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If you live outside the euro zone, I would open a Wise bank account and create a euro balance in it. Then you’ll have small fees to convert your currency into euros through Wise and then no currency conversion fees at ATMs on the camino.
That’s broadly still in the right ballpark re fees. For a UK debit card holder (me) most of the mains banks seem to be at €7 Euros. Sabadell seems to have increased though still one of the cheapest and when I last used DB they seem to be asking...
Well, I have added to my left behind items today since my post #3 early morning. I realized too late that I left my sunglasses😎 on my bed in Pueblo de Sanabria this morning...so that makes three items in 8+ years! Maybe this thread has jinxed...
Once you learn and adopt your personal methods for protecting the most valuable and difficult to replace items you carry, you can relax. Personal security precautions and situational awareness is something you should have learned by adulthood. I...
In Roncesvalles during the Semana Santa and Easter weekend it was more quiet than we expected.
But the last one and a half week it is full house daily; no beds available after 3.30 pm so make sturen you reservate a bed!
I think that’s because you and I have a different mindset. My Grandfather used to live in a village like that, every time he went away he used to have to find the key first! Clearly , @Molly Cassidy is fortunate to live in such an environment...
I must say I never took my valuables everywhere with me, and I wasn't by any means stupid or naive - just careful and very comfortable in all the places I stayed and the people around me and trusted my instincts.
I had gone expecting to have to...
I was robbed at the municipal albergue at night while I was sleeping last year. The
pouch was next to me. they only took away my money, they left all my documents and papers.
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