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I think the question is wrong. If you're already having hot spots before you start the Camino, get different boots. With all the walking w a pack on your back, your feet will probably spread so why start with too-tight boots?
My daughter and I are on the Camino now and we're having great...
I'm walking on Camino now.
To me, walking in the rain is a minor issue. Walking when there's lightning during rain on flat Meseta when next cover is several km away is a bigger concern.
Don't just walk during the rain. Stay alert. Be willing to turn back or stay put under cover if lightning...
With the rain today turning the path to sticky, heavy mud, walking - and biking - was SLOWER on the Meseta, not faster. Drier skies expected tomorrow. Yea!
I'm walking the Camino w my 22-year old dtr so I understand your moms' worries.
Re bikes: listen to posters above. Walk.
Re safety: there are going to be short, slightly spooky stretches if you're city girls BUT you've got each other, you can wait for others to walk with you, you can bring a...
I'm hiking the Camino w my 22-year old daughter who's been away for 4 years at college and will move out on her own soon after we finish the Camino.
It's not so much through what I ask her but what she shares w others on our hike and socializing that I'm getting to know her. Later, I might ask...
I'm on the Camino now and saddened at the amount of TP along the path and in the bushes.
Ladies, please join me and learn to get over your city habits and "go" without TP. Humans existed for millenniums without it. You can do it! (pardon the pun.)
PS Don't forget, you'll probably have a hot...
Whari... Thanks for quick response. I've since learned from this forum that tickets Bayonne to SJPP are only 10 euros @ so we'll just buy them when needed tomorrow.
I'm Sleeping in Paris tonight, worried about getting housing in SJPP tomorrow night. I sent a few emails re reservations but no...
Wow. My daughter and I would really like to use those tickets as we tried to buy train tickets from Paris to SJPP today (May 8) for travel May 9 but website says sold out. So we bought train ticket Paris to Bayonne, then planned bus to SJPP.
Problem is we chose 10 am train from Paris to...
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