New Person Signing On.....

[pieter pannevis]

Greatly Welcome !
Yes, I'll fear this modesty as you'll find out sleeping amidst pilgrims of all kinds will fade away....
If there are bars in small places they are absolute ly clean, but the toilets and douches in the alberques .....In this way some pilgrims Literally spoil it for others, however 1 toilet/douche for 70 people who like to get started at the same time in the morning....
I disagree on this water intake ( ) you propose, but as I was no pilgrim myself and just started...I learned it the hard way ()
But still it was fun !
 ( otherwise I would not be here !!!)
so enjoy !
Pieter from Holland
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carol Bradley 
  To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:27 AM
  Subject: New Person Signing On.....


          Hi, I am in Nova Scotia, the part of Canada that sticks out into the
  Atlantic above Maine (for reference...), and with a friend drove the length
  of the Camino from Roncesvalles over a 10-day period in summer 1999. It was
  a wonderful experience, and to be in Santiago during the last Jubilee Year
  of the 20th Century and see the botofumeiro swung twice at pilgrims' mass,
  has inspired me to return and walk most of it when I have more time,
  hopefully before too long as I am  up there with Rosita Lila agewise.
          I will weigh into the "How much water?" controversy with a little question
  about "How Many Toilets?", since the two are  connected for most women, and
  I noticed most of those advocating litres and litres of water were men!. I
  can imagine that walking all day through remote Spanish countrysides will
  probably remove most North American female false modesty, but there were a
  lot of small towns that didn't look too well-supplied with public
  conveniences.
           I can recall from my hitchiking days in Europe that it worked best if we
  didn't drink too much during the early part of the day, and loaded up on
  liquids once we got where we were going. In this, I'm with  Rosita
  again.....
          BTW, the Ottawa Citizen newspaper's editorial writer Robert Sibley hiked
  the Camino (800 km) in the spring of this year, and his report is (was)
  on-line at www.ottawacitizen.com   If it's gone now, there's a photocopied
  edition of the 9-part series available for a $5 money order....

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