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  1. Bogong

    How to explore Basque Coast (Bayonne, Anglet, Biarritz, Saint Jean de Luz, Hendaye stretch) before Irun?

    San Sebastian is a boutique city, claimed to have the finest city beach in Europe. Frankly, to me it makes Paris, wonderful though it is, look like a dump. I’d go back there tomorrow if I could. Try to spend a day or two there. De Colores Bogong
  2. Bogong

    Having something mailed to Santiago

    Very good advice. Also check with your bank re extending the close date on your existing card. And even if they agree don’t take a chance on them actually doing it. Also, here at least there are other organisations, such as Post Offices which issue debit cards for travel purposes. But in any...
  3. Bogong

    Compostela: Electric Bikes Excluded?

    I can’t see anything worse in this than having backpacks transported between stages. Back even in 2014, there eere quite significant numbers doing the Camino by bus and duly fronting up for their Compostelas. I saw this service advertised on a notice board in Granada ( I didn’tvreally look...
  4. Bogong

    Beds in First Stage Albergues - Current Situation, late May 2024

    Sorry people. I can’t understand this obsession about beds. This has been a pilgrimage now for around 1,200 years and I’m sure that even with very heavy traffic even in the early times there wasn’t an issue. I understand that early pilgrims may even have slept and cooked in the Cathedral. As one...
  5. Bogong

    Poncho in SJPDP?

    Interesting. I walked winter 2014 and the weather from St J P de p was vile. Two pilgrims that first day had their ponchos completely shredded by Roncrsvalles. De Colores. Bogong
  6. Bogong

    What do you wish you had worried less about?

    Most of the scary stuff I’d been reading on this site. Accommodation issues, blisters, bedbugs, distances, route issues, shoes, packweights, snoring and other albergue noises at night, medical facilities, went on and on. Left me fearful of a challenging ordeal which could threaten my very...
  7. Bogong

    New Camino route identified

    If he’d tried a few years earlier he could have come here for nothing! De Colores Bogong
  8. Bogong

    Holy Week Experience

    On a tip -off from a friend i finished my Camino before Semana Santa, met up with my wife and sister-in -law and afterwitnessing a marvellous procession on Palm Sunday in Madrid right near our hotel spent the rest of the week in Toledo, the seat of the Catholic Church in Spain.Processions every...
  9. Bogong

    Crazy things people do in the last 100 km

    Told to me by a German pilgrim I met somewhere after Sarria in 2014. You could still see the terror in his eyes at the memory. He was my age, about 70. He had years earlier walked from Sarria in August, the Spanish holiday period. It was wall to wall people all seemingly having a very good time...
  10. Bogong

    Asics running shoe durability

    What I’m going to say might upset some prople and cause some disagreement. For 58 years or so I’ve been a jogger including daily runs of up to 15 miles and marathon training. I’ve tried virtually every brand of funner except now there seem to be more brands than there are people in the London...
  11. Bogong

    Chinese shops???

    I’ve heard of a number of fires triggered by phones on charge but it has always been due to the lithium batteries in the phones overcharging and overheating, never the cords or chargers. A few months back, people in a house a few blocks away went on their early morning walk leaving a mobile...
  12. Bogong

    Respectful donativo amounts in 2024

    When I walked in winter there were few pilgrims but several deliberately sought out the donativotos to avoit paying anything. I would always whack in a bit more than I would have been paying at a private albergue. De colores Bogong
  13. Bogong

    LIVE from the Camino Dog attack

    I read this, and various of the responses, with alarm. First thing, report it to the authorities. Second, and far more important, check with the nearest Medical Centre. I’m not sure what the ststus of rabies is in Spain now, but it’s not worth taking a chance. They would advise you. Have you...
  14. Bogong

    Meseta

    Left Burgos at midday( had to buy a new camera and a few other essentials), short day to Hornillos de Camino, next day to Itero de la Vega, next day to Carrion de los Condes, next day to Moratinos, next day El Burgo Ranero, next day got to Leon. De Colores Bogong
  15. Bogong

    Celebrating my old age

    C’mon you blokes what’s going on? It’s not an age, it’s just a number. I did the Frances in my 70th year in late winter from St J p de P. The weather was vile most of the way Took me 26 days and I then toddled off to Muxia. And I’d knocked my body around quite a lot in the years before then. I’d...
  16. Bogong

    Drinking water @hotels

    A very cogent comment. A few years back here ( Australia, and I think it was Sydney), an accredited laboratory tested bottled waters on sale which advertised their purity etc. Most had trace substances of things they claimed freedom from which were above levels set for tap water. The most...
  17. Bogong

    Any pilgrims in their 80s?

    It’s just a number! De Colores Bogong
  18. Bogong

    Warning about Cruz de Fierro Albergue in Foncebadon

    I gather this is the fifth time you walked the Camino. I would have expected you to know a bit more Spanish than you had. After all, it’s their country and it deserves respect. Bogong
  19. Bogong

    Five Extra Days

    Anuwhere is fabulous. But locals in Spain told me the country has two magical cities, Santiago de Compostela and Toledo. Toledo was an earlier capital and is the seat of the Roman Catholic chyrch in Spain. It has a particularly grim civil war history. It was captured by rebel Moor forces...
  20. Bogong

    Hands up! Where are forum members from?

    I’m not so sure as to how many realise that forum members represent only a very tiny fraction of people walking the Camino. De Colores Bogong

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