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Stores do provide bags if you ask, but your own shopping bag is more environmentally friendly, and can do double duty as a bag to take your items into the shower area.
You don't need both. You don't need either, if it comes to that. Many people successfully walk without. I like to have an app with me, and I like to have both so that I can check each against the other. Sometimes the information is different...
I was walking on this part of the trail at around 8 am this morning. I noticed some strange materials along the path (some condoms, a pornographic picture, a pair of male underwear). The path is sometimes littered with this kind of stuff but...
Hi, I walked parallel with a 16 year old German student from a Montessori school a few years ago. He chose it as his assignment during school term, from St Jean Pied de Port to Burgos. He was totally alone, and I admired his commitment. We...
I walked the Camino Ingles with my son when he was 16. He could have done it alone easily. Judging by your post you have a good head on your shoulders; go for it.
Firstly, I am very happy about people of young age walking the Camino: It can be a lifechanger.
Secondly, you will make new friends: When I was 60, I walked for several days with a Dutch man, 22. We are still friends. Age is only a number.
I went to sea at 15yrs 9 months, still alive .... go for it .... just remember the NT - "be as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove" -
lots of young folk out there, though probably not as young as you - but! you will meet people of all...
Hi all! So basically what the title says. I'm 16, I have a month off once my summer exams finish, and I just have a pull to get away from life and do something a little crazy. Not sure how to explain it. But I love the outdoors, and I think it'd...
I have been using a shampoo bar the last 3 caminos and I also just ordered two more from @JillGat here on the forum who makes them. I don't like them as much as my liquid shampoo, but they are lighter and I can wash my whole person with it rather...
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