook the bead and that he was not just a snoring machine -- he was an entire snoring factory! Try changing your sleeping position if you can (side not back)... but really -- its human. Buen Camino. LizSo I set out on my first day and hauled my bottom up the hill to Valcarlos. Felt I had done well and dragged in after 4 hours of walking. Introduced myself to my fellow albergue pilgrims then promptly passed out on my bunk. I thought I heard giggling in my sleep but figured I was dreaming. Until I woke up that is and discovered I had been snoring! YES SNORING! And I DONT snore!! It appears I have saved up a lifetime of unknown, surpressed inward desire to begin snoring. And set it free when I hit an albergues! Sigh. Tent anyone??
Don't worry too much about it.
I know one woman who left the Camino because someone teased her about her snoring.
Hand them some earplugs, and keep going.
They'll get over it or they'll hire a private room.
I can't sleep if someone is snoring BUT like Falcon says, I've awakened myself ... SNORING!
So now I just get a private room when I can.
Bit cold for a tent, isn't it? Don't worry too much - they will still love and forgive you! Buen Camino Roncadora ;-) SY
PS Just buy a dozen of ear plus and hand them out as gifts ...
Seriously, you could even wrap them up nicely and put a flower picked on the way, through the ribbon! That will soften people's hearts! SY
Have you ever thought that taking a private room at the pension that's too close to the albergue might "not work"?I would like to take this opportunity to remind pilgrims that some of us who stay in private rooms at albergues or in one star hotels do so to protect the innocent from our snoring. Would I like to stay in open bay albergues? Yes. But I want to live through the night. So instead, I segregate myself away from everyone else. So the next time you see someone checking into a hotel along the Camino, don't think less of them because they are not a "real" pilgrim. It might be me saving you from a sleepless night.
On my first Camino (2009) I stayed in private albergue in Uterga with my mother. In the morning everybody were smiling at me and nodding in kind of understanding... I've had no idea what was that all about. I thought it was about my snoring, but later that day my mom told me that now everybody knows my girlfriends name - Monika..., auchI talked in my sleep one night while staying in an albergue last summer while walking the Camino. It was loud enough that I woke myself up. A municipal albergue with about 30 other peregrinos in the room. No idea what I said in my sleep, but the next morning the pilgrim who was in the bunk below me said I was talking for some time. Yikes....
That's the funniest definition of snoring I've heard so far... he was not just a snoring machine -- he was an entire snoring factory! ...
This one is even betterI don't snork, I'm always dreaming I'm a motorcycle ;-)
Quite. And sometimes even separate rooms are no remedy:There is snoring and then there is snoring. I suspect that most people snore for a while, in certain positions, occasionally. There are those however who through sheer volume challenge even the best earplugs. If you know that you are one of the elite; consideration would dictate that if there is an easy way to spare your fellow pilgrims (such as a separate room) then it is the kind thing to do.
you attended a perfect 'boot camp' - and seem supremely 'equipped' for the camino version of 'deer camp'In Wisconsin, we have something known as deer camp. just basically 10 guys in a small cabin. A lot of wood gets cut at night. Every once in awhile with the recipe of exhaustion and a little alcohol I might even join them.
I am holding judgement on the Camino to see which one is more challenging. hopefully I am already well conditioned to it.
In Wisconsin, we have something known as deer camp. just basically 10 guys in a small cabin. A lot of wood gets cut at night. Every once in awhile with the recipe of exhaustion and a little alcohol I might even join them.
I am holding judgement on the Camino to see which one is more challenging. hopefully I am already well conditioned to it.
A cacophony of snoring shouldn't bother other Peregrinos if they're doing their camino correctly. They should be so exhausted by the time they hit their bunks that a thunderstorm shouldn't wake them.
. . . . he was not just a snoring machine -- he was an entire snoring factory! Try changing your sleeping position if you can (side not back)... but really -- its human. Buen Camino. Liz
I was actually camping near railroad tracks once when I was younger. Next day, everyone was complaining about the train that went through that night and woke them up. I said "What train?"
And that was you? "Came" through the house...I grew up next to the railroad tracks and when we had people visit, they would ask: "Did you hear that train last night?" And I would ask "What train?" And they would reply, "The one that came through the house!"
Quite. And sometimes even separate rooms are no remedy:[/QUOTE
Very true, in Casa Garcia, in Gonzar, one of my fellow walking companions opted for a private room to get a better night sleep: turns out he got the amplied snoring noise from the rest of us a floor below ;0)
My 5 dogs snore. I love it. I find it very soothing. It's like a meditation mantra.I'm used to it. You should hear my dog.
... Next Tim, I'm tying my feet together.
I understand dark chocolate is another good source of magnesium. I am at least prepared to believe that even if it's not true, it always seems to make me feel much better!A less brutal and more helpful solution might be to eat more bananas, helps with the leg crampsBuen Camino! SY
I would like to take this opportunity to remind pilgrims that some of us who stay in private rooms at albergues or in one star hotels do so to protect the innocent from our snoring. I would love to stay in albergues like the rest of you but I want to live through the night. So instead, I segregate myself away from everyone else. So the next time you see someone checking into a hotel along the Camino, don't think less of them because they are not a "real" pilgrim. It might be me saving you from a sleepless night.
Hola, Georgina,This was very funny and you people make me laugh I do hope all the people on the Camino this summer have a sense of humor like all of you; because when I talk no one hears me and I am always told to speak up: but my Youngest son tells me when I fall asleep, that my snoring shakes the house, that it is so loud he said they can't get to sleep even though their bed room is at the far end of the house, a way from where I am. They are amazed that I don't wake up the kids. Well I was offended and didn't believe them so I typed my self when I fell asleep and well... yup I snore I was a bit worried about falling asleep in the hostel for fear of finding myself waking up out side.
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