I have had bed bug problems but only at night. What I did to kill the little buggers is to soak my sheets with a 20ml per litre of Peremethin which you can buy from any gardening store.
Leave the sheet out to dry and you have a 'bed bug killer' sheet on which you can sleep free of the little...
What I have done in the past is to wear the clothes I will be using the next day rather than to carry a sleeping bag. It also means I can wake up, put my boots on and start walking.
I am a 73 year old male who has walked the Frances 6 times and I plan to do it again in late April this year as long as Covid is under control.
I do understand your desire to NOT jeapordise your trip however if you do find some of the walking too difficult you can always bypass the hard parts...
You may get a little bored because your legs are rather short which means a lot of sitting around unless you love exploring the towns and close vicinity of where you decide to sleep the night.
You can buy a small hand-held translator that you speak English into and it playback in Spanish and vis-a-versa. Assuming you would want something like this.
It's always worked for me.
I used to wake up in the night with horrifying muscle cramps with a lot of associated pain in one of my calves. Only ever one calve or the other.
I now take a small dose every couple of weeks and I no longer get the cramps. It could, of cause have been for some other...
Muscle cramps can be caused my a lack of Magnesium. A small amount of Epsom Salts with water will fix it but it tastes awful. Maybe buy some magnesium tables from a pharmacy and from St jean Pied de Port to Santiago you shouldn't need more that 5 or 6 of the tablets for the whole trek.
The first 'Camino Frances' that I did took 5 days. However, I did NO TRAINING at all before I went.
The first two days were quite hard but after that it got easier and easier. The last stretch from Palas de Rei was easy.
If you have to leave something out I would suggest you drop the Meseta. It can be the same every day and isn't as interesting I believe as much of the rest.
I would also skip the section from Roncesvalles down to Zubiri. The last section is very steep and there is a lot of sharp broken black...
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