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    Christmas/winter Camino 2019

    Hello Gumba Interesting contribution you make: I too prefer the Camino in winter. "2. I know it varies, I just want to get a bit of an idea as to how far the snow will extend over the Camino during Dec/Jan." Impossible to predict. The three mountainous sections: the Pyrrenees, the section...
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    Pilgrims Office of SJPP

    Dear Monasp, I agree! I started my first Camino in January this year and, like every other 'camino virgin', I was excited but also apprehensive. I stepped into the Camino office on that cold and rainy Thursday morning, and was greeted by the smiling faces and quiet competence of the two...
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    Logrono to Burgos in January

    I have now ammended my packing list to take account of your ideas. Could I ask whether you also packed a mini travel cooker or electric immersion heater for those time when albergues do not have cooking facilities?
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    Logrono to Burgos in January

    What an excellent posting. Thank you so much. I am getting myself ready to walk the camino in January and am so grateful to you for this information. I am now considering if I can afford (weight-wise) to also take a small electric immersion heater or even a mini travel electric cooker.
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    St Jean accommodation in January

    Hello everyone, some 9 weeks to go before I set off on the camino frances. When I arrive in St Jean Pied-de-Port I shall probably be exhausted from all the train and plane traveling so I was thinking about booking a room at an hotel / bed-and-breakfast for that night. Can anyone recommend...
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    Waterproofing

    That's interesting. Thank you. Perhaps I am in a small minority here but as a vegetarian I wouldn't be able to follow your advice to wear leather - which is a pity. However, if I keep up my present training walk regime, the skin on my own feet may well have turned to leather itself; in which...
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    Waterproofing

    OK that sounds like good advice. The information I was given is that the waterproofness of any boot will deteriorate over time; it's just a matter of whether relatively new boots will last for 5 weeks, which in turn is a function of the weather and ground surfaces encountered as well as, in my...
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    Waterproofing

    Just a word of caution to potential pilgrims from UK, sealskinz socks cost £20-25
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    Waterproofing

    Thank you everyone for your information and advice. I am particularly paranoid about getting wet feet as a while ago, wearing cheap boots on a training walk, my feet got wet and not being able to change into dry socks etc I had to continue walking for another 3 hours. As a result, the skin...
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    Waterproofing

    Thank you for that. And there are certain British newspaper titles that are indeed only fit for stuffing into boots. (!)
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    Waterproofing

    Hello everyone, here is my first forum post. I intend to walk my first Camino Frances in January 2018. I bought a pair of North Face hiking shoes/boots which are said to be waterproof. When I told the assistant about the nature of the walk - 4 to 5 weeks, over variable terrain, in winter, his...
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