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  1. MagnusPompey

    A Quiet Camino Route?

    I did the VdlP in April, it was quiet and I moved north with the advancing spring weather. The migratory birds were returning, the countryside was alive. There were other pilgrims, it was not crowded or solitary.
  2. MagnusPompey

    Wheeled Hand Cart

    This would be perfect for you as the 4 wheels provide balance, just as a walking frame is designed to do. The biggest problem is damage while flying. In fact it arrived back in Tasmania with a bent wheel. Look online for shopping trolleys. This one pictured is by Playmarket model GO+.
  3. MagnusPompey

    Wheeled Hand Cart

    The price in Cortes Ingles in Madrid was €120.00, that was 3.5 years ago. It is made by Playmarket and is model GO+. It is actually a converted baby stroller frame and I have so far walked about 1,500km with this unit. It needs a few things 1/ a cup holder 2/ solar cells Or energy generation via...
  4. MagnusPompey

    Wheeled Hand Cart

    Try this instead. Purchased from Cortes Ingles for €120.00 has a Thermo pocket for cold wine and food. Can easily take 50kg, 4 wheels, very stable and I completed VDLP, Portuguese With this particular unit. Very stable, avoids falls like a walking frame and is the energy use of a baby’s stroller.
  5. MagnusPompey

    Wheeled Hand Cart

    David, I have walked the Camino Portuguese with a hand cart (shopping trolley pictured) which can be purchased at most hardware and department stores in both Portugal and Spain. The Portuguese journey is on cobblestones most of the way but is very doable. When choosing your trolley, pick the...
  6. MagnusPompey

    Via de la Plata in April?

    Yes, I started in mid April and it is beautiful. Spring creeps north at the same pace as you walk, the birds are migrating from Africa, flowers blooming. Outside of Sevilla the land is warming and that spring pheromone kicks joy into gear. I walked the 1,000km at times seeing only 1or two others...
  7. MagnusPompey

    Weather concerns 6/20-6/22

    The only country in the world that uses mm/dd/yyyy is the USA, please be aware that a date written in that form where the day is below 12 will be misinterpreted everywhere. Please use dd/mom/yyyy. Pedantic, yes but understand the confusion you will create for yourself.
  8. MagnusPompey

    Non-Compostela Statistics Question

  9. MagnusPompey

    Do I need rain gear in April and May on the Via de la Plata. What kind of sleeping gear I need?

    I completed the VdlP last April/May: Rain will happen, it always does. As for sleeping I use a double cotton fitted sheet and airline blankets, sleep in my clothes when I have to. There are some really crappy Albergues, like Grimaldi with windowless dorms and there are some great ones, just like...
  10. MagnusPompey

    What is the most unusual thing you have seen on any Camino?

    I have seen stones piled by the side of the road, people carrying all their possessions walking west, yellow arrows pointing the way. I have heard people singing, others wishing ‘happy trails’ and pilgrims praying. I have seen laughing crowds form in restaurants and empty fields and land lots of...
  11. MagnusPompey

    Is there any experience significance to changing the Camino route?

    Go West young man, go west.
  12. MagnusPompey

    Its a Wonderful Life

    Oh, give me land lots of land under starry starry nights, don’t fence me in. The life of a hobo for me.
  13. MagnusPompey

    How do I get past being a “New Member?” :-)

    Grasshopper, why do you ask?
  14. MagnusPompey

    I want to go back!

    Key the Woody Guthrie music: oh give me land, lots of land and the starry nights above, don’t fence me in...it’s just the life of a hobo.
  15. MagnusPompey

    Did you fall in love on the Camino?

    I fell in love in 2018, outside of Santiana Del mar. It was my second Camino, her first. A German lady who had caught up with my slow pace, smiled at me. I invited her to lunch, she said she had a booked room. I knew where I was going, it was accidently the same hotel, rooms next door. Lunch...
  16. MagnusPompey

    Late-season Camino Frances 2018 - pics and thoughts

    Good work.
  17. MagnusPompey

    Cheap flight from NZ

    I paid 40,000 qantas FF points and $342 for a one way to Barcelona as a Christmas present for my son, going in May.
  18. MagnusPompey

    Confessions of a Fat Pilgrim

    I am also large and thus careful. 3-4 days from Seville is a hill called Almaden, it is littered with crosses of Peregrinos who have fallen by the wayside, never to walk again. So I bought myself a 4 wheel Rolser shopping trolley from the Ferreteria in Madrid. Cost €60.00 it takes up to 35 kg...
  19. MagnusPompey

    Thefts at municipal albergue of Melide

    I was four days out on the Via de la Plata, this year, when I met a very loud guy, abrasive, Brazilian. Though the night he emptied the fridge, took everything that he fancied, from the backpacks and apparently left at 5 am, before everyone else woke to find their gear ransacked. Police called...
  20. MagnusPompey

    Useful Items from the Dollarstore to take with ? On a budget

    I am trying to figure out why you make a declaration that one size fits all and that ‘not will it work on the Norte’. I made it up and down those hills, along the beaches and narrow tracks. As I pointed out when it’s hard for the backpacker it’s hard with a trolley. Some folks like to walk 40kms...

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