As others have suggested, I would recommend John Brierley's 'A pilgrim's guide to the Camino Ingles'. It often provided useful detours when road walking was likely to be aversive and was thorougly inspirational to boot! A wonderful guide.
Be aware that not every Decathlon store will have their full selection of ponchos in stock. You can use their website to see if the styles that you want are in stock at a particular store.
https://www.decathlon.es/es/
Yes, then you have time, price quality the decathlon poncho's are excellent. Yeah we enjoyed the Ingles, only a few too long asphalt stretches but that part of most Camino´s i guess, and it was over too soon..:)
Enjoy and buen Camino!
Sure, we found one in a chinese shop on the mainstreet of Ferrol.
They had 3 kinds but only 1 which would fit over the backpack, also not the bestvof quality but what to expect for 5 euro. Luckily my wife found her poncho in one of the backpack´s...
I assume you mean without pavement. In which case you’re correct, facing the traffic. Where safe to do so ! Sometimes on a blind curve there’s no room, so you have to swap over.
Let your common sense prevail!
There is no consensus on the Camino because pilgrims do whatever they want. The convention is to always walk facing oncoming traffic and not to jump until you can see the whites of the driver's eyes
Yesterday, Phil and I had a flat tire on the road to Seward after going through a long section of road construction. We were stopped in a paved pull off. We have roadside assistance, but no phone service there.
Our spare tire was stored in the...
My mantra when I came home last year was to “live my best life, wherever I was” and that has helped me navigate life off the Camino. I also initially sought out those who could understand what I had just experienced, and to not initially spend a...
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