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  1. Mark Greenwood

    Crohn’s Disease

    Just copy and print on card if you can't print on plastic. If you feel the need you can get it laminated. Buen Camino
  2. Mark Greenwood

    Pacer poles / York Nordics?

    You can buy just the top section for Pacers and convert your existing ones or cheaper ones, for me it's the grip that makes the difference. Plus they come in different sizes for different diameter poles. I screwed up and ordered the wrong diameter and they kindly sent me the correct ones...
  3. Mark Greenwood

    Camino Francés April 2024

    Not as much as I should be, a couple of 23k hikes over hills with a light pack. Need to do more, illness stopped me, but I'm OK now. 😊
  4. Mark Greenwood

    Camino Francés April 2024

    So true, it starts the day you commit to doing it! I wrote more or less the same thing in my Camino journal..😊
  5. Mark Greenwood

    Memorable Places

    Thankyou!
  6. Mark Greenwood

    Memorable Places

    Hello and appologies if this has already been asked. I've got 35 days until I leave home on route via Paris to SJPD. My bags packed and if I check it anymore I'll go mad! Lol I've read, like all of you, everything I can about the Camino Frances and wondered if any of you experienced pilgrims...
  7. Mark Greenwood

    RIP Maria Nieves Panizo Benevente - Rabanal del Camino

    RIP.🙏
  8. Mark Greenwood

    What Size Water Bottle/s

    Thank you everybody, great advice.
  9. Mark Greenwood

    What Size Water Bottle/s

    Hi just a few weeks to go now, and my bag is more or less packed. I've decided not to take a water bladder, but to use bottles instead. So my question is, bearing in mind that a litre of water is a kilogram in weight plus its container. How much water do you experienced pilgrims carry and in...
  10. Mark Greenwood

    Who's counting…

    55 days! 😊
  11. Mark Greenwood

    Who's counting…

    55 days here to.
  12. Mark Greenwood

    Expected weather beginning March 27

    You need to ask the locals at the time, having studied metorology and watching daily forecasts for many years, its apparent that even the Metorologists cant get it right everytime, even the day before, and using years of data and satellite tracking/mapping. So be prepared and take advice as...
  13. Mark Greenwood

    CDG to Montparnasse - A Question of Timing

    Same as me. Buen Camino
  14. Mark Greenwood

    CDG to Montparnasse - A Question of Timing

    Im just coming over from the uK by train and I will stay overnite close to the Montparnasse Station. If it helps the hotel im staying at is Hotel Le Fabe curtessy of Booking.Com and is a 15 minute walk to the Station. Buen Camino
  15. Mark Greenwood

    Hiking Jacket for an April Camino

    Thank you. Have since purchase an Altus in orange and Rab Mustag Gaitors. So fingers crossed.👍
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