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  1. dougfitz

    Camino by Coach

    The Pilgrim Office website offers an English translation of the current text here: https://oficinadelperegrino.com/en/pilgrimage/the-compostela/. ps. AI - very artificial, not always intelligent - should be VANAI edit: David, my 2010 Compostela is similar to the one you have shown. By 2016...
  2. dougfitz

    Camino by Coach

    Of course, selectively quoting the text and not including this: puts rather a different slant on any analysis about the role of walking or riding as one part of the criteria for awarding the Compostela. Yes, intent is important, but so is the physical endeavour of walking or riding.
  3. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    I'm not sure why you are finding this a problem. As others have pointed out, it is the same rhetorical logic that you have used yourself, so I wasn't expecting that you would find the proposition all that difficult to accept ;)
  4. dougfitz

    Help getting lodging past Sarria

    When I first walked, I was walking solo at the point that I reached Sarria, and I did this. When I walked from Sarria a few years later with my wife, we took a few more days, and I had a much more pleasant experience, despite the so-called crowding. I get the impression that @falconbrother is...
  5. dougfitz

    Coffee

    My taste buds are not that well honed that I would reject a Starbucks or any other chain coffee when that is all there is to be had. But it's always nice to be home and be able to get to places where I do like the coffee they serve.
  6. dougfitz

    Unsolicited Camino Prep Ideas

    What a thoughtful, well balanced contribution. Thank you.
  7. dougfitz

    Travel Insurance

    droll!! It's alway amusing to see what delusions our eastern neighbours suffer from!
  8. dougfitz

    Travel Insurance

    I find it just as important to check the conditions and exclusions on insurance provided by credit card companies as any other travel insurance product. Some don't offer the option of having some of my medical conditions covered, others do so at extra cost where they do have the flexibility. My...
  9. dougfitz

    Help getting lodging past Sarria

    I would be checking Gronze or one of the many Camino apps for albergues and other accommodation providers, and contacting them directly by text or phone. I have heard different stories about what percentage of their beds they offer on sites like Booking.com, but clearly many hold some beds back...
  10. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    The only Santiago with a sea port that I can recall is Santiago de Cuba. It is the only one of the five major Santiago cities located on the coast. There are many more locations named Santiago. I didn't check how many were also ports.
  11. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    What a wonderful example of the rhetorical fallacy formally known as an ad hominum, or perhaps better known in this case as 'shooting the messenger'. If properly implemented, it could become an instance of that management policy 'the sackings will continue until morale improves' as we eliminate...
  12. dougfitz

    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    Really? How do you pronounce it?
  13. dougfitz

    Best tape to prevent blisters

    My go to tapes are Fixomull (similar to Hypafix and Omnifix) and Micropore, a paper based surgical tape. I use Micropore between my toes as a preventative tape. I use Fixomull for a variety of purposes, including keeping other preventative dressings like a bunion cushion in place. I generally...
  14. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    I have never seen these, but I have never walked the alternative routes you keep thinking exist as a way to reach SDC. Those that I have seen on the formal routes don't, at least in my view, lend themselves to the interpretation you are suggesting. Rather, I consider @Kathar1na's explanation is...
  15. dougfitz

    ATM colour chart

    What is the ATM colour chart?
  16. dougfitz

    Too hot in August?

    You can find the normal climate data for Ourense here, and the extreme values for August here. Normally it would rain on an average of 3.3 days, so it's unlikely to rain the whole time, but @davejsy's prediction of high temperatures is more realistic. The August average maximum is 30.6 deg C...
  17. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    I understood that is where London Bridge is located. Clearly evidence that the Thames flowed there!
  18. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    On this basis, the Thames River once flowed through Lake Havasu City in Arizona! I suspect that many small towns and villages adjacent to the narrowly defined camino routes already get some benefit from the camino. I know that over the years, I have stayed in such places, and have spoken to...
  19. dougfitz

    A call for regulation or permit on the Francés

    Thank you for sharing this. The incident that led to this might well have been distressing, and out of character with our expectations of pilgrims on the Camino. Nonetheless, to me this looks more like confected outrage or a journalist looking for a story to fill some space than anything else. I...
  20. dougfitz

    Accommodation during El Camino de Santiago survey

    I got confused by the third question. You have included directions about what camino you wish us to report upon in question 2, not in some preamble. And then question three you suggest we can choose several responses about how many people we walked with. Surely if we are only going to report on...

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