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    Urdax monastery

    ...nothing in Ainhoa (they shop in Souraide or Ustaritz), but there is a very large grocery store just 50 meters past the border into Spain (3km after Ainhoa). If you have the opportunity and the budget, stop for a meal at the restaurant in Ainhoa at the Hotel Itthurria. *Astonishing*. Buen Camino!
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    Urdax monastery

    ...(I'm not picky when hungry). When I needed a taxi to avoid a hail storm on the following day and my e-SIM/whatsapp limitations meant I could not *phone* for a taxi, the staff were unhelpful... they told me they would call for me, and I waited... until at 11am when a promised taxi had not...
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    Near Death Experience on the Camino Baztan: A Cautionary Tale

    ...well-marked path out of Ustaritz (After the cemetery, going uphill and reaching the D22 I think) was not well-marked at all in May. I went around *twice* and to the right of the little chapel (just to be sure I was not missing something). There were no signs, no arrows, and no path. There...
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    Near Death Experience on the Camino Baztan: A Cautionary Tale

    Have been there! The Baztan is not for the faint of heart (weather changes, and narrow roads, and long hauls between stopping points...). If ever I walk it again, I will not do so alone. Glad you are safe. Do rest up! If you are too tired when you are nearing Pamplona, hop into the Albergue...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    I'm so glad that in real life the people I walk with and become friends with on each camino (who are usually far older than I, and *usually* less "liberal") are disinclined to worry more about perceived "tone" than they are about the facts of appalling, obnoxious and harmful *behaviour* that...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    I'm afraid you have not understood the difference between *all people* and a *specific set of examples* in the original post. What I said was that everyone brings unconscious stuff with them, and that is the way of human beings, but that it would be nice if we all aimed to leave overt...
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    Jewish Quarters?

    Hang a left into Campo instead of staying on the main road into Ponferrada. You will find yourself in the remains of what was once the Jewish quarter, and will arrive into Ponferrada via the Calle el Hospital. I will look to see what I have been able to capture in photos... @wisepilgrim has a...
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    Acknowledging that the purpose of pilgrimage to SDC has changed

    I'm just going to park here as an observation that ignorance is relative. Proficient literacy in the written word in the western world was exceptional until the late 19th C, and for Canada (where I live), even into the 1910's literacy beyond a primary school level applied only to about 30% of...
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    Acknowledging that the purpose of pilgrimage to SDC has changed

    But they *were* under direction to visit those places -- not as historical in a past sense, but as historical in the 'living history' sense: as the representation of the very best that the age had to offer... more important, particularly sacred, holding knowledge and cultural value that their...
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    Another The Way Filming Location Query

    I have long thought that Daniel was a very poor anthropologist, doomed either to die or to flunk out of the dissertation for careless fieldwork practice...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    ...half my age, and by the following morning he felt the need to tell everyone he was going to punch me out... because why???? We let him have *his camino* and moved the hell out of his way. The behaviour was not merely offensive; it was threatening and dangerous. But it is a stop too far for...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    It depends... and I've seen it overtake a group from the one rare person who kept popping off at the innocent. The request is nothing more than "while you are training your body, remember to think about whether you really need to moan that one's freeeeedom is being policed because we have...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    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.
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    ...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 *punch* because after he had finished with his paranoid hallucinations about the young Israeli couple, he moved on to *me*... it's not up to me to...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    Absolutely!
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    Rest step - has anyone used this technique on steep uphill sections?

    Tried this on the week-end with some very steep local paths. WONDERFUL!!! My heart rate was completely in my control... I could push it if I wanted to for the workout, but I could also use this technique, never go over 122 bpm on a hill that usually takes me to 146-ish, and then, at the top...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    ...to someone who is gender non-conforming, and as a "cute" woman who get snarked at for not having a feminine voice, snark about pronouns is actually *frightening*. Is that person going to shove me off a path? Or my kid should I choose to take *THEM*? We were genuinely afraid as a group of...
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    A general "don't bring/don't pack" in your attitude kit

    Do not bring hatred or hostility in your kit. Any of us will carry an unknown bias (that's how it works)... but phobias and hostilities about sex/gender... don't bring that with you. Don't bring sexism, misogyny, ageism, racism, ethnocentrism etc. on the camino. Remember that for any given...
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    What would you tell a new pilgrim NOT to do ?

    Except for this; great list. Compeed *is not* made for blister prevention. Compeed is a re-purposed colloid dressing (same as used for stoma 'wounds' (that is: open holes generally for drainage out of the body). The colloid protects against abrasion, prevents the wound from growing larger...
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    Comment by 'Perambulating Griffin' in media 'Camino Portugues.jpg'

    I think this is merely a memorial to shoes that gave up... aestheticised littering.

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