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It sure does, and is best ignored. The "Camino Experience" brigade, particularly young North Americans, seemed to me to be very intolerant of older walkers, or those pushed for time, and the fitter walkers can be very competitive in distance covered/days taken. To some, it's almost a race...
I walked the Camino de Frances from Roncesvalles in 2015, when I was 70. I had an artificial knee in one leg, was missing an eye, had bad lungs from smoking and bad feet from alcohol abuse. It was the greatest experience of my life and I worried a lot, like you, before doing it. You need not...
For me it was a second, small, folding rucksack....so when you go round town or out to eat you can carry your valuables and jacket in comfort without dragging the backpack - on the trail fold it and pack it, or use it as a liner for otems in the pack, or wear it on your front to balance load and...
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