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  1. AllanHG

    COVID Covid test availability?

    Does anyone know if Paxlovid is available if one does test positive and is sick enough to need the antiviral medication? If so, how would you get it? thanks,
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    Favorite variant of Camino Portugues?

    My wife and I walked the Portuguese Camino in 2017 and want to walk the coastal route, starting in Porto, next May. How much of the coastal route is actually on the coast and how much is inland? It sounds like it is flat compared to walking inland through Galicia? Is most of the walking on...
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    wearing a backpack over a pacemaker -- any problem?

    My wife has a pacemaker and it was actually pretty challenging to carry a backpack before we figured out a way to do it so that there was no pressure on the leads or battery (she is thin so can feel the leads and the battery just below her clavicle). She ended up not carrying her backpack on our...
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    Another Video - Using the Toilet on the Camino

    Thanks for the video on toileting on the Camino. We walked the Camino Frances in the fall of 2017 and we’re shocked to see the piles of human feces and toilet paper along (and sometimes on) the trail. We’d sometimes walk up to a lovely spot to sit and rest, have a snack and enjoy the view to...
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    Video: How to Avoid Blisters - It Can be Done

    We also avoided blisters by using carded wool to wrap around any hot spots - or areas that we thought might rub. It is cheap, lightweight, easy to use (and reuse) and antibacterial. We always brought extra and gave it away to people who had blisters. Another thing that really helped was to...
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    Questions from first timer

    I’m not as worried about wild and domestic animals as I am about the terrain because of my knees. I’ve walked the Frances and Portuguese Caminos (using poles and sometimes not carrying my pack to reduce weight) but I’ve heard that terrain is tougher on this Camino. Thanks.
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    Uproar over the renovations of San Marcos (the parador in León)

    It looks like it’s in the middle of beautiful countryside but is Ourense on a Camino? I hadn’t heard of that town so I looked it up and it seems to be south of the Camino Frances and east of the Camino Portuguese?
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    2021 Reservations

    We’re you able to cancel reservations without penalties? And are you able to do that now for 2021? At the risk of sounding like a pessimist, we don’t quite know what next year will bring yet. Thanks,
  9. AllanHG

    The North Path

    Feel free to ask any questions that you have. I can tell you that there aren’t the same facilities that we are used to in Spain or Portugal and you’ll need a sleeping bag - dome of the accommodations were pretty primitive and there was at least one time we had to swim to clean ourselves up...
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    The North Path

    There is a good guide book that you can order online through that site as well. I used it when I walked it 2 years ago and it was really helpful to find accommodation, food, maps, etc. It was really helpful in some areas where I couldn’t get an internet connection.
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    litter on the Camino?

    We walked the Camino in 2015 and were shocked and appalled by the amount of garbage, plastic and human excrement along the paths and occasionally right on it. I recall many times that we sat down on a rock for a rest/snack to find a pile of human feces and used toilet paper behind them. I am...
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    Camino for someone who is unable to walk a lot. Is it possible?

    I walked the Portuguese Camino in 2017 with my wife, who has challenged with her knees. There were a couple of days when we needed to call taxis (because of distance or elevation) and we just went into bars or restaurants and asked them to phone for the taxi. We usually had lunch or coffee while...
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    Off the beat tracks, alone with myself

    You could try St.Olav’s Way From sundsvall to Trondheim (guide books available in English). I went last August with a friend and we met 5 or 6 other pilgrims. We didn’t camp but stayed in some pretty primitive pilgrim shelters and hunting cabins (as well as people’s homes and small...
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    Hungarian Walk of Friendship & European Peace Walk (EPW)

    Thanks for the information. I'd heard about this walk in Hungary but had trouble finding a lot of information without the correct name for it. It appears from their website that you can only do this walk if you do the walk on certain dates and organize it through this organization? How much...
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    DIY hiking wool?

    We've used natural carded wool, bought in a skein from a yarn/knitting store. It is anti-bacterial, light weight, really cheap and you pull off as much as you need to protect tender spots on your feet. You can re-use it as many times as you want. We usually put Neutrogena Norwegian Formula foot...
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