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I put my bar of dr Bronners in a mesh bag ( the type garlic comes in ) and used it for hair, showering and laundry. Scrubs nicely and doesn't slip. Put in in a zip lock bag to pack.
Don't burn your bridges. It is only 6 weeks, but you will be different whether you like it or not. Then you will come home and figure out what to do. You will have a place and job to come home to. That is more than some people have.
My favorites are the older books if you can find them. Walter Starkie, Jonathan Sumption. They are history scholars. Pilgrim Stories has a range of viewpoints-- I forget the author.
Yes! Jennifer Lash was her pen name and it is the book that set me on my path toward the Camino many years later. She began in northern France but she did not walk due to her health.
I have a friend who walked the Frances in the early 70s. He was just graduated from high school (in Spain) and he walked with his father. This was under Franco and people were very suspicious of them. They were questioned by the police more than once. There were no--or very few--pilgrim...
In Sept/Oct of 2013 we met Mike from Florida who was 92. He walked from St Jean to Santiago. One stage he took a bus because of an injury, but went back and walked that stage after he completed his pilgrimage.
I ran out of space on my American credential and picked up a second Spanish one in Leon at the municipal albergue. My husband got his French credential in St Jean and had plenty of space as they are bigger. They are all different and I enjoy looking at them now 2 years hence.
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