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KiwiJohn reacted to natefaith's post in the thread Pilgrim House - 10th birthday party on Tuesday, July 23, 2024! with
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Hello everyone! Pilgrim House Welcome Center turns 10 years old this week! If you'll be in Santiago on Tuesday, July 23, please stop in to celebrate with us: We'll have an Open House and snacks all day long, so join us for the festivities if... -
Wet wool always has a distinctive odour, but it disappears when dry. If you have ever washed a wool sweater by hand, you would notice it. If you have never washed wool before, perhaps you were surprised and alarmed by it - it is the smell of wet...
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A ‘locals’ discount is not that unusual in UK in the smaller places. I have no problem with it either here or abroad.
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It’s a fine line but I am cool with that….you are a regular and giving lots of business all year round in off peak. Free drinker schemes get a thumbs up from me. It’s more the adhoc stuff. That said I guess I’m a hypocrite. In my youth I don’t...
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With regard to bars, not a big fan of a locals getting a discount. If a Spanish person came into my local bar in the UK and got charged more I would be disappointed tbh.
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If a local gets a discount on the price on the price list, thats fine by me, so long as I do not pay more than is on the price list. One is a discount, the other is dishonest.
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Ah thank you. Good insight. I tend to stay in Spain for months at a time, often frequent the same bars, reading my copy of Marca, the daily sport paper, and talk to the barman and the old fellas about football! Neighbourhoods I guess rather...
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Pretty grim that! Some places charge a surcharge sitting outdoors but I assume not in this case. That said I think Spain rates as one of the places LEAST [edited later, to insert that word, which was mistakenly omitted] likely to rip you off...
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Sure, this happens sometimes. But why get hot under the collar when a local gets a discount? It's not cheating, it's preferential treatment because you're perceived as the tourist and he's not. You'll be much happier when you let it go.
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I am on CF right now and just stopped in Os Arroxos Crispeta bar in Trabadelo. A Spanish pilgrim had exactly the same order as me and he paid 6.50 euro and I was charged 10.00 euro!!! It is not first time on Camino that I've experienced that and...
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