David, I would love to watch your Youtube video/documentary as it was mentioned in post #5. Would you please share the link here?
How wonderful you are finding a creative way to continue helping pilgrims, not only with their minor injuries, but...
A friend just told me about a Netflix series called Gangs of Galicia, and I started watching. Haven’t got the nuances of the plot yet, but so far there are scenes in Combarro, Arousa and Pontevedra. It’s dubbed in, nice to have even a weak...
Of the six private albergues I stayed in on the Primitivo (Sep 23), all were co-ed. Couples got a top and a bottom bunk if one was available.
I always got bottom bunk, either because I arrived early ( short day) or the hospitalero/a took one...
No, you’re not. Having witnessed the partial collapse of the top bunk in an Irish hostel when a hefty, visibly and audibly inebriated pilgrim was trying to roll into it, I’d rather cede the right to the bottom bunk to anyone heavier than I am.
ops... we don't wear rings! :confused: The paradoxical thing if they will ever deny it, is that on the night of our wedding my wife and I slept in a hostel... 😆
We married in NZ, actually, in total solitude: just the Justice of Peace and her...
Slight tangent but I stayed in an albergue last week that saved lower bunks for those over 50! It’s great when local managers implement those type of working practices locally (where practical).
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