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  1. Keith H

    LIVE from the Camino BP on the Catalán, June-July 2024

    You’re really making me want to go. I haven’t let myself visit yet as I want to walk there the first time. And I won’t let myself walk there until I start from Port de Selva and do the full distance.
  2. Keith H

    LIVE from the Camino BP on the Catalán, June-July 2024

    Welcome to Barcelona! That’s a decent cafe with locations across the city. Be glad you weren’t here yesterday. It was HOT!
  3. Keith H

    LIVE from the Camino BP on the Catalán, June-July 2024

    And if you like art and haven’t already done it the Picasso museum in El Born is very cool
  4. Keith H

    LIVE from the Camino BP on the Catalán, June-July 2024

    If it gets north of 30° I’m going to be a very sad boy. As you get further inland it becomes a possibility Dofi is a great wine but that’s crazy pricing! I’d have leant toward the bottle of Bollinger if I was going to splash out as at least that is less than double the store price!
  5. Keith H

    LIVE from the Camino BP on the Catalán, June-July 2024

    You’ll find the way no problem I’m sure! The weather is cooler than usual for this time of year so you may have timed it perfectly! We had rain yesterday but it looks like it’s clear sailing for the rest of the week.
  6. Keith H

    LIVE from the Camino BP on the Catalán, June-July 2024

    The Amics are a pretty passionate group! Did you walk from Port de la Selva?
  7. Keith H

    LIVE from the Camino BP on the Catalán, June-July 2024

    The one through the hills has decent marking and is definitely the nicer of the two in my opinion. I haven’t walked Barcelona to Monserrat but as I was doing research last year it was hard to find decent accommodation closer to Monserrat. I did walk Rubí to the old town of Barcelona...
  8. Keith H

    LIVE from the Camino BP on the Catalán, June-July 2024

    If you want to meet up for a beverage or if you want some tips on places to eat before you set off let me know. I could also show you the start of the Camino if you’re wanting to take the route over the Collserolla hills behind Barcelona instead of the highway path. It’s not overly tricky but it...
  9. Keith H

    Silk liners can't take hot dryer? What do if bed bugs?

    This is 100% the right answer. I ran my silk liner through a hot drier as often as possible along with my ‘sleep set’ (usually every day) with no issues. With my backpack in a plastic bag and sealed and everything else in closed dry bags the only thing that could get bed bugs was the stuff I was...
  10. Keith H

    Cafe con leche different this year?

    The area around Andalusia has an inclination toward stronger coffee due to the Moorish influence.
  11. Keith H

    Raising the Roof on Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

    I was in Paris a couple weeks ago for the first time. I’ve been to France several times but never to Paris. The last time I was in France it was when she was burning. I was there on a work trip and saw the news and informed the elderly French man making my pizza about it. He and I watched the...
  12. Keith H

    Where is the "drinking pilgrim" statue?

  13. Keith H

    Bourbon and cigars

    Cigars are easy. Bourbon will be available in larger cities but it’s not that popular here as locals tend to drink local. It’s not that easy to get French wine for example.
  14. Keith H

    Bourbon and cigars

    Brandy was going to be my suggestion too to mix it up a bit. I met an Aussie who had brandy as his Camino vice and I have to say the couple I had with him were decent
  15. Keith H

    …and my shoes are sold out (Altra help/recommendations!)

    Yep! They’ve reworked the Timp to be closer to the previous Mont Blanc so that may be a decent option. I’ll definitely try a pair on when I can. I did a side by side of the Mont Blanc and the last Timp and the Mont Blanc was a bit more comfortable
  16. Keith H

    …and my shoes are sold out (Altra help/recommendations!)

    Thanks!! They’re completely changing the Mont Blancs this year so I may try to pick up a couple pairs of the current model since they did so well.
  17. Keith H

    …and my shoes are sold out (Altra help/recommendations!)

    I used these on my Camino and they held up beautifully for the whole Frances and would have been able to keep going had I not put them in a hot dryer when they were a bit damp and they shrank juuuust a bit sadly. I wear Lone Peaks daily and I really appreciated the extra cushion on the Mont...
  18. Keith H

    Competition for the best hamburger in Spain

    I’m really happy/alarmed to say Catalonia’s 3rd best burger is just across the road from my apartment in Barcelona. It’s the first place I’ve been where they make the buns, pickles, mayo and mustard all in house. Incredibly delicious.
  19. Keith H

    A Camino "dry run" - what I learned from the Milford Track

    The Great Walks are far harder in general than the Camino Frances. But it’s the day-after-day-after-day that gets you on the Camino. Things get stronger whilst others come out of nowhere. I think your gear shakedown was a great idea as was the mental prep. You know how the Camino is similar to...
  20. Keith H

    Winter Camino blog

    I saw that photo and thought ‘he’s not quite there yet’. I’d imagine the blog was set up before he left. How the image got there is a bit weird.

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