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  1. Arthur Gil de Lamadrid

    Packing boots while in city

    I wear light weight Keen boots and carry ultra light sandals. I wear the boots any time I'm carrying my pack wether in town or out on the trail. I tend to need the ankle support and my boots are very light anyway. Once I get to a place where I can park my pack, I switch to bare feet and...
  2. Arthur Gil de Lamadrid

    The Solution to Toilet Paper for the Camino/Outdoors Anywhere!

    I bought this. Same concept. A little more compact. Same manufacturer as the Kilo Cloth. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B092KR5BW3/?tag=casaivar02-20
  3. Arthur Gil de Lamadrid

    Etiquette/ what to wear at churches

    Speaking as a Roman Catholic clergy, I know a pilgrim would be welcome in their pilgrim attire. I know when I did the Camino, I did not carry any special clothing and felt welcomed at mass. Please feel free to participate to the degree that you can. Even if you are from a Roman Catholic...
  4. Arthur Gil de Lamadrid

    Belt purchase in Logrono

    I've found that a length of parcord tied around the waist through the belt loops will make a good, temporary belt. Or, if you want to get fancy, you can braid a few lengths of parcord together to make a wider belt. When you find a real belt, you can always recoil your paracord and save it for...
  5. Arthur Gil de Lamadrid

    LIVE from the Camino On Camino Del Norte , Shoes starting to disintegrate.

    I also have wide feet and find that Keens regular width has plenty of extra width to accommodate my wide feet. Their footwear also comes in a wide width for those with really wide feet but I have found the wide width too wide for me.
  6. Arthur Gil de Lamadrid

    LIVE from the Camino Me and my umbrella - envy of the Camino

    I've had a Euroschirm trekking umbrella for years that I've used on several long trails including the Norte in 2019. It's served me in sun and rain and sleet and even in the occasional snow. I studied the pack lashing system and discovered they are easily made from two pieces of Paracord and...
  7. Arthur Gil de Lamadrid

    Medication question

    So, thus far, it sounds like no one has tried to purchase syringes at a pharmacy in Spain?
  8. Arthur Gil de Lamadrid

    Medication question

    I am on an injectable medication. However it is not administered via auto-injector. It comes in vials and must be drawn up into a syringe each time. I use "insulin syringes" for this purpose. In the USA the syringes can be purchased over the counter at any pharmacy. Is this the case in...
  9. Arthur Gil de Lamadrid

    Free "Buen Camino" audio book for students of Spanish

    This is perfect! Thanks so much.
  10. Arthur Gil de Lamadrid

    Looking for a Camino T-shirt online

    I found these on line. They have a selection of Camino t-shirts in cotton or in wicking tech material. I bought one of the latter for the Camino this summer. They come from the Netherlands and are of good quality, though a bit spendy. Here's the link to their page. It's in Dutch so you'll...
  11. Arthur Gil de Lamadrid

    Space Blanket: Noise?

    If you are thinking of camping as an alternative to an albergue stay, you may want to consider purchasing and caring a lightweight bivy or one person tent of which there are many on the market. The emergency bivies are really designed for emergencies where it is just you and the elements. They...
  12. Arthur Gil de Lamadrid

    Space Blanket: Noise?

    I have used a rescue bivy which is a bivy sack made of the same material. It is a moist sleep since all of the moisture discharged by your body during the night condenses on the inside of the mylar. You and any clothing you wear will be uncomfortably damp by morning. If you sleep very still...
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