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    How to get rid of bed bugs from silk and merino items?

    You can put most sensitive fabrics in a hot dryer if they are DRY. Run them through a hot dryer cycle dry first, and they won't shrink, then wash and dry normally.
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    Overcrowded Camino Frances

    Keep in mind that Booking.com has little to do with actual availability. Hotels don't post all of their rooms and many other small places aren't listed at all. It's a little more trouble, but calling directly is much more likely to find you a bed.
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    Luggage transfer

    You can decide daily. Most services just have tags that you put on your bag, and a website to register it and send payment. Super easy.
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    Knee pain...help!

    I had nearly exactly experience. My Dr gave me a referral for physical therapy, which was mostly strengthening both quads & hamstrings. He explained that when all the muscles around the knee are strong, they take most of the weight and strain. I'd try that next...
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    How to get a Compostela on behalf of someone else?

    When you get your Compostela, they will not give you two, or put another name on it, but will put on it "Walked on behalf of........." or words to that effect. You just tell them in the pilgrim office in Santiago when you are getting it. We did it last summer for a relative.
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    Booking Orisson

    Not uncommon in winter, they will get back to you eventually.
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    Share your backpack choice with your body info!

    69 y/o, 5'10" 200 lbs male, I've done 2 Frances with a 36L Osprey, perfect for me.
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    How much did you spend and what was the total cost of your Camino Frances, start to finish?

    I have done it for under $20/day in 33 days, municipal hostels & donativos, and eating picnics and ramen for my meals, spending under $650 total, and I have just done it again this year, a few years older and more financially solvent for about $3,000 in 38 days, around $80/day using fairly...
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    Euro Phone Charger with Dual Output

    Just buy one when you get there, you will easily find one in any department store or phone/electronics shop or bodega where you get your sim. Much easier to do in Spain.
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    Problems convincing youth to go on a Camino...any experience?

    "Youth" are individuals. It wouldn't make sense to ask how to motivate "Adults" to hike the Camino, as though they are a single bloc with identical beliefs, wishes and motivations. Seek out those youths for whom the experience resonates, and your job will be easier...
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    Trekking poles

    We would love for you to have them! This will be their 3rd Camino, so they should know where they are going. We will leave them at the desk Monday for Karyn. It's Hotel Alda Catedral at 22 Rua do Franco, a pedestrian street near the Cathedral. Buon Camino!
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    Trekking poles

    We are in Santiago until Monday and have a good set you can have if you want. Just let me know and we can leave them at the hotel desk. Buon CaminoI
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    Hiking poles (please bear with me) need honest advice.

    They help me a lot with this. I think that helping to keep them elevated, and the muscles pumping, helps to reduce the oedema, which happens to me even when I am well hydrated.
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    Taking a Type 1 diabetic teen to Camino - what to expect?

    Ah, exactly right, I did not notice that this was the Primitivo, my comments only referenced my experience on the Frances. Thanks to all for catching that, and for offering better "local" advice.
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    Taking a Type 1 diabetic teen to Camino - what to expect?

    You should find fridges at night without much problem, just ask, and also good, fully stocked pharmacies at some point during nearly every day's walk. Bring prescriptions with you, with generic names too if possible, depending on what s/he is taking, and even if you have issues, you should be...
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    guide for CF in pilgrims office?

    And any smartphone will let you download a variety of guidebook apps that can be used on or offline.
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    Personal Locator Beacon

    Absolutely no need. Good cell service (call 112), good infrastructure, and if you get hurt, you can just call a cab to the hotel and bar, or an ambulance as appropriate. The Primativo isn't really more "primative", just older.....
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    Non-thinking Pilgrims taking Short-cut!

    We need to all remember that on every step of the Camino we are in someone else's home, and they are graciously and unselfishly hosting thousands of us every year. I have also read people's comments about eating "the delicious grapes until we couldn't eat any more" when traversing the Navarre...
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    Walking The Camino Without Training. Fool's Errand?

    D Did my first (Frances) last year at age 61, 50 lbs overweight, off the couch with virtually no training, and I survived just fine and will be back with my wife this fall for another one. I worried until I looked at the guidebook and realized that there are places to stay along nearly the...
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    Keep current backpack?

    Fit and familiarity is by far what's most important, and if it fits you well, go with it, it's not huge and cinches down a bit as well. As others have said, just resist the temptation to over pack just because you have a little extra space!

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