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Avoid soup, it tends to leak through backpack fabric. A roasted chicken or leg of lamb with a decent bottle of Bierzo and a side salad would be my choice though I’d probably prefer it if someone else carried it. You’re looking at a 6hr walk...
Cerdo is pork… so I’m assuming this is some cured pork dish that I have not yet encountered.
There are two grocers in Campiello (last ones prior to the Hospitales). You can likely get it or something else that appeals.
I took a croissant and...
I'm not a fan for several reasons:
1) It is too short
2) In order to use it when it's raining you have to take off your pack, put it on, take it off, put it on as it starts/stops raining. With the ALTUS, it just hangs off my pack when don't need...
I have a sol bivvy which is great. I have wild camped with it comfortably on dry nights, so it is more than an emergency item, and is still in good nick after more than 6 years. Which makes me favourable to SOL gear.
So as for the SOL poncho on...
I admit it…I love my brilliant orange/red Decathlon poncho.
I suppose it’s’ our fate to always be muttering under our breath on Camino…whilst on trail “WHY did I bring XYZ, my pack would be so much lighter if I hadn’t “….then once in the...
It works well as emergency or one off rain gear. Providing you don’t mind looking like a giant shinny cheezzel.
Not sure I’d want to wear one day after day.
One of our most memorable, and when the Amigos Association of Navarra hosted us last May for a tour of their province, they took to us Javier, the monastery at Leyre, Sanguesa and Eunate, some of the top highlights of this camino, all in Navarra...
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