• For 2024 Pilgrims: €50,- donation = 1 year with no ads on the forum + 90% off any 2024 Guide. More here.
    (Discount code sent to you by Private Message after your donation)

Search 69,459 Camino Questions

Advanced search…

Search results for query: *

  1. Texas Walker

    Should I bring my own Mercado bag?

    Looks a lot like the (leftover) poncho bags in my stash, though I am sure those are smaller. I am bringing a mesh bag as 1) plane bag, 2) shopping bag. Can also do for dirty clothes if there is a washer nearby. (Made in house. Also other bags, there is a lot of interesting, slippy-textured...
  2. Texas Walker

    Pack Cover Failure

    I well remember walking behind people with pack covers in the very wet spring of 2014. Often there was a cup or more of water sloshing in the bottom of the pack cover. I always use a poncho that covers all. I had read somewhere that the reason the cover doesn't quite do what is intended is that...
  3. Texas Walker

    Traveling from Texas

    I think it's also useful to know that you can leave by the bus from the airport if you're going to a place that bus goes. In 2021 we took the bus (made tickets beforehand) to Leon and began our Salvador. It's also on the Frances route and would make an easy trip to a start point for that. (About...
  4. Texas Walker

    Any recommendations for where to stay in Hornillos and El Burgo Ranero

    It's been quite a while since we stayed in El Burgo Ranero (2014) but at that time there were I think 4 albergues in the town. We ambled in about 1530 (3:30 PM) and they were all full. We got a room above one of the bars, and it's one of the special memories, waking up every hour during the...
  5. Texas Walker

    Time for more compostela type certificates?

    err...my Compostela is significantly larger than my credencial. Any of them. Do they issue a wallet size now? My credenciales (mostly) do sit inside their tubes, as that is safe storage for them. The exception being the first one, which is framed. The profile pic shows what else I have done to...
  6. Texas Walker

    Chinese shops???

    El Corte Ingles has branches, but I think more likely in large cities. I think I remember they had an outlet shop that we passed on the Portugues, back in 2015. Also we saw ads for buses that would take you to the outlet shop for a small fee...still wish I'd explored that!
  7. Texas Walker

    Food on the via la plata

    Gronze has some info; Not everything on Google Maps is in Gronze; we got as far as Caceres and there were very few fuentes to be seen. BC
  8. Texas Walker

    Dinner time on the VDLP

    This is a question that I would refer to Gronze.com. The last time I looked, they had the "closed" symbol on it. It's another 8 or 9 km into the next town if it's closed...a word to the wise and all that. BC
  9. Texas Walker

    Last night I learned I snore...

    IMHO, everybody snores. Not everybody knows that they snore. Side sleeping helps. adequate hydration--not a full bottle of wine but water before bed--probably helps. Not being stuffed up in the head helps. I don't care about snorers, I think that if someone wants to sleep in absolute quiet the...
  10. Texas Walker

    Look behind you!!

    The nice Galilean was not the guy with the 4 friends, it was the guy who had been lying on the bed that had 4 friends. :) (edited for clarity)
  11. Texas Walker

    The Norte gets very quiet after Avilés

    Which is the Palancas route? I'm unfamiliar with this nickname. Thx BC
  12. Texas Walker

    knee pain

    I will throw one thought in that hasn't been mentioned. (Only because I had to come home early this year, after doing 1/3 of the Camino walk we had planned.) I got into problems because *I wasn't drinking enough water.* I became pretty much unable to walk. Had to taxi to the train station in...
  13. Texas Walker

    Say No! to rubber tips on your poles.

    You have this backwards. And if you need the pole for stability in town, perhaps because of an injury, the rubber tip is a wonderful thing.
  14. Texas Walker

    A word of warning on trail runners or light weight shoes.

    I don't know about your home area, in mine the stores sell insoles that are aimed at workers who are on their feet a lot. I buy Dr. Scholl's Womens Gel Work insole, trace the old insole on the bottom and trim the new one to size. I figure, if it's got a 6 month warranty for someone working as a...
  15. Texas Walker

    Scenic 100km on southern part of Via de la plata?

    DH wanted me to come here to stand up for some of the most beautiful countryside we have ever walked: the Dehesa of southern Spain. We walked from Sevilla this spring and got as far as Caceres before heading home to resume later. The walk from Sevilla passes the fascinating Italica (if we had...
  16. Texas Walker

    Oviedo Cathedral - No longer free to pilgrims?

    Visiting the Sudario in the room of relics is one thing. Anytime the room is open, one can visit. There is a kneeler for those who wish to venerate the relic. Actually *seeing* the Sudario is, AFAIK, only possible when it is exposed for veneration by the faithful one day a year. (The almost...
  17. Texas Walker

    Hiking with bad popped blisters

    Compeed are not designed to be changed daily like other bandages. The glue is on the whole thing and when it gives out under normal conditions the blister has healed. Not so much on hot, sweaty feet inside an enclosed boot/shoe. As a counterpoint to your pharmacist that maybe doesn't realize...
  18. Texas Walker

    Hiking with bad popped blisters

    Adding to what dick bird said, the thick socks take up the not-enough-space inside the bote. I personally walk in Injinji sox, as they keep my toes from getting into each others' business, and often the Injinji I am wearing on the trail is a liner one. *Do not put good hiking socks into the...
  19. Texas Walker

    Hiking with bad popped blisters

    In 2014 my situation was similar...partly owing to the floods we walked through the second day of the pilgrimage. The blisters were awful, and when they healed they were replaced by athlete's foot. The larger shoes are critical. Also, try out the simple treatment of: alcohol to clean, gauze to...
  20. Texas Walker

    Any recommendations of places to stay in Rubiaes?

    In case it hasn't been mentioned, if you use one of the Chrome based browsers, you can use google translate to translate the page...Comilla got translated as Semicolon, IIRC, but it does help folks that have no, zero, none Spanish vocabulary. We stayed in the albergue at Rubiaes, there were...

❓How to ask a question

How to post a new question on the Camino Forum.

Latest posts

This site is run by Ivar at

in Santiago de Compostela.
This site participates in the Amazon Affiliate program, designed to provide a means for Ivar to earn fees by linking to Amazon
Official Camino Passport (Credential) | 2024 Camino Guides
Back
Top