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If you're signing up to sleep in a room with 5-20 other people for 30+ days, bank on snoring happening. It's your job to figure out if you can deal with this. If you cannot deal, and if earplugs don't work for you (some folks have inner ear...
Really?
I'll say it again in case you missed it.
No, you can't control the snoring.
That's true, and a given.
But:
If you know you snore loudly, and
if you can afford a single room,
Then it is a kindness to not impose your din on the rest...
This is not the first time the subject is brought up. Whether we all like it or not - there is a so-called geay area and there is no "proper" solution.
I snore and yes the first thing I've done is told folks (esp. those in bunks close to mine)...
I recently bought and successfully used noise-masking earphones on my all-too-brief walk on the Baztan (Bayonne to Pamplona) and the Frances (Pamplona to Logrono).
Comfortable, effective, and more cost effective than staying in hotel rooms. I...
I take the phrase, "The Camino provides" as to mean that our problems/situations somehow get "solved" on the Camino. Some recites it almost as a magical belief. I believe "the Camino provides" only because people associated with the Camino...
I took photos of my treating, too.
It was such a closed down village when we arrived and then had the offer of him opening just for us and be treated this sunshine burst of gastronomy....
And then we went tired to bed a had a good nights sleep.....
You have got to ask the pilgrims that meet the full up albergues as to which category their albergue was.
I have not met albergues that were full up, what can I say....
I am in two minds about these conceptions of "bed race".
If you take for a minute the premise that an albergue will not willingly let all the beds be in the prebookable status, and thus will have a percentage of beds available for the first...
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