a stick!

[sulu]

Is it easy to find a stick when leaving from Seville? I rather get the impression there is not much woodland. I don't want poles, just something to help me up and down hills and to deter any unfriendly dogs. Will I be better off trying to buy something in Seville?
Thanks
Sue

 

[JohnnieWalker]

Hola - yes not much woodland until you are out a bit. Buy a brush pole for 2 or 3€ - you might still have it when you get here!

Buen camino

John

 

[sulu]

Thanks John,
What a brilliant idea, I hadn't thought of something so simple. I'm only walking to Cacares this time, but I won't mind ditching a brush pole.
thanks
Sue

 

[Abbeydore]

Thanks John,
What a brilliant idea, I hadn't thought of something so simple. I'm only walking to Cacares this time, but I won't mind ditching a brush pole.
thanks
Sue

oooooh, dangerous words, you might get firmly attached to your stick

 

[dougfitz]

oooooh, dangerous words, you might get firmly attached to your stick

So true. I still have an ash pole that I acquired in England in 1979. I walked with it regularly until 2002, when I bought my first technical pole. It has served may other purposes - chook herding, snake catching and recovery of valuable objects from behind the furniture ... .

My now adult children have never really known life without that stick being around the house as a reminder that being outdoors is much more fun on a fine day than being inside.

 

[fraluchi]

Hola - yes not much woodland until you are out a bit. Buy a brush pole for 2 or 3€ - you might still have it when you get here!

How true, but not only: you might get fond of it and take it home!

 

[sulu]

How true, but not only: you might get fond of it and take it home!

oooooh, dangerous words, you might get firmly attached to your stick

No worries, Ryanair won't let me I'm sure :lol:

 

[sulu]

Buy a brush pole for 2 or 3€

This was the most excellent advice Johnnie. I went to a Chinese shop and bought; a brush handle, a mug, a bottle opener/penknife and an excercise book for €3.60! I'm obviously the last of the big spenders The handle has been incredibly useful, mostly for trying to cross streams, I had no idea there would be so many and it hasn't rained for ages. God help anyone who walks after it has rained
Sue