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  1. Miguel de Flandes

    Rest Days on the VDLP

    May I add Baños de Montemayor to the list Buen Camino, Miguel
  2. Miguel de Flandes

    Wow! Hotel Norte y Londres prices

    Ascen Ascencion day is unheard of in (most parts) of Spain. Have had to explain several years how come a group of 20 working-age people could take time off to visit a couple of cities… In Belgium thursday is an official holiday in Belgium (friday is not, but for a lot of people it is too) so...
  3. Miguel de Flandes

    What camera do you use?

    Ivar was using some new toy in one of his latest video’s, insta360, and that footage with an invisible selfie-stick looked great! I contemplated taking my Nikon d750 with my holy trinity (24mm, 50mm and 85mm), but after putting them on the scales, I opted for my iPhone 6 (in 2016) and iPhone 11...
  4. Miguel de Flandes

    Boxer shorts - any recommendations

    While preparing for my first time, I didn’t take the advise ‘ beware of all enterprises that require new clothes’ and I invested in Icebreaker Anatomica boxers. By the time I left for the second half of the VdlP 3 yeras later, I did take that age-old advise, and jus grabed 3 Icebreaker...
  5. Miguel de Flandes

    In Hindsight

    Best spot in Ourense. Buen Camino Miguel
  6. Miguel de Flandes

    VdlP Food Recommendations - A Serious Question

    I’ve heard it from a Spanish bicigrino in Montamarta: the VdlP is the only camino where you gain weight… Buen camino! Miguel
  7. Miguel de Flandes

    UV umbrella in Burgos?

    I’d like to add: for more complicated challenges you need a bigger hammer 🔨 Buen camino Miguel
  8. Miguel de Flandes

    Advice: Restart Camino from SJPP or from where I left off 5 years ago?

    We can live each moment once, we can only walk each path once. onbthe off chance that the environment, weather, number of pilgrims … were to be the same, you yourself won’t be, so if time is no objection, I’d start over from SJPdP. This comes of course from the pilgrim who walked from Seville...
  9. Miguel de Flandes

    Injury stopped me last year. Must I start over?

    I started the VdlP in september 2016 and walked from Sevilla to Astorga. In june 2019 I walked from Zamorra to SdC taking the Sanabrés route. The kind volunteer in the Pilgrim’s office checked my stamps, and issued me my Compostella. I did only get the “official” VdlP cerificate of distance...
  10. Miguel de Flandes

    Unicycle, electric, as a luggage carrier.

    the best traveler’s trick applies to pilgrims as well: take half the amount of clothes, and twice as much money… Rainpants seem to be quite heavy, but then I’ve only walked june, september and october on the VdlP, I could dig them as only long pants on rainier routes. Buen camino! Miguel
  11. Miguel de Flandes

    Cash or cards?

    in 2016 on the VdlP I learned the hard way that 1) not all hostals accept cards, 2) not all card-taking operations are willing to give you a ”cash advance” when you pay for a small ticket article, and 3) that few of the small towns have ATMs. When I did the second leg, I carried 100€ stashed...
  12. Miguel de Flandes

    Current status on the Olvidado — late May 2021

    Looks really nice, especially for a municipal! Looking forward to walk the Olvidado, but I guess it will still be there next year. Buen camino! Miguel
  13. Miguel de Flandes

    Which hat looks better?

    as long as you’re not wearing a baseball cap while not playing baseball… A seems a bit too pointy for you, so I’ll go with B 🤠👮💂‍♀️🧑‍🌾🧙‍♂️ Buen camino! Miguel
  14. Miguel de Flandes

    Masks: If you need one which one should You buy in Europe?

    In Belgium, ffp2 are readily available, but mostly worn by health care professionals. Paper surgical masks, and purpose-made cloth masks are allowed for public transport, shops, busy streets where social distanceing isn’t possible. I was in the hospital earlier this week, and they insisted on at...
  15. Miguel de Flandes

    Keurig / K cup Cafe con Leche

    to add to the Tamtamplin’s Camino Training Programme: Ask your a family member to randomly switch on the vacuum cleaner next to where you're sleeping, then try to switch it off, because you forgot your earplugs. Buen Camino Miguel
  16. Miguel de Flandes

    Returning to sanity: Planning my next, Post-Covid Camino.

    Never mind finding a bed between stages: you’re lucky to find a town between stages on the VdlPlata buen camino!
  17. Miguel de Flandes

    Are goretex shoes necessary?

    Back in 2016, I walked the VdlP from Seville to Astorga in Lowa Renegades with leather interior. One blister because my shoes got filled up and my socks soaked in a ‘chubasco’ the second or third day. Easily fixed, and by day 6 no longer a problem. This june I walked from Zamorra to SdC (via...
  18. Miguel de Flandes

    How big is your pack?

    Deuter Fox 40. As I’m only 160cm tall, this adjustable ‘junior’ pack was my best choice a couple of years ago. Only, with as little experience I have, it’s just a little too large now: I regularly do citytrips with only 30 liters... Ultreia Miguel
  19. Miguel de Flandes

    Which half of the VDLP??

    I’m planning for the Sanabres in june, after I walked from Sevilla to Astorga in september-october 2016. I would’t want to muss out on the first half! Start from Sevilla, and visit Italica on the first day. Be prepared to carry 10% of your body-weight as luggage, and 5% more in water if you’re...
  20. Miguel de Flandes

    Soap for body and clothes???

    I started out with a bar of Sunlight soap (Sunlight on Wikipedia), better for hair and body and surprisingly good for clothes. After a couple of weeks I lost the worn-down bar down a drain-hole in a lavadero, and replaced it with a bar of jabón Lagarto (Jabón Lagarto) which was better for...

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