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    El Cascayal replied to the thread Kilometre markers.
    Yes, of course! No, whether we acknowledge them or not, numbers matter.
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    El Cascayal reacted to Jeff Crawley's post in the thread Kilometre markers with Haha Haha.
    No time to get those two sellos either! Ultreia y Suseia! ;)
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    El Cascayal reacted to Jeff Crawley's post in the thread Kilometre markers with Haha Haha.
    And always too far!
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    El Cascayal reacted to Tincatinker's post in the thread Kilometre markers with Haha Haha.
    Yep, that’s gonna come as a bit of a shock to the shiny geared who’ve done their 30 minutes out of Sarria - only 100 thousand km to go and only 5 days to do it in… better skip that second breakfast 😉
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    El Cascayal reacted to Jeff Crawley's post in the thread Kilometre markers with Like Like.
    Reminds me of the story about Mt Everest - who was the first man to put two feet on top of Mount Everest? It turns out it was a man named Sir Andrew Scott Waugh who was the Surveyor General of India (in 1856). From survey data Radhanath Sikdar...
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    El Cascayal replied to the thread Kilometre markers.
    A fellow fossil here, used these as well. It is a stabbing brain pain to see this 3 decimal ridiculosity. Just round it out to one decimal and call it a good day.
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    El Cascayal reacted to trecile's post in the thread Kilometre markers with Wow Wow.
    Walking into Santiago the other day in the Invierno/Sanabrés I passed by a rare ,000 marker.
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    El Cascayal reacted to Jeff Crawley's post in the thread Kilometre markers with Thank you Thank you.
    Because the instrument they use has that (and more) digits in its display. When I trained as a civil engineer at the back end of the 1960s/start of the 1970s we used slide rules and log tables (don't ask). Addition and multiplication were done...
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    Hi Nick. Thanks for the reach out. I’m practically in your footsteps. In Lalín now, my daughter and son think I have a crush on Jungleboy because I use your daily report during our evening debrief. As I lay in my bunk after a nice nap, you have...
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    El Cascayal reacted to Pelegrin's post in the thread The NEW Camino Vello with Like Like.
    In the Middle Ages the presence of wolves or bears on certain areas could affect on the decision to take a particular way to Santiago.

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