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The Ingles from Ferrol is 116 kms long. So doing it in three stages means stages of 38 kms per day. Too much for me. I usually do it in five days with these stages: -Day 1 - Ferrol - Pontedeume 25 kms. -Day 2 - Pontedeume - Betanzos 18 kms and a... -
There are two starting points for the Ingles, where do you plan to start from? You would be quite hard pushed to do it in three days from Ferrol, it's typically more like five days. You could do it in three days if you start from A Coruña, but...
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naplesdon replied to the thread The price of items in bars and cafes.Laurie, You know me very well. Harsh, perhaps but the gist of the OP's subject really got under my skin. There are very, very few places along the Camino bent on ripping-off pilgrims, they know there is a grapevine among us and if they do try...
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If you only take a little, you leave nothing or little. Like if coffe for 1,30 and you have 1,50 in coins, you might just leave the 20ct. Or not. No worries. The more upscale things get, you kinda should leave a little more, but nothing crazy.
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as @Molly Cassidy says above. The whole tipping thing has gone out of control in the US but you don’t need to worry about it in Spain.
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No, you do not need to tip. If you want to leave something, it's usual to round up the bill to a whole euro.
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naplesdon replied to the thread The price of items in bars and cafes.I will freely admit during the 10 years or so that I lived in Biarritz, the locals, like me, got freebies at closing time after lunch. We would get free pours from the open wine bottles left behind during the mid-day repas. They were excellent...
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Remember that if prices aren’t posted, locals don’t know either. We are talking here about very low price items such as a coffee or a glass of wine, things that tend to be priced more or less the same everywhere, so displaying the price is not...
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I am not certain if I would call it stupidity, but rather a shock/surprise that in Spain some issues are just not critical or relevant in ways which they are in one's home country. As an example, buying coffee in Ottawa my eyes (of Loyalist... -
These are family-run village bars, which serve as social centres for locals, as well as pit stops for pilgrims passing through. It seems totally reasonable that the bar owners might treat their friends to a break-even price or even an orujo or...
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