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Hi Julie and others walking Sept/Oct - I walked these months a few years back and will be back again this Oct. You are right that it's hot at the beginning and cold/wet during the end. I ended up ditching my warm thermals/vest in the first few days as my pack was way too heavy and I didn't need...
From another tea-lover: take more than a few bags!! Tea drinking is not big in Spain and some supermercados dont even sell it. What you can buy, can be pretty awful. For my upcoming next Camino, I'm taking a whole box of my favourite (organic, fairtrade, black tea), hang the weight!
Caitlin, I loved your list and when you wrote 'go for your life' I thought this girl must be Australian and you're from Melbourne too! Have you left for your Camino yet? I leave 4 weeks from today, also from Melbourne.
Anyway - bravo for putting in your completely honest list. I'm low...
Oh Rebekah, I laughed out loud so much on this one; my neighbour must be wondering what's going on! Thanks so much for the warning; I have bought my pacer poles for my first camino next month but am duly conscious now not to become a 'Pacer Bore'! So funny the various obsessive threads on...
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