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When I was a boy, chargers were very simple devices. I could make one without much difficulty. Today a ludicrous thought.
But now, briefly, they are not. The lightest weight should not be the priority (see FIRE below)
In the last few years they have become quite exotic with an extensive...
Notwithstanding your admiral tack record on this forum for excellent contributions, I think there can be more nuance to this choice. Minimal weight is better considered against function in all its parameters, and in addition even aesthetics if that is important.
When I went down the rabbit...
They are very good, not similar to any other type I have seen, and provide excellent value IMO.
If you would like to buy them, then not buying them is false economy in the context of all the expenses of doing a Camino.
The potency is slow acting and increases after you finish and get home.
So the thought of giving up during the journey, for that reason, is likely to be a premature act.
An alternative for sharing is
https://trackmytour.com/
which you use as an App on your phone
You can add all the places (with draft dates and draft locations) on a map before you leave (on your computer or phone) )and share it (the website) with all your family and friends.
On arrival at every...
If you include Portugal : from Almeria >>> Salamanca > Torres > Braga > de Geira > SdC covers a few more kms, which includes a lot of enjoyable solitude if that is your thing.
This could be pinned at the top of many threads.
If you haven't done a lot ofwalking, sadly, you're out of luck and won't know until you have tried various things over a few thousand kms. Just think that a first Camino is a learning experience for many dimensions of your life, and for most of...
On a very small sample, I note #3 has no votes. I wonder what else I might understand about people on this Forum and their biases, or other ... , that influences their advice or comments here.
Of course we all have our preferences and our personal sense of "busy or crowded".
After walking the Mozarabe from Almeria last year, I found then joining the VDLP relatively quite busy and social, and easily walkable without carrying food (although I did take a bus from Caceres to Canaveral -...
Walking a Camino in Spain may be one of the better ways to nudge your body back into a normal routine.
Start walking before sunrise and let your eyes bathe in the early morning light without sunglasses. Finish walking before lunchtime finishes and make that the major meal, followed by a...
I don't think I was giving advice to that effect, but rather for him to question whether it is in his best interest to undertake a lot of walking given he has some form of bodily impairment.
This is different from the normal walking everyone's doctors recommend, and I am not familiar with...
It is often remarked, explicitly or implicitly, on this forum that walking a Camino can have an addictive-like nature, noting that some addictions are pleasurable whilst others can be harmful. (Not an academic discourse on addiction theory.)
Have you given much thought that walking a Camino of...
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