Yes that’s exactly me. I am generally ok with 800km at 30km a day, but up and down a ladder is quite tricky. Mixture of an arm/rib issue, coming down and lowering one leg down and landing on it (physically painful and psychology an issue) and so...
In general, some people who are quite happy walking long distances in good shoes have challenges with the ladder rungs in bare feet or socks, or have challenges in climbing down from the top bunk and positioning themselves to do so, or have...
from https://www.monash.edu/muarc/archive/our-publications/reports/muarc123:
from https://www.duffyfirm.com/blog/bunk-bed-recalls-and-injuries-the-stats#:~:text=On average, there are 36,000,kids ages 6 and under. instead:
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Thankfully, my wife always takes the top bunk and lets me have the bottom. Ditto when I walk with my daughter or my son in law. It's a Buen Camino for an old guy.
It had been a longer than normal day in the rain when we arrived at a municipal alberque, the only option in the small village. The entry of the alberque was filled with about 15 other dripping wet Pilgrims, but the Hospitalera noticed us...
When my wife and I passed through Leon last spring, we read on Gronze that sleeping accommodations there were still segregated and chose a different albergue. So yes, they still do apparently.
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