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Looks good. You should buy it.
Really though , I'm not familiar with it.
I once saw a wide brim hat with vents/netting but at €50 i chose a €12.50 hat instead without vents. Unfortunately i ran hot when it was on my head and luckily the...
Only anecdotal, but I remember a number of reports of gasto-illnesses after Conde de Carrion a couple years ago. Local people wouldn't necessarly get sick. With certain bugs, the intestinal bacterial flora can learn to accomodate or defend...
Okay, this is wild. The day after I wrote that (above) I got a call from a casting director to be a background actor is a movie being filmed here, "The Lost Bus" with Matthew McConaughey. Not because I'm a super model, though... I will be a...
Yep, they are an ill-advised import to Spain. I grew up as a child with them in California, where they were also an ill-advised import. I still love the smell and the memories it brings back to me.
There's another thread elsewhere on the forums called "The Long and Winding Road" where people are posting their landscape photos of the long and winding road that we walk. I thought I'd start another photo thread of my own for a different kind...
Buen camino!
If you have energy to burn, take yourself up to Naranco. The two Visigothic churches up there are gorgeous. It's uphill, but not grotesquely so. Maybe an hour's walk?
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