What @trecile said. I've made no secret that i am a heavy CC user. So as such I paid for most of my lodgings with a credit card. Some I "prepaid" couple of days ahead when I made a reservation (mostly via WhatsApp)
some i paid on the spot when i...
I started out right at the top of the thread vaguely suggesting that it was a pretty silly idea, but if the lad wanted to carry his board most of the way, why not?
69 posts later I’m now firmly on his side and look forward to reports of him...
Memories Stay
Sometimes it shined so bright
Everything felt warm and right
And sometimes the clouds were grey
When you had to go away
All the times we woke up late
The two of us just tempting fate
Always had you by my side
Even on the darkest...
Indeed, I remember back in 2001 an Australian hospitalera at Santo Domingo de la Cazalda who kept an elderly Irish lady there for three nights using the simple expedient of hiding her boots - Hester had undergone a double hip replacement and had...
I agree with @henrythedog that he’ll be carrying it virtually all of the way. However, I, too, would encourage him to bring it as he could ride it around towns and villages at the end of each walking day. I’m sure he’ll meet a number of other...
I'm on day three back at work from walking the Camino Frances. I feel a bit homesick. I could have lived that life indefinitely I think. I wasn't ready for it to be over, when it was over.
My wife said it best: "The Camino is what the...
I always bought a tin of sardines in olive oil as a backup meal, mashed over fresh bread or even supermarket crispbreads, drizzled with the oil mmmmmmm and would get through perhaps 3 tins on a CF but sometimes a tin would "hide" in the bottom of...
In the big supermarkets in the UK the tinned fish aisle is mainly Tuna and sardines and is only shelving about four feet wide ... go into a big supermarket in Spain and the tinned fish aisle is about 3 kms long! (well, seems to be - and the...
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