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  1. Tim and Paula

    First Camino from SJPP on September 13th!

    Hi Betty! My wife Paula and I are also walking the Camino Frances beginning September 5 in Pamplona. We'll keep and eye and ear out for you and hope to see you there. Buen Camino! Tim
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    Mosquitos on Camino Frances in Sept/Oct?

    Hi Rick--we live in Tropical Pacific Mexico and the local mozzies seems to want nothing to do with Picaradin. Northeastern versions and the ones we used to encounter in the Sierras might be more resistant to it. From all the posts, it sounds as is mosquitos won't be much of an issue and, if...
  3. Tim and Paula

    Walking on Diamond-Hard surfaces--Camino Question

    Hola--would love to meet a fellow pilgrim. When and where? We have a car and are in Nuevo Vallarta. Tim
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    Walking on Diamond-Hard surfaces--Camino Question

    Wow, thanks for all the input. We're using Merrell Moab 2 waterproof boots, decided on after a marathon session with the folks at REI. Paula's are high, mine are low. We've been training for more than a year and are up to a 6 mile loop. The boots are nicely broken in(3 months, 4 times per...
  5. Tim and Paula

    Walking on Diamond-Hard surfaces--Camino Question

    Hola--a question for those with more information than we: approximately how much of the Camino Frances consists of concrete so hard it makes knees cry and feet shriek in agony? The reason I ask is that miles 3 and 4 of our 6 mile training loop are on reinforced concrete that is smooth and...
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    Post office in Roncevalles?

    Thanks, Rick! Wow--lots of helpful suggestions. I think our best plan is to send it from Pamplona on our way to Roncevalles, time to kill, good opportunity. Then we can enjoy Pamplona a few days later when we're headed in the right direction. We've got the post office located and will stop...
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    Mosquitos on Camino Frances in Sept/Oct?

    Thanks for all the responses. I don't react badly to bites, normally. But Paula and I have spent the last 13 years in the tropics where our little flying "friends" are a fact of life and got a very mild case of Dengue a few years ago in Guatemala. So I take a little extra care so that I don't...
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    Mosquitos on Camino Frances in Sept/Oct?

    Probably another dumb question but are there Mosquitos present on the Camino Frances September or October? On this mornings training walk here in tropical Mexico, we encountered quite a few of these flying delights, which had us wondering if we'd be seeing them again this fall. More my issue...
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    Post office in Roncevalles?

    Hi Rick. Thanks again for the info. Sounds like Pamplona will be a business stop, at least on the way to Roncevalles. We're both getting excited about the Camino and if everyone is as helpful and kind as yourself, we're in for a lovely time. Thanks again, Tim and Paula Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
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    Post office in Roncevalles?

    Hi Rick. Train from Barcelona to Pamplona, then bus to Roncevalles. I suppose we could mail the suitcase from Pamplona, since there's a two or three hour wait from Train arrival to Bus departure. If Roncevalles is too small for a post office and the post office in SJPDP closes before we'd be...
  11. Tim and Paula

    Post office in Roncevalles?

    Wow--that was fast! Thanks for the suggestion. Buen Camino! Tim
  12. Tim and Paula

    Post office in Roncevalles?

    Hello--It's my first time on this forum so please forgive me if I screw up. My wife and I are walking the Camino Frances beginning early September and would like to mail a suitcase to Santiago from Roncevalles. Does anyone know if there is a post office in Roncevalles(our starting point) and...

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