I’ll second (or third) percebes - goose barnacles. You might need to be shown how to eat them! They seem very expensive, until you see how they are gathered, at which point they seem ridiculously cheap.
I'm drawing a complete blank*. If it's that good a book surely it should be shared with those of us not familiar with it?
*caveat - I'm on camino so my intellectual brain is working at say 50% 😂, I always get a bit brain slow down after a week...
Wow, that nitpick escalated quickly.
I am a historian. The history of the Camino de Santiago routes is very much in existence, in all kinds of historic, cultural, geographical, and architectural ways. It is not regulated or owned by the...
I think this writer is addressing a fairly specific group of men, not “all men.” Trying to make these comments about “all men” is a way to dismiss what is being said.
I don't think she's tarring all men with the same brush.
I think she encountered someone who truly frightened her with inappropriate behaviour.
I think it can be difficult to understand if this type of behaviour hasnt been directed at you...
Um... wow.
I have very very explicitly addressed the issue of those men who could not leave their hostility at home.
If it doesn't apply to you, then there's no problem.
And I'm not a comic, for which I make no apology.
I see your effort to settle the waters and compromise and I wish that it worked, but it doesn't. I am going to put forward that it's time for the social dinosaurs to rethink or go extinct.
As the one that the ex-military guy was going to...
"¿Me pones dos cervezas?" would be the equivalent of "Can I get 2 beers?" I know the literal translation sounds very weird in English, but that's how people say it, and it's perfectly polite.
Literal translations are a recipe for disaster... 😅
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