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[mdk]

I'm coming back to Spain in January to walk the via de la plata (Seville to Santiago de Compostela via Salamanca) in January.

This is a sneaky way to drop in on the odd language school in the sticks and network for work while I walk off these corn dogs.

Does anybody know somewhere that I can stash a small suitcase for a few months? I would be willing to pay a few euros a month so I'm not begging or anything.

Also my retirement is going to throw off about 50 euros a day (after the %^R%% exchange hit ) My memory is that should be enough to live on in Spain. Is that wrong? I don't live like a gringo.

[SirKirby]

Er... Isn't it going to be frightening cold in that part of Spain in January...? (It is, especially for walking).

50 euros a day should be enough -- unless you're living in hotels, that is...

[mdk]

I'm bringing my rain gear and long under wear. I remember there were some brits who froze in the Gredos because they thought it would be warm there in April, but the via de la plata is pretty much on the meseta.

I am training here in Fresno's so-called winter. I tested my bivy sack and sleeping bag out and it works well enough at 35 degrees, but that's only if I am benighted along the way. The alburgue's are all 20 to 30 km. apart and I can make that OK if I don't blister up. I may be a fat 62 year old man and I may dress funny, but I can still do 30 km. a day if my feet are toughened up and I am careful to madrugar.

One thing for sure, the meseta would be baking hot in the summer and if I stay in the states several more months, I would have to do something like the Florida trail or start regular work again. Phooey on that.

Pues, vamonos!

[wildchild]

long underwear? you mean long-johns, right?

drop you suitcase at an Irish pub.

[mdk]

Long Johns? Puhleeeze! These undies are too rich to be called that.

The britches are $55 jobs from REI which I bought a few months ago and the top is some hoity-toity stuff called "Capilene" that I bought at a ski-resort when I had more money than sense.

Thanks for the suggestion about the Irish Pub, but I have been too scared of them to go back in ever since they charged me 6 euros for a glass of stout in Barcelona. It was some place off Las Ramblas.

Speaking of stout I went into a "pub" in San Francisco recently, but left when I found out they didn't have a bottle of stout that wasn't cold in the whole place. Even for 6 euros.

[wildchild]