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  1. WalkingInGers

    When Temperatures Climb! Preventing Heat exhaustion

    It looks like your suggestion is completely logical. Buffs can also be used for filling in shoes, I.e., you have a size shoe but most people have one foot longer than the other or even wider. In such cases, to avoid feet rubbing against the sides of the shoe, can be used to wedge (is that the...
  2. WalkingInGers

    When Temperatures Climb! Preventing Heat exhaustion

    I read 65C in terms of your tolerance and went back and saw you mentioned Fahreheit…ouffff
  3. WalkingInGers

    LIVE from the Camino Conditions on Via de la Plata

    That is THE reasons that I am walking the VdLP with the Estrecho and Augusta. I like people but in limited…supply…reason why from Portomarin on the Camino Frances, it was a bit of a downer at the end and to finish like that.
  4. WalkingInGers

    When Temperatures Climb! Preventing Heat exhaustion

    What are the ways to deal with heat? Sun umbrellas, drinking lots of liquids, resting sufficiently AND?
  5. WalkingInGers

    When Temperatures Climb! Preventing Heat exhaustion

    I wanted to start a thread about dealing with HEAT…and I just saw this..
  6. WalkingInGers

    LIVE from the Camino Camino Sanabres 2024

    I can’t wait to start walking from Algeciras.
  7. WalkingInGers

    Wondering whether the Via de la Plata is our next camino ....?

    That is my idea...but to start further south of Seville....and NOT entering Gibraltar. How did you handle the heat?
  8. WalkingInGers

    Wondering whether the Via de la Plata is our next camino ....?

    I finished looking at your YouTube video. Nice work. The heat is an aspect that worries me.
  9. WalkingInGers

    Wondering whether the Via de la Plata is our next camino ....?

    I am leaving from Algeciras and walking the ESTRECHO to Cadiz, then the AUGUSTA to Sevilla, and then the Via de la Plata from Sevilla leaving on March 7, 2025. Will fly into Malaga, then take the bus to Algeciras, I understand the views are absolutely amazing from up there on the ESTRECHO.
  10. WalkingInGers

    Masks might be required by law in Hospitals and health centers next week

    I returned from walking the Camino Frances tired. I was obliged to go abroad a few days later, and met about 40 people in a conference. I am currently battling COVID. My GP told me that on Monday, she had met 6 people with COVID symptoms. The usual symptoms...so be careful and wear a bloody...
  11. WalkingInGers

    Via Augusta - Apr 2023

    I am planning to leave Algericas on March 9th.
  12. WalkingInGers

    Bus to cross Burgos

    When you walk around the airport, you arrive in a town called Villafria..you take the bus there into Burgos avoiding the long industrial avenue towards Burgos.
  13. WalkingInGers

    Crossing the Pyrenees from Oloron St. Marie, Bedous or Canfranc Estacion: Tips for Starting the Camino Aragones

    Take a look at this: https://www.virail.fr/bus-canfranc-oloron_sainte_marie
  14. WalkingInGers

    Seeking All Amazing VDLP Itinerary & Route Tips, Suggestions & Advice

    I might be incessantly worrying about this trek but the fact is that this is my second Camino, I will be 72 years old, and will not yet be in Cadiz or in Sevilla to begin the walk on the VdLP. I want to walk this and having completed this in Santiago, wish to do the SOKOKU walk in Japan. I...
  15. WalkingInGers

    Seeking All Amazing VDLP Itinerary & Route Tips, Suggestions & Advice

    I am looking at training here in Gers and in Haute Pyrenées during the winter with increasing kilometers hiking, however the terrain from ALGESIRAS to TARIFA is not only long but rugged in a climate region very different from here north of the Pyrenees. I would like to avoid to take a taxi or a...
  16. WalkingInGers

    Wise Debit Card on the Camino

    Something I learned this evening..thank you.
  17. WalkingInGers

    Wise Debit Card on the Camino

    I doubt that you are a moron however might I suggest that you look at your organization and go over all details including those small details? I know for fact that I would go mad realizing that I am not in some control over my walk in terms of backpack, passport, items brought along with me...
  18. WalkingInGers

    New handsfree umbrella holder

    It looks like an umbrella and this holder needs to be purchased before setting out in southern Spain. I found the holder but need LOL--the umbrella! and the color? Having been in Saudi Arabia, saw many people wearing black...and yet it seems that WHITE or pastel colors are preferable....ANY...
  19. WalkingInGers

    Is the Camino too crowded?

    I had no problems doing the Camino starting in Pamplona early April this year with .lots of people until Logrono…and then it panned out until Sarria where the crowds became intense.
  20. WalkingInGers

    Seeking All Amazing VDLP Itinerary & Route Tips, Suggestions & Advice

    I am currently looking at the blog that you have on Via de la Plata…the idea of warming up at the beginning of the Camino is excellent. Having decided to leave from Algeciras in March 2025, I may not have that luxury as the first stage is 37 kms, the reason being that there are few...

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