The best process I have found is to ship things, via Correos, to Ivar at Santiago. Retrieve it from him on arrival. that way, everything crosses the ocean with you - as carried on or checked baggage.
This was a learning lesson for all of us who...
I was going to comment on that as well. It reminded me of the true story from the ACW lore that went roughly like this:
one day Jefferson Davis was riding his horse and he was stopped by a man who asked him
-Excuse me Sir but you would happen to...
Monday 28 October 2024
We had a fifth pilgrim roll in yesterday, a British bicigrino. He spent a fair amount of time chatting with our Israeli bicigrino, who wasn't staying the night (I draw the line before a third night) but I let him keep his...
If you're able to proceed: are you carrying your backpack? It might be a good idea to get it transported and lighten the load you are putting on your body. Also if you don't use poles they might also be helpful - but check out how to use the...
While biking on a path along the Mississippi river with my husband and friends in 2015, we passed a woman who was walking with a backpack and using hiking poles. I'd recently returned from my first Camino and she reminded me of all the pilgrims...
I walked the "Grenslandpad" (Border Country Trail, between Holland & Belgium) in August 2021. I was getting along nicely, about two or three days left to go. I met an 84-year-old gentleman who addressed me from his bike on the outer dike of South...
Here in rural France during past years my husband and I ran a b&b/pilgrim house in our farmhouse facing the Marne river as part of the Chaîne d'Hospitalité Locale .
My first pilgrim shell from 2004 hung at the door marking it as a pilgrim...
Hi David, thank you for your interesting posts, I enjoy reading them.
There was an Irish College in Salamanca
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_College_at_Salamanca
An interesting book was also written in 2019, "The Salamanca Diaries...
Sunday 27 October 2024
Another quiet day, also with 4 pilgrims, all Spanish, 2 of whom already walking the Via Augusta from Cadiz.
I was clearly very tired yesterday. I went to lie down shortly after 10, phone in hand, figuring it would wake me...
Do you get free accomodation while volunteering in Saint Jean?
What about food? From @David Tallan thread about Salamanca there seems to be a deal where hospitaleros get some discount at one restaurant but i guess that is not the case...
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