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    Carrying bikes on aircraft.

    carrying bikes on aircraft I travelled with BA to Bilbao. They did not require me to put my bike in a bag so I just turned pedals and wrapped it, etc. However, the bike arrived damaged. I had no difficulty getting it onto the cheap airport bus into Bilbao centre - I was staying at the youth...
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    Excellent site for maps and albuergue info

    excellent site for maps This really is a great site! I put in Camino Santiago Consumer into Google, found the website plus the option to translate the page. It's never a perfect translation but it's better than nothing! Barbara
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    advice on booking accomodation/sleeping bags

    booking accomodation You can't book accomodation in the albergues. It's whoever arrives first gets a bed - not necessarily blankets, so yes, you need a sleeping bag - the next lot who arrive get a mattress on the floor - somewhere in the building - the last lot may get the floor, so you're...
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    Blisters

    Thank you to all of you for your advice. perhaps it is a case of slightly wider boots or thinner socks as the blisters always occur on my little toes. If it becomes necessary to apply a plaster, should i remove the plaster every day when not actually walking and replace with a new one? Barbara
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    Blisters

    Hi everyone, I've just come back from my second stint on the route from Arles. This time I started at Lunas and walked to beyond Revel. I only walked 10 days but I've had to give up earlier than planned because of blisters. I invite advice. I do appeciate that I need to cut down on the...
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    le puy route

    I have only cycled the route but am very doubtful about the recommendation for La Ferme du Barry as when I stayed there in 2003, the dorm was full of flies, the toilet was filthy and there was no paper, the light bulb "went" in the kitchen. but the worst thing was that my bed COLLAPSED as I lay...
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    Going to AGM alone

    This is only the second AGM I've attended and this time no-one I know will be there. Is anyone else going alone who would like some company? Barbara
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    Arles route and introduction

    Hi, I've cycled, with a friend from Le Puy to St Jean Pied de Port and on my own to Santiago, and now i want to be a "proper" pilgrim and walk! Last spring I walked, partly with a friend, from Arles to Joncels and this April i hope to continue to Castres. I am 60 so my maximum each day is 15...
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    bonjour- walking east - castres to st. gilles - mid sept.

    Bonjour Eleone, Last spring i walked from Arles, via St gilles, to Joncels, most of the time with a friend. i am 60 so my maximum each day was 15 miles. The paradise pilgrim place to stay in joncels is Villa Issiastes. I hope to start from there this spring and walk to Castres. I stayed with...

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