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  1. ParistoCapeCod

    Do top bunks stop bed bugs?

    Nope. I battled the little creeps as a hospitalera. Pictures of what to look for bedbugs
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    Can you camp along the Camino?

    While this has not been the norm in the recent past for various reasons, I hope it will be more widely permitted for the next two years. It will be safer until there's a vaccine. Pay the donitivo or nightly rate and camp in the yard if there is one. There are few actual campgrounds along the...
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    Bed Bugs Bercianos del Real Camino at Santa Clara Albergue

    Please both put all of your clothes in a hot dryer, and your packs in plastic as they, or their eggs, will travel with you.
  4. ParistoCapeCod

    bed bugs

    Chinches are pilgrims, too.
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    What an Outlandish Suggestion !

    No vino no camino
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    Which Camino has the Worse Chinches?

    Pilgrims want/demand blankets and pillows (see all of the Do I needs a Sleeping Bag? questions) but most places have no ability to wash them. Those dirty blankets harbor more than just bedbugs and would make Gordon Ramsey's Hotel Hell look like the Georges V.
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    Norte Primitivo

    Essentially rain, rain then rain https://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:00000.1.08023
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    You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

    I'll add (les) culottes= womens' underpants and coulottes= gaucho-type split skirt. You can hike in either, but may need both!
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    You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

    Ha chunche might be mistaken for chinche which is bedbugs!
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    You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

    This is a really fun thread! One of my favorite faux amis (words that sound alike but have entirely different meanings): preservatives/preservatifs Those white boxes hanging outside French drugstores are vending condoms, not food preservatives! However, in a pinch... If you need medicine, you...
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    The new Compostela - certificate of distance travelled

    Why is this important to you? Heading westward on the norte
  12. ParistoCapeCod

    What are the Do's and Don'ts of Albergue Etiquette?

    Great tips throughout! There are excellent, free apps that create "white noise." I like Sleep Pillow. It has saved my marriage. It can be set to turn off after 15 minutes to an hour, and you can mix your own sounds (waves, rain, whales.) With earphones in I can sleep through an awful lot.
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    Walking with a teen?

    My son will be 10 when I do the camino in the spring. I can go earlier, in May, if he stays home but have to wait until late June if I take him. He is generally enthusiastic and a great traveler, but I worry about getting one day in and having to fly him home to dad! Would the Portuguese route...

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