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      Pelegrin replied to the thread Logrono wins Spanish lottery.
      The tradition includes exchanging lottery with family, extended famlly and friends, usually ten euros. A person selected to exchange lottery means that is " important" to you.
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      Pelegrin reacted to peregrina2000's post in the thread Logrono wins Spanish lottery with Like Like.
      I generally agree with what you say about lotteries, @henrythedog, but I think that in this case the cost is spread much more evenly across all strata of society. Not only poor and stupid people play the Christmas lottery. It is a huge tradition...
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      Pelegrin reacted to ivar's post in the thread Logrono wins Spanish lottery with Like Like.
      No luck for us today. This lottery is part of the Christmas traditions in Spain.
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      Pelegrin reacted to SabsP's post in the thread Logrono wins Spanish lottery with Like Like.
      The live show is always great entertainment though this student made an error ( due to high stress surely). https://www.rtve.es/rtve/20241222/loteria-navidad-2024-nina-canta-falso-gordo-genera-confusion/16383034.shtml The singing children of...
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      Pelegrin reacted to Bradypus's post in the thread Old Camino Walkers with Like Like.
      The shifting demographics of those walking Caminos over the years are quite remarkable. In the early days of the Camino revival it was very much a younger person's activity. There are some detailed statistics from Roncesvalles from 1987. Those...
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      Pelegrin reacted to sillydoll's post in the thread Old Camino Walkers with Like Like.
      The stats from the Pilgrim Office for 2023 shows the majority of pilgrims are between 46 and 65
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      Pelegrin reacted to Bradypus's post in the thread 450,000 Pilgrims with Like Like.
      450,000? You are way out of date. The running total so far this year is very nearly half a million! About half of those have walked the Camino Frances. But most of those only on the section after Sarria.
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      Pelegrin replied to the thread Security bars on windows.
      I visited recently the very north of Portugal ( concelho de Melgaço) and bars situation in the rural were more or less the same than in rural Galicia ( very few). One more thing in common with Galicia.
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      Pelegrin replied to the thread Security bars on windows.
      I am from rural Galicia (concello de Aranga Coruña). Mine and concellos around like Irixoa, Monfero, Guitiriz don' t have bars except a few ones. Don' t forget dogs.
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      Pelegrin replied to the thread Security bars on windows.
      Fifty years ago there were stil many villages in Galicia without a road so no possibility of criminals accessing by car. People left houses open when they went out to work in their fields. And no problems with " defense of honor" like in...
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