LeslieC

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Joined: Jul 20, 2024

Last seen: Yesterday at 10:05 PM

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  LeslieC reacted to MaxHelado's post in the thread Favourite Accommodation Splurge along the Camino with Like.
  
  Paradors still offer the Pilgrim's Rate. It is usually the same rate as their advance booking rate BUT without the advance booking conditions (which are non-refundable, pay in advance). So as a Pilgrim you get the lowest rate but can pay when...
  
  Aug 19, 2024
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  LeslieC replied to the thread Favourite Accommodation Splurge along the Camino.
  
  So many good suggestions above ... this could get expensive! A couple of posts hint at a 'pilgrim rate'. In the first Camino book I ever read (Jack Hitt's Off the Road) he mentions going to the parador in Leon and being offered a better rate...
  
  Aug 19, 2024
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  LeslieC replied to the thread Where do ( did ) you walk locally in 2024?.
  
  There are many good walking tracks around Wellington, and I've been spending quite a bit of time on the Southern Walkway as I see about getting into Camino trim. (I'll move on to some of the others if/when I get bored and/or fitter.) This is...
  
  Aug 18, 2024
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  LeslieC replied to the thread Where have you felt a deep sense of community on the Camino?.
  
  My favourite Camino community moment came at Cirueña, just before Santo Domingo. (It turned out to be my last day of walking; I developed an unhappy knee, which got steadily more unhappy as that day went on.) I was walking with my French Camino...
  
  Aug 13, 2024
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  LeslieC replied to the thread A quote that seemed "camino" to me this morning.
  
  I like Bill Manhire's I live at the edge of the universe, like everybody else. Feels very 'Camino', where we meet so many nationalities.
  
  Aug 8, 2024
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  LeslieC replied to the thread Our Lady of Orisson Statue.
  
  Has the statue been moved, then? It's a while since I was there, but my memory is it was right beside the Camino, up on a rock. And when my wife and I visited in 2004, the baby's head had been replaced by a doll's. Looked very funny!
  
  Aug 3, 2024
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  LeslieC replied to the thread Gradient Graphs for Camino Frances.
  
  Thanks, Camo - that's going to be very useful. But was anybody else puzzled by the 'north is down' orientation? Walking right-to-left feels backwards to me.
  
  Jul 26, 2024
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  LeslieC reacted to J Willhaus's post in the thread Madrid to Leon via Train -- How to do it? with Like.
  
  Sometimes depending on the class of your ticket, you get the Cercanías train ticket to the station for free. If you buy the train ticket in advance look for the words Cercanías Combinado. This means you use a qr code to access the Cercanías...
  
  Jul 24, 2024
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  LeslieC reacted to LTfit's post in the thread Protocol: spending more than one night in an albergue with Like.
  
  Yes, this is so true (on both points). I was a hospi in the municipal in Zamora and we had a German pilgrim who was obviously in distress. A fellow hospi (a real hardcore volunteer who worked by the book and then some) insisted she first have a...
  
  Jul 24, 2024
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  LeslieC reacted to Dean Morgenthal's post in the thread Protocol: spending more than one night in an albergue with Like.
  
  It’s up to the Albergues and Hospitelero ie sick or injured it’s very doubtful you will be turfed out. It’s also your attitude and the hospitelero 😀 but expect to be on the streets as they ask you to leave for cleaning and return on opening...
  
  Jul 23, 2024
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