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Memories flooding in. Carefully selecting who would get which postcard, laboriously writing them out and taking them to Correos to send. Knowing I was not going to see a reply until the Camino was over. Internet cafes and widespread use of email...
This was my husband. So many thanks to all of my fellow pilgrims who stopped to help and to pray and to translate for me.
He was doing what he loved.
Thank you for the news article link.
Someday, I will write my Memoirs "Confessions of a Gear Junkie". I am thinking about how many sleeping bags and liners we have at home. I think right now for just the two of us we have 3 liner bags, one poncho liner and a poncho liner bag with a...
Thank you all for your quick replies, and the reassurance that it would be okay to try (I’m the person who somehow set a Jetboil on fire while camping, so I can never be too careful)
In any case, this must be a bit of Camino magic because I just...
OK, call me old fashioned. I have done a fair amount of mountain climbing and backpacking. While the Camino is not an isolated trail/road-system, there is always the potential for someone to get lost, hurt, or caught out in very bad weather...
I found no place to buy canisters on Camino Madrid and Camino Primitivo, on Frances found one specialist trekking shop who sold those. Next time I take my Trangia.
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