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  1. David

    Alternatives to walking if injured

    There is a secondhand bike shop in Burgos - La Estacion de Bicicletas (the bike station), Calle Rey Don Pedro, 56 - they do up old bikes too - they might have something? There is the Viking bike shop - VikingsBurgos, sales and repairs, has a nice address! C. Santiago Apóstol, 18. Bike shops...
  2. David

    Alternatives to walking if injured

    My first Camino from Moissac in France, back in 2005, my old knee gave out at Logrono and I bought the cheapest clunker of a bike that Decathlon had .. had a back rack put on it, bungeed my pack to that and carried on - was extraordinary how I could cycle but not walk. Some sections of Camino...
  3. David

    Alternatives to walking if injured

    Well that is pretty sad - sorry to hear that. I had to come home early last month as my old knee trauma flared badly again - can't do it any more so that was my last walking Camino (will return to do first aid with my car in future). All depends on how mobile you are really - rest usually means...
  4. David

    Few questions - advice

    Good questions. 1. I always carry a spork .. how to eat a tub of yoghurt or ice cream or tin of beans without a spoon? Plus my Swiss army knife - if you buy 'carry with you' food that needs cutting you need a knife. (mine has a corkscrew too). 2. I always carry a few clothes pegs as they seem to...
  5. David

    Walking with a messenger bag rather than a backpack

    Have you seen this Camino designed cross over bag by Shelltoucher? Looks like a very good design to me. https://shelltoucher.com/products/the-shell-toucher-all-weather-camino-sling-bag-your-best-friend-on-the-trail-unisex?_pos=2&_sid=3a05ec3af&_ss=r
  6. David

    Shampoo and Condition bars, scent preference

    Interesting results - apart from the fresh zingy clean scent of it, isn't citrus repellent to mosquitos too? I would love to know what the 'other' votes were for .. I see unscented in the posts ... but the rest? who knows. for me - I don't use shampoo but if I did it would be unscented for...
  7. David

    Surprised at our test results poncho vs jacket

    The whole trick with the Altus or Decathlon poncho - and sure, is actually a long raincoat with space for a rucksack - is in hot weather to not use the sleeves, which makes it into a cape (hands stay dry too) ... the Decathlon does have long armpit zips which makes that design better. As for...
  8. David

    To those who brought a tent: How do I keep the total weight down?

    I have seen quite a few tenters but most of them had dogs - so I guess that makes it easier to guarantee a bed each night as most refugios don't allow them but there would probably have been others that I didn't see or notice, they would have just looked like large rucksack carrying pilgrims...
  9. David

    To those who brought a tent: How do I keep the total weight down?

    It is a problem. Even a lightweight tent has weight but also, one is then into comfortable sleeping mat, possibly a better sleeping bag, a lamp for the evenings ... then the temptation to make your own hot drinks, so stove etc ... Maybe a way forward - work out by trial and error the maximum...
  10. David

    The Shell Toucher hat

    Good question. The tropical pith helmet, still used by police and military in many hot countries is a brilliant and time tested hot weather hat. No longer made of pith but now Japanese Toya straw, made rigid with resin. I wear one, and absolutely love it!! though I do get a lot of stares...
  11. David

    Two pilgrims injured in an attack by a cow

    Sad, worrying. In the UK there are literally thousands of cow attacks each year and some deaths - we have many footpaths that go over farmland - but people here still treat them as if they are just cute friendly animals - they aren't. I was attacked by a cow once and thrown onto a barbed wire...
  12. David

    Message from the Roncesvalles albergue - a difficult day.

    No, they are volunteer hospitaleros and must obey the rules set by the diocese.
  13. David

    If there are too many pilgrims, what is a pilgrim to do?

    I am not too sure what I think ... seems to me that the moment someone sits down at home and thinks about "which Camino next" because that one is prettier, etc, they may have already lost focus on what the pilgrimage is, or why it was ... a personal visit to the shrine in Santiago, the remains...
  14. David

    Message from the Roncesvalles albergue - a difficult day.

    The last time I was there, to do first aid, it was packed, with some of the Dutch hospitelaros outside organising taxis to take distraught pilgrims down route to other places, including hotels. I went inside and out the other side to see a coach appear with clean and energetic 'first day' tour...
  15. David

    Alert Theft at Roncesvalles

    Sad for the losses but what were those pilgrims thinking? They are in a foreign country surrounded by strangers, Crikey, lambs and wolves - we must be "as innocent as doves but as wise as serpents" out there! I never have my important items; money, cards, passport, credential, phone, etc...
  16. David

    getting sick

    A hard one but you did do your Sarria Camino. I think it is travelling elsewhere that can do this .. we have our own immunities, go to a different country with different strains and we can get hit. Also, since the smoking ban on aeroplanes they have become a perfect place to catch a new bug -...
  17. David

    Is this powered USB hub setup safe?

    Yes, I was being Anlgo-centric. Rather than the rings we have in the UK in Spain they wire independent radials to the main fuse board. So in theory each socket has their own cable and own fuse. Cabling is the same - 2.5mm - the fuse on the fuse board should be 16amps. 13amps drawn on a socket is...
  18. David

    25 km per day?

    True - here's a test - stand straight and relaxed with arms down the sides (no pack). Become aware of the front of the legs all the way down to the feet. Now bend forward at the waist - the waist only - and you can feel all the muscles and tendons and ligaments tightening up and going into...
  19. David

    Is this powered USB hub setup safe?

    Photos seem to show that his cpap machine is mains plug, which is separate from USB circuits in those adapters.
  20. David

    Is this powered USB hub setup safe?

    13 amps at 240 volts is indeed 3120w - my only defense here is I must have been tired when I wrote mine!! Will edit it.

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