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I do the same, for the same reasons. Fresh air is important!
I agree completely.
Covering up is easy, cooling down not so.
If I'm too warm I start coughing. Which is irritating to all concerned.
Studies suggest that the best temperature...
I have been booking myself in several apartments where they use some app which allows me to scan my own passport in. Maybe they should look into something like that- it may make things go a little quicker? They don’t give me the key or the door...
On the topic of long queues to get into the Albergue at Roncesvalles: this is my observation: I was there a few years ago, cold and tired and with a reservation. The problem was that only ONE official was processing people. This accounted for the...
I started from SJPDP in August 1990 and picked up a credencial in Roncesvalles too. I spent the night there. At the pilgrim mass that night there were 7 priests and a server in the sanctuary and a congregation of 8 - with 3 pilgrims including...
there is ALWAYS a solution. Spain is a civilized country deeply invested in keeping pilgrims from freezing. If you're really stuck, use your AlertCops app to get help. You might not get the Instagram-ready suite you imagined, but you won't be...
Salad is salad. In my youth it was a bundle of butterhead lettuce, a boiled egg sliced, a few slices of tomato, and some sliced ham. And vinegar. Maybe a few pickled onions. And salad cream. You tell me, what is it nowadays? There was no space...
Here’s what I can tell you. I am on the Camino now. All the beds were full in SJPP. All the beds were full in Borda and or Orisson. All the beds were full and Roncesvalles . All the beds were full in Zubiri. I’ve seen a lot of crying pilgrims...
GI infections are usually population specific not geographic. That is someone in your cohort has shared their affliction and others are also. High standards of personal hygiene is the only resolution
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