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I have slept about 200 nights in albergues from 2009 on, while walking my several Caminos and one time i got seriously bitten by fleas: it was during my Camino del Norte in 2010, just after i passed Santander (it was in an Albergue called Regato de las Anguilas: i don't know if it's still...
You're right but once your backpack get infested by bedbugs you are going to spread them in any place you'll sleep in.
Not so fair towards the albergues and the other pilgrims...
Whenever you notice your things are possibly infested you should warn some hospitaler@: (s)he knows what to do to...
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