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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond color=#000080>Greatly Welcome
!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond color=#000080>Yes, I'll fear this modesty as
you'll find out sleeping amidst pilgrims of all kinds will fade
away....</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond color=#000080>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....</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond color=#000080>I disagree on this water intake (
) you propose, but as I was no pilgrim myself and just started...I learned it
the hard way ()</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond color=#000080>But still it was fun
!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond color=#000080> ( otherwise I would not be
here !!!)</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond color=#000080>so enjoy !</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Garamond color=#000080>Pieter from
Holland</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=caroldhiaFOX.NSTN.CA href="mailto:caroldhiaFOX.NSTN.CA">Carol
Bradley</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
href="mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU">GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:27
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> New Person Signing On.....</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV> Hi, I am in Nova
Scotia, the part of Canada that sticks out into the<BR>Atlantic above Maine
(for reference...), and with a friend drove the length<BR>of the Camino from
Roncesvalles over a 10-day period in summer 1999. It was<BR>a wonderful
experience, and to be in Santiago during the last Jubilee Year<BR>of the 20th
Century and see the botofumeiro swung twice at pilgrims' mass,<BR>has inspired
me to return and walk most of it when I have more time,<BR>hopefully before
too long as I am up there with Rosita Lila
agewise.<BR> I will weigh into the
"How much water?" controversy with a little question<BR>about "How Many
Toilets?", since the two are connected for most women, and<BR>I noticed
most of those advocating litres and litres of water were men!. I<BR>can
imagine that walking all day through remote Spanish countrysides
will<BR>probably remove most North American female false modesty, but there
were a<BR>lot of small towns that didn't look too well-supplied with
public<BR>conveniences.<BR> I
can recall from my hitchiking days in Europe that it worked best if
we<BR>didn't drink too much during the early part of the day, and loaded up
on<BR>liquids once we got where we were going. In this, I'm with
Rosita<BR>again.....<BR> BTW, the
Ottawa Citizen newspaper's editorial writer Robert Sibley hiked<BR>the Camino
(800 km) in the spring of this year, and his report is (was)<BR>on-line at <A
href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com">www.ottawacitizen.com</A> If
it's gone now, there's a photocopied<BR>edition of the 9-part series available
for a $5 money order....<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>