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    My packing list - Seeking for Advices

    I am new to Caminos but once put on a poncho when a storm came up while wild camping on Dartmoor. Within 5 minutes it was shredded to streamers by the wind. Very funny memory but hopeless rain resistance. Buy a good one!
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    Newby questions

    Hi Natbee, thank you for all of your research. The oils sound a much better option than spraying with chemicals. peter
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    Newby questions

    hi Pipmahoe, thanks for the information but another member has pointed out to me that Permethrin doesn't work on bed bugs and indeed they are not on the long list of bugs that Permethrin will kill on the can of Permethrin I have bought. It is rather baffling. Best wishes, Peter
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    Newby questions

    thanks Lainey, that was very helpful I can see that I have so much too learn. I will look the route up and have a close look at it. Best wishes Peter
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    Newby questions

    Hi Lainey, it is the mountain scenery that really attracts me to the Primitivo especially the Hospitales. I am very interested to know why El Salvador was your favourite route?
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    Newby questions

    Sorry I am a bit useless at this replying technology! But thank you Redvespablur, Andy,Csutak and Dinah for all of your helpful advice which I h have noted down. as to not treating it as a time trial it seems that a lack of stopping places on the Primitivo means that you are forced to walk a...
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    Bilbao to Oviedo

    Hi Alexandria, Thanks to Felices' bus and computer knowledge I should be in Oviedo 10.30 pm and be on schedule so I will definitely visit the cathedral and intend to sit in meditation there to start walk with peace. Just remembered I also have to get my 'Credential' there. I suppose they also...
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    Bilbao to Oviedo

    Bob, thanks for the tip but the problem was I didn't have a spare day and wanted to get from Engla nd to Oviedo in one day ready to walk in the morning. Felice thank you for being a computer wizard (which I am obviously not) and sorting out the times of the airport bus and ALSA bus for me. I...
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    Newby questions

    Thank you for the cycling advice. I have been surprised by the different attitudes of members to walking the Primitivo and I am beginning to wonder if the difference is due to some walking in perfect conditions while others have been baked and dehydrated the whole way,and others have trudged...
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    Bilbao to Oviedo

    Thanks Felice, that is really helpful my flight will land at 4-05 so if it not late and the luggage comes through quickly I should be able to get the 6-45 bus to Oviedo. I have seen three and a half and give and a half hours for the journey. Do you remember how long it took as I will need to let...
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    Newby questions

    Hi Alwyn, ah I see Buddhist breathing techniques! Is it mindfulness meditation on the pain of every small step? I will have to practice that step although I often run up the first hill near here but my back went three times over about 6 months of recovery until I learnt to shorten my step over...
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    Newby questions

    Just to say that I loved the elevation profile map on Grunge but whether I will love the reality is another matter.On this tablet the Godesalco site stayed in Spanish but still that km calculator is fantastic for planning. Thanks I am now going to overlay recommended night stops!
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    Bilbao to Oviedo

    Thank you both for taking the trouble to write. I had thought the bus went direct to Oviedo so Santander stop would have been a surprise! Best wishes, Peter
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    Newby questions

    Thanks to all three of you for this wealth of information and the websites which I shall study. I noticed on the Permethrin can that bed bugs were not among the beasties mentioned but assumed it was an oversight. So we can assume all the people on the other site who coated their clothes in...
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    Bilbao to Oviedo

    Thank you Alexandra that was really kind of you to go to so much trouble. The list of new allergies is really useful and I will use the link later. Many thanks, Peter
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    Newby questions

    Thanks for letting me know that, it makes a lot of sense. On the site I saw I got the impression that people were washing their clothes in Petherin on a regular basis plus spraying with deet I don't think I would want to live that way. Best wishes, Peter
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    Newby questions

    Thanks for the encouragement Jungleboy. Obviously people with experience know better but psychology is so importa, real challenges make me feel so alive and I tend to look on long challenges as just a number of short ones. Thanks again.
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    Newby questions

    Alwyn, I only just saw your very good advice that made me smile and suspect there is something of the mystic ascetic in you! 15 km s before breakfast! I actually went out before breakfast this morning at 6 a.m with the full rucksack and walked 5 kms including a flight of 100 steps. Was you...
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    Newby questions

    Thank you all so much for your advice it will all be an immense help to me. I must admit I am a bit surprised to be warned off the Primitivo as too difficult when on this site a couple in their eighties had just completed it in about 19 days. They walked the Hospitales and only complained that...
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    Bilbao to Oviedo

    Thank you both for your helpful advice I will go have a look at movelia site. Three veteran pilgrims out of five have gone out of their way to warn me against the Primitivo and suggested the Norte yet when I read my way through the Primitivo site over the weekend there was a couple in their...

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