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Always check the small print. I once had 2 policies due to being complimentary to other products. As I was going to the Dolomites I read them in detail and found that one of them would not cover the altitude I was intending to walk at. Indeed as soon as I stepped out of the hotel it was above...
As it is Western Europe the weather can change in a matter of hours and generally a really long range forecast is nothing more than speculation.
Try something like AccuWeather that you will be happy with in your own language and which gives 5 day, day and 4 hour rainfall accuracy
This can be regarded as part of the ‘festival culture’ of ‘someone else will clear up what we are too lazy to dispose of properly or take home.
Alas I see it all the time now in remote mountain shelters. Dump it as someone else might use my stinking hoodie, disgusting sleeping bag …. And in any...
😂 yes strange looks indeed. The dog doesn’t mind and neither do I as I am dry!
This is my second poncho and the other as described by the OP is not up to much. My Decathlon one in in reality a long jacket or better, a coat. Pit zips, sleeves, pocket entry and the ability to run a belt from...
I carried a ‘wind shirt’ and a poncho. Poncho was for the rain and wind shirt - what it says on the tin, means it cuts the wind and ventilates well in the way that a waterproof jacket does not. In short it is much more comfortable to wear over any combination of clothing assuming it is not...
You have reminded me of the old ‘shuttle cough’ generally picked up on the short hop from Scotland to London. Most folks succumbed to the bug festooned air in the plane
I totally agree. Love using books for preparation and indeed writing on/ placing notes in but they do date very quickly.
I tend to put everything onto the phone which you are carrying anyway - book, Apps, photos of specific items or instructions, tickets etc.
I do carry paper but very little...
Anyone that thinks Covid is over is kidding themselves. A few weeks ago I felt under par and in particular struggled to read (if you remember back to the beginning eyesight was one of the symptoms)
Eventually it twigged and I tested finding it to be positive.
A few weeks later my wife also had...
As has been alluded to above by Peter, WhatsApp uses data (4G very often) as such it is not a phone and connects through a VIOP signal to speak to another person (Voice Over Internet Protocol) in effect it is a computer speaking to another computer. If the receiving computer does not have the...
I carry Kindle books on my phone. Small pages but does the job as you are taking a phone with you anyway I presume.
Basically there is little time to read in any case unless you shut yourself off from other pilgrims or sit and read as opposed to sightsee on a rest day.
I barely had to time to...
My friend is currently on the Camino Portuguese - a route that he has walked before and has now seen a number of markings as below. What does the Red Cross out signify?
I have seen many mosquitoes in southern Spain but have not been bothered in the north. What I have seen both north and south is processional caterpillars. Basically you see them and a long furry line. They have poisonous spines that break off into your skin. Look but do not touch!
Fleece definitely. Fleece retains 35% of thermal ability when utterly soaking, wool does 50%, down jacket does ZERO.
A synthetic puffa keeps more heat than down when sodden.
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