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there are all kinds of inflatable shapes available, why stop at boring old balloons? Fill up your travel pillow with helium, or your kid's paddle pool! How about one of those adult-toy life-size dolls? Take a load off your back, and be the life...
Just had a look at the properties of methane. Less dense than air and therefore another possible lifting gas. On routes like the Primitivo where there is frequent access to fabada asturiana and sidra natural it might be a useful alternative...
My preference for using one pole exactly mirrors Camino Chrissy's post. Except I bring my one pole with me --- AND I haven't broken any body parts -- yet. Buen Camino
I always just carry one, a very light carbon fiber Black Diamond. It is usually folded up in the side pocket of my backpack. But where the footing is tricky -- rocky, muddy, slippery, very steep, crossing streams -- it is an invaluable third...
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We are on the Camino and wanted to warn our fellow travellers to stay away from O MUINO camping/ bungalow Park.
They have signs on the road from Mougas saying pilgrim breakfast available, claiming to be the last one before Baoina.
There are...
I have walked to the tomb of the apostle along the four major approaches, ie from Ferrol, Sarria (from SJPP), Tui (from Lisbon) and Ourense. I know that there are people who find Sarria to SDC busy, and suggest it is boring. It is busy, but of...
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