We used superglue to attach ours to our Osprey packs (different models than yours but same fabric). Four years layer they're still there. No apparent effect on the packs.
My wife and I finished the Camino de Gran Canaria yesterday (Dec 13, 2021). This is to give some impressions and information from our experience. There are other good posts offering perspectives on this Camino, including a recent one by Steven Baggs (Steve you have a very understanding wife!)...
My wife and I both use Arcteryx Mantis I fanny packs. Best piece of kit we have. Perfect to carry passport, credencial, phone, wallet, lipgloss, pens, whatever bits you like to have at hand.
We're travelling long-term so needed to ship suitcases from Madrid to await us in Santiago. Here's a few things we learned for next time.
1. Madrid airport post office is temporarily closed. We had to go to a small post office near our hotel. They had never shipped pilgrims' luggage before and...
There are other threads on the new Compostela system. I didn't find one that explained it simply and clearly. (If there is one I apologize. Feel free to delete this thread Ivar.) I will try explain so even dummies like me can understand.
1. There is a placard with a QR code outside the front...
It's not a real rigorous process. When they issue the compostela (at least when we got ours today) they just want your starting place and date filled in and your name spelled correctly.
We started the Camino del Norte on August 5th. We were spoiled to mostly have the trails to ourselves for 30 days. There were batches of pilgrims at certain points. Many Spaniards walked for a week or 10 days from Bilbao, Santander or Gijon. In general though there were not that many walking...
Accommodations are tight right now but by mid-September most Spaniards will be back to work so should be a lot better. Many albergues open (but less capacity) but some, especially in out-of-the-way towns, are closed.
Relatively few pilgrims, mostly Spanish.
Some bars/restaurants in smaller...
We‘re six days into the Norte today. Getting stamps has been a bit of a hassle. Many churches have limited opening times because of covid or have put the stamps away because of fear of transmission. Hotels and bars are kind of hit-and-miss but so far we’ve had no trouble getting at least one...
We’ve finished day 2 on the Norte. Saw very few pilgrims in Irun. Walked with one pilgrim to San Sebastian and saw only two others. Sat for an hour having leisurely lunch at Pasaia. Didn’t see a single pilgrim walk by to the ferry.
Saw a few more pilgrims today from San Sebastian. Maybe 15...
Our Air Canada flight said the same thing last week, ie we could check-in online 24 hours in advance. We did. However, no boarding passes were provided. Only a “confirmation of check-in”. Boarding passes were only issued at the counter after inspection of our Spanish entry code and proof of...
We are in Irun today. We had spare time so walked over to Henday. French police are stopping traffic heading into France checking for Covid compliance. They did not stop pedestrians. The Spanish were not doing any checks of people heading into Spain. Vehicles and pedestrians passed freely. Don’t...
For the information of Canadian travellers, we flew Vancouver to Madrid via Munich on July 31 with no issues.
As of now Spain considers Canada a low risk country so no vaccine or PCR test was required. HOWEVER, even to transit through Germany we had to have proof of vaccination or negative PCR...
To those currently on the Camino, is everything still pretty much cash-based or have merchants and albergues switched to non-cash transactions because of Covid?
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