For 2024 Pilgrims: €50,- donation = 1 year with no ads on the forum + 90% off any 2024 Guide. More here. (Discount code sent to you by Private Message after your donation)
As a sometimes snorer, and one who has had his toe pulled on occasion, and who has investigated alleviation practices without permanent success, I would state as follows.
If you are going to stay in a hostel realize as a fact that snorers come...
The advice re placement and back pack straps is excellent, if I was you I would put my back pack on now, with no shirt on, and mark with a pen where they are, and ask the surgeons to do their best to avoid.
A Pacemaker should cause very little to...
[Moderators, feel free to move this if I posted in the wrong place.]
What does it take to be able to walk a Camino after a heart problem? I guess I will see for myself.
Tomorrow morning I am having surgery to implant a pacemaker. It was the...
I think dry stuff handles hot dryers relatively OK. When I used the laundrette in Ponferrada to decontaminate my 'delicate' items, nothing got shrivelled, thankfully. I had a nylon shopping bag from Ikea that went in the hot dryer which came out...
The standard response to what to do when you get bed bugs, is to wash and dry everything at 60 degrees.
But if you do that to your silk sleeping bag liner or your merino socks or t shirts or down sleeping bag, then I believe that the items would...
Hello- I’ve on
I’ve only walked one and that was Portuguese coastal. Because of where I come from and choosing to walk alone I couldn’t go with the Camino will provide outlook - I planned quite a lot at fairly short notice- I did have to make...
I live in a medium sized town in New Zealand. I am 80 years old so I have time to spare. The locals say that I am a "professional volunteer" because I volunteer for anything that needs doing in the town This includes helping in Op-Shops, helping...
I think that this is a very good thread, as it has people evaluating and articulating their beliefs. People, in fact, can have different ideas, or takes, and not be the Devil. I will confess that I found the constant refrain of the "Camino...
This site is run by Ivar at in Santiago de Compostela.
This site participates in the Amazon Affiliate program, designed to provide a means for Ivar to earn fees by linking to Amazon