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    Simple Excel-based dates, days and walking hours calculator

    I developed a simple Excel-based calculator to help me work out: days required and end date for a camino, given the start date, total distance to be walked, average walking speed and hours per day, and number of non-walking days walking hours per day, given start and end dates, total distance...
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    Sleeping bag liner

    I used a Sea to Summit silk liner (see gear list here). No issues with it and it dries quickly after a wash.
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    The Most Inspiring Travel Quotes

    'The Essential Tao of Travel', from Paul Theroux's The Tao of Travel: 1. Leave home 2. Go alone 3. Travel light 4. Bring a map 5. Go by land 6. Walk across a national frontier 7. Keep a journal 8. Read a novel that has no relation to the place you’re in 9. If you must bring a cell phone, avoid...
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    The Camino Francés in Spring

    Hi Mike, the site is based on a free Wordpress theme called Parament. (That theme is no longer available for new blogs, but there are plenty of other free themes available.) The tables on the Daily Walk Summary and Gear List pages are basic HTML tables I added to standard Parament pages. The...
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    Realistic timeframe

    Well kinnear, the length of string does rather depend on a few variables e.g. how far in total you're walking, how fast and for how long you walk each day, etc! (I tried to upload a simple end-date calculator for you, but it's an Excel file and the forum software doesn't allow uploads of that...
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    Cyber Cafes along the Camino

    A search on this forum (on 'internet cafes camino') returns a few threads, with the most recent being from earlier this year - Has the tide of technological advance washed away internet cafes on the Camino?
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    So what’s special about the Camino?

    These are heart-felt responses. They’re thought-provoking. I read them as they came in and have just gone through them again. I’ve summarized below some of the key points from them, partly to acknowledge the contributors, but also to help me make some coherent sense of them. Mike characterizes...
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    So what’s special about the Camino?

    Thanks Marion for the translation.
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    So what’s special about the Camino?

    I remain intrigued by my Camino experience. What made it so special? Why was it so profoundly rewarding? I have a reasonable awareness of how I was physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually in the lead up to, during and following the walk, but less clear is an understanding of the ways...
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    Shoes

    I walked in shorts, Bob, and my raincoat pretty well covered them. The bottoms would get a bit wet sometimes, but they dried quickly once the rain had passed or in the albergues. I really only took the overtrousers in case I encountered inclement weather, particularly in the Pyrenees. As it...
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    Shoes

    Bob, I took Merrell Trail Glove lightweight 'barefoot running' shoes (0.4 kg) for use in the albergues, walking around the villages at the end of the day, etc. Photo on my gear list here (see also the in-hindsight comment about flip-flops).
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    Splitting the First Day

    Hi Bob, I did SJPdP-Roncesvalles via the Napoleon route in one day in May this year. It was a beautiful day - clear blue skies, mild temperatures, no wind - and took me around 6 1/2 hours to cover the 24 km (notes, photos and link to map here). To say I got lucky with the weather would be an...
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    How many liters you need for a backpack for 8 kg

    The overall volume (length x width x height) of the gear you want to take will give you an indication of the size of pack required. I took a 36 L Deuter Futura Pro 36 for gear (list here) that measured without the sleeping bag 45 x 30 x 23 cm = 31,050 cubic centimetres = 31 L, when laid out...
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    Post Camino Blues

    Re-entering the home orbit is always hard. Here’s a list of some of what I do: Write. Journal my experience to capture its essence and help crystallise its meaning. Communicate. Engage with others (and especially with friends made on the Camino) to share experiences, memories, thoughts. Keep...
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    The Camino Francés in Spring

    Hi, I walked the Camino Francés in May-June this year. A genuinely wonderful and unforgettable experience. I posted photos and comments each day of the Camino to diariocamino.wordpress.com. The site now also includes a daily walk summary, a zoomable route map and a list of the gear I took...
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