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You git your answer to Q2 above.
Re:Q1 the rule of the thumb is to book for first 5 days or so, almost no matter when one walks, if anything for the sake of one's mind.
Good luck and Buen Camino
There's another thread elsewhere on the forums called "The Long and Winding Road" where people are posting their landscape photos of the long and winding road that we walk. I thought I'd start another photo thread of my own for a different kind...
Headphones isolate you from your surroundings, so yes I wear them in the albergues as I try to get to sleep, but when I am walking I want to be aware of and to appreciate my surroundings.
I think there has been a vicious circle of growing dependence on modern technologies. When I walked my first Camino no one used mobile phones or the internet because for all practical purposes they did not exist. The guidebooks often did not even...
Most folks use zip lock bags. They are lightweight, cheap, replaceable, and see through. I recommend the storage grade thickness.
As you will not be fording rivers you do not need full-on dry bags. Also, if you use a pack cover - preferably in...
Logrono, or Logrono, or perhaps Logrono (please don't tell anyone that really I would head to Haro even if I had to get a Taxi and spend all my time in the....)
It was called "Un Paso Limpio," it was sponsored by the Amigos de Astorga and the Japanese Association of Pilgrims, with funding from Correos. Yellow plastic bags were distributed along the Frances route, and pilgrims could take them, fill them...
In that case, walking the meseta would be a good choice, in my opinion.
Wide open landscape, endless sky, easy walking. Maybe not that much to see in terms of "sightseeing" and no spectacular mountains. But in spring it is very green and...
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