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    Women & Men's walking poles

    I have bought poles for myself and my wife. While some poles do have different designs, the difference does seem to be small grips and, more importantly, smaller straps. Straps tend to dig into the side of the hand or wrist if they are too wide. Of course that assumes the user is putting...
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    Question on starting in August

    Thank you Lettinggo. I am going to be in San Sebastian in August, so hopefully long gone before the festival. The last week in August I assume presents its own challenges. My guess is the crowds thin as soon as September starts. My worry is that I will be late arriving after a late start on...
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    Question on starting in August

    I am wondering if anyone with recent experience can help me anticipate how crowed it will be in San Sebastion in two weeks. I will be arriving by train from Paris in Hendaye on the 25th. I will start and walk to San Sebastion or possibly a little further that day. I will be getting a late...
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    Hotel in Bayonne

    Ivar, William Thanks to you both for the help. Tom
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    Hotel in Bayonne

    On the theme of hotel recommendations off the Camino, can any one recommend a place to stay near the train station in Bayonne. I may be arriving after the last train to SJPdP on Tuesday and would like to stay near the station so that I can leave early the next morning and maybe walk to Honto or...
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    Pamplona hotel?

    Hi, Sil. I think my decision to start in SJPdP was so I could do all of the camino in Spain; but I am sure that I was influnenced by what I had read too. My own introduction was in a book by Rosemary Mahoney in which she describes her visits to a number of different pilgrimages sites, and that...
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    Another question about sleeping bags

    Peter Robbins has a great site for the historical wather along the camino: http://www.peterrobins.co.uk/camino/weather.html. There is also a link to it and other weather sites in the FAQ page from the main CSJ home page. The coldest usual temperature in Feb is 8.5 (47F), and you will be...
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    cell phones

    Ivar, thanks for your quick response. As always this is a big help. Now all I have to do is decipher and decide. Ah to only have to get up each day, face away from the sun, and see how far I go.
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    cell phones

    13 days to go and I thought I had my kit all planned, if not actually packed. Now all of the wonderful people, who are letting me go and staying behind, keep asking me to take a phone. I can get my US phone adapted so that it will work in Spain (and then everyone will know how to find...
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    taxis from Rouncevalles-SJPdP/flights from Santiago-Paris?

    Ivar, thank you for look into this. I think you have actually convinced me to fly into Madrid and worry about getting to St Jean when I get there. If I need an extra day to get started it will not be the end of the world.
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    taxis from Rouncevalles-SJPdP/flights from Santiago-Paris?

    I am planning to start in SJPdP in Mid-May. I will be comming from the US. If I fly to Madrid, the only way (or at least the easiest way) to get to SJPdP is by Taxi from Pamplona or Rouncevalles. I have seen an old post with contact information for taxis. Does anyone have current information...
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    pack weight

    Dear Meldoy; I am a novice, so can not reply from experience, but I too have been obcessing on this issue for a while. At Backpacker45.com (there is a link to the page at americanpilgrims.com) there is a list of gear with a running weight chart. It totals 20.7 pounds (9.5kilos); not likely...
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    no room in the inn?

    I am planning to walk the camino in May-June. I have just read the post of Peter Robins on SJPdP stats for last year. I quick review seems to indicate that more people start (about a thousand/ week) in mid May than cound find beds along the way in Rouncevalles or many other places along the...

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