[Gocamino] Now Lice???

Jeff Mayor jmayor at occ.cccd.edu
Tue Oct 10 13:42:46 PDT 2006


The private Alberque in Estella, over the bridge and up the hill to the 
right was great. Very clean and friendly.
Jeff
On Oct 10, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Callie Householder wrote:

> We traveled the Camino from Oct to Nov last year and although we 
> didn't have
> bedbug bites a fellow pilgrim we met was eaten alive with them. We 
> stayed at
> the auberque in Estella, and unfortunately it being late in the season 
> they
> had pretty much stopped any cleaning or disinfecting of the rooms and
> showers. It was a real shame that our experience there was so awful 
> because
> instead of enjoying the beautiful town we headed out as quickly as 
> possible.
> Our friend on the walk that next day was covered with large bites and
> blotches all over her face and arms. I don't know if there was any 
> lice I
> was only glad that I didn't put myself in direct contact with the 
> bedding
> there. Sleeping bags saved us greatly!
>
> Callie
>
>
> On 10/10/06 1:42 PM, "Hathor821 at aol.com" <Hathor821 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> My first little camino took place May of this year and other  than 
>> more
>> pilgrims from countries where a daily shower is an event for the 7th  
>> day of
>> the
>> week, I don't see how this can be avoided other than for the  
>> albergues to
>> have
>> more money at hand to wash beds sheets and pillow  cases.
>>
>> In Castrojeriz I volunteered to help registering pilgrims  to the now
>> deceased hospitalero Jose (he died in the train crash of 2  months 
>> ago) and I
>> had to
>> rattle the donativo box on the ears of the pilgrims  coming from the 
>> East of
>> Spain and in my opinion it would have been easier to  squeeze juice 
>> from a
>> stone than from them.
>>
>> I have some pretty good, funny and sad stories.......for our  book.
>>
>> Patricia
>> Miami and my camino
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