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    Transporting Hard Shell Bike Boxes on the Camino de Santiago

    Correos has a service that allows you to forward luggage to their Santiago office where they're kept for a fee. This is the webpage explaining how https://www.elcaminoconcorreos.com/es/envio-maletas Alternatively you could contact Casa Ivar ( @ivar ) and check If Ivar would hold it for you
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    Phones, Sim Cards, Choices and Questions, Oh, So Many Questions!

    If you're worried about emergencies, remember the number is 112. You do not even need a functioning phone subscription It can be dialed when the phone is locked, and if memory serves it sends your GPS coordinates encoded (derived from network and phone information) in the signal (in more modern...
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    First aid kit recommendations for Via de La Plata

    I think any off the shelf hikers first aid kit will do. I'dd add 1/a selection of compeed ( blister plasters) 2/ antiseptic spray 3/ immodium 4/ paracetamol/ibuprofen or some other over the counter painmeds. For emergencies and serious injurious make sure your mobile phone has enough charge...
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    Voie d'Arles

    AlpineQuest is a great app and worth the few $$$ for the full version. You'll find a map layer with every single hiking/camino trail in Spain you can superimpose on googlemaps along with a topographical map. I couldn't get lost if I tried
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    Parador lunch in winter?

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/parador-resumes-the-free-meal-tradition.77754/%3famp=1
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    Why so few pilgrims on the Via de la Plata? Article from local website.

    The VdlP is THE cycling camino. To walk it, it requires a level of self confidence, resilience and stamina you don't need on the CF or the Norte. The long distances between towns can be daunting.
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    How often do you take a break?

    On the hour every hour. Swap my socks around as part of blister prevention care
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    Biking Options for People Who Mostly Want to Walk?

    If you're short on time or get behind, a bus ride will make up a few stages in a couple of hours. It's your camino, only you have to be happy with it, don't sweat the small stuff
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    Courier service for transport of medication from SJPDP

    What medication is it? You need to find the name of the medication and then find out what the commercial/trade name is in Spain. (If you're referring to Fasenra, it is dispensed in Spain from what I could find out, but do confirm it with your treating physician) Once you have confirmed the...
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    Sharing a menu del dia/ becoming a trend/ Santiago de Compostela

    I do, and I have, and often bread still appeared on the bill. It isn't extortionate but it's still annoying
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    Sharing a menu del dia/ becoming a trend/ Santiago de Compostela

    WARNING : RANT FOLLOWING!!! If that law applies to restaurants, I really wish restaurants I go to while in Spain would stop bringing me unasked for bread that I leave untouched and then have the gall to bill me for it. It always ends up as an argument when the bill comes up. I know it's only a...
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    Sharing a menu del dia/ becoming a trend/ Santiago de Compostela

    If you're agreeable to sharing, I found on more than one occasion that 2 people ordering a la carte 1 large salad or vegetable dish and 1 meat or fish dish is similar in cost to a menu del dia each but you end up with more and better food.
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    Respectful donativo amounts in 2024

    I suppose I'm an outlier as I view this transactionally depending on what's on offer in the donativo, while understanding that I'm enjoying what was gifted by someone else and my gift will support someone tomorrow. So... 15 to 20 for bed and shower 15 to 20 for a hot meal, along with me...
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    Keeping biologics (Amgevita/Humira) cold

    Jammed between 2 ice packs in a thermal pouch. Roll your sleeping bag or quilt around it. I'd be surprised if it wouldn't keep at temperature. Something worth trying with a thermometer before.
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    Listening to Music/Audiobooks/Podcasts while making the pilgrimage?

    Each to their own. I'd suggest you get bone conducting headphones for use while you walk. They'll enable to be aware of what is going on around you. The number of people I caught with while cycling who nearly have a heart attack when they finally realise I'm 1m behind them - despite ringing the...
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