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    Tracking apps/findpenguins/Relive/ or just simple iphone/google maps

    Those with an Apple Watch can track the distance each day with a ‘walk workout’ and then share (by messages or email) the map it generates at the end of each tracked workout. The nice thing about that option (for those with the hardware) is that you can choose very selectively, and the data you...
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    Canadian Pilgrims - Freedom Mobile Question

    Is it a flat fee like Roger's "Roam like home"? If so, it's $15 per day every time your phone connects to the infrasctructure. Far better to get a SIM or E-SIM.... anywhere from 15-40 euros for a month, depending on how many GB you want to buy.
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    Backpack is 2 kg too heavy TwT

    Misuse of general guidance for *children* whose spines are still developing. About 20 years ago, when their backpacks started to be laden with heavy textbooks *every day* from a Calvinist notion that more homework was better for the lazy little turds, orthopedists fairly literally weighed in...
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    Dressy comfortable town shoes!

    Try the Uin shoes that I posted... because they are unisex for the most part. A Japanese man I met in Santiago was so enamoured of my kitty pattern that he went off promptly to order for himself.
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    Dressy comfortable town shoes!

    They have more structure than Tom's -- proper arch support etc. The upper is not floppy... And there are leather options if you don't mine the extra heft.
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    Dressy comfortable town shoes!

    I love a gorgeous shoe. On caminos I have to compromise, even as I want to eat in nice places sometimes, and go to art galleries and so forth… There is a shoe company out of Toledo, Spain called Uin. They make really nice canvas slip-ons that are wide in the toe-box so great for us walkers… And...
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    Ultra lightweight backpack--worth it?

    ...is an Osprey Lumina and I think it’s a 40L capacity. I’ve never put more than my usual 9 pounds of actual gear into it for hiking, so I’ve never *hiked* with more than 10 pounds all in. My usual Osprey Kyte packs weigh about 14 lbs all in if I take the larger capacity one, and 12.5 pounds if...
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    Ultra lightweight backpack--worth it?

    Before you invest, take this caution. I thought as you do, and now I use my ultralight for nothing more than light use around town on errands. Worst investment of my sporting life.
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    Ultra lightweight backpack--worth it?

    ...removes 2.5 to 3 pounds of base weight as compared to my internal frame packs with all the zippers and pulls and extra padding. Weight is not the *only* feature in our comfort. I have facet arthritis in my sacral and lumbar spine, along with complete disk collapse in the lower lumbar and...
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    Bank verification with Spanish SIM

    Sorry yes, IMEI… I was tired.
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    Bank verification with Spanish SIM

    Hmmm. Good question that I honestly can’t remember the answer to, and a reminder that I need to call VISA before I leave this spring. I tend to be *cash* almost exclusively, but there’s the off thing I want that calls for the use of the CC and so I should check.
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    Bank verification with Spanish SIM

    Some banks (TD for example) also have an authenticator App. That app is not contacted by phone # but by IP address on your device, so it works even if you have only one SIM card with you. It's how I did things last year. Check with your bank.
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    I've walked the Camino in barefoot shoes

    Yes, but not in the size I need. Most of what I can find is size 9 women’s… Alas.
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    I've walked the Camino in barefoot shoes

    I met a young pilgrim from the Netherlands wearing these same shoes last spring on the Primitivo. I wonder if this is a "thing" starting out from NW Europe that may be catching on...? I was quite impressed by the daring, as I find that even my Alta zero-drop is right on the edge of "minimalist"...
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    Wearing glasses when it rains

    ...an Outdoor Research all-weather hat (great for sun or rain). Mine is a women's fit, and army green (cuz it was on sale). I think that whatever is *inside* the peak is probably nylon -- I washed it in Tineo after walking in all the way from La Espina/Espinal in torrential rain last May...
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    Wearing glasses when it rains

    Yep, hat with poncho, and other than that: I just accept that glasses are an imperfect solution. Carry a drying cloth...
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    Another question from Marska ... sorry all!

    they make men's patterns and unisex ones too. I have had tremendous fun spreading unexpected joy with the cat face pattern.
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    Tampons

    Unless you need to change on the trail and have no water supply. Using a pile of wipes rather defeats the purpose. There are many people for whom such products do not work anyway (due to internal anatomy positioning). I assume an adult person in search of menstrual products is aware of what...
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    Another question from Marska ... sorry all!

    I discovered UIN travel shoes (made in Toledo (Spain, not Ohio), sold on Amazon) last year and I recommend them so much! You can buy a silly pair, a pretty pair, a whimsical pair… whatever you like. They will take you to museums and restaurants and can handle many many kms of wandering around...
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    Laptop

    I have never yet had the liberty of going without a connection. I take an iPad Air — smallest size. It comes in around 450 G with an apple pencil (crucial for signing documents), and a 3rd party fold out keyboard. I slide it all into the sturdy ziplock container that Black Diamond uses to ship...

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