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I am 69. It took me about a week on arriving home to recover after walking the CF. I was aching all over. It just went away. I did have a cold for two weeks and gastro in France before getting on the plane.
Gorgeous walk today to Villafranca! There were a few puffy clouds all day and the mountains were quite visible almost the entire day ( of course I had to walk backwards to see them). I love the stretch just after Perios that goes thru the...
As some who has asthma I have to point out, that not everyone who is heavily coughing is necessarily sick in a way to make you sick too. I had a very unpleasant discussion with one guy who said very nastily i was sick, and i shouldnt use...
I just came back from a stint as hospitalera in Ponferrada. I was working in a donativo. Over 2 weeks we had 2 people who were clearly sick and we isolated them in the smallest room we had ( 4 bunk room) part of the protocol there was to...
I had similar experiences, but the reality is that there is very little you can do about it. You can hope the person coughing would be considerate, but you can't really make them. To them it might not be anything out of the ordinary, whilst to us...
I know how you are feeling. I caught a cold for two weeks from a pilgrim snotting, sneezing and blowing in the top bunk next to me. It was a donativo albergue with the beds close together and I was in a bottom bunk next to him. I booked...
I don’t like the phrase the Camino provides - sounds akin to ‘magic happens’ stickers on car windscreens! Or ‘unicorns are real!’.
However, the original post seems like quite an over reaction to a non-issue - particularly given the examples the...
I haven’t read all the comments yet, but thought I would get my two cents worth in as this is very relevant to me right now. 😄
I find that I am walking Camino Podiensis (4th Camino) starting 25th of May. My experience is that my Caminos choose me...
Sorry...the poster's philosophy hits me as edged, over-focused and quite pessimistic...attributes that are most prevalent in the world since the beginning of the Pandemic. So, I provide my response as observations and not opinion.
Yes, I am a...
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