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I must say, strange to see all these plans for walking this year, us Aussies are stuck at home probably until some time next year, 2022. We don't have any covid in the community as I write (a few in quarantine), and the Govt wants to keep it that way by limiting travel.
I bought some from Anaconda years ago. However, my poles had longer rubber tips than I could buy, so when they wore through I pushed them right up and put new ones on the pole, that works fine.
I was told by a local, on the Norte route, that they are re-introducing bears....... having said that, the people I saw 'sleeping rough' seldom seemed to have great places to sleep at, the routes are not set up for camping spots.
The christian pilgrim route took over from the pagan route to Finesterre, so long before any Roman roads. I think it has deviated and changed many times.
We had a trial last year of Google delivery drones here in our suburb of Bonython, Canberra, Australia - very noisy, intrusive and unwelcome by 80% of people surveyed - we drove them to an early finish of their trial.
I think you can certainly have more categories. I perhaps fit in the Adventures one, but as an older person who has been walking all his life, the walking and carrying a pack was not new at all, the experiencing a different culture, architecture, landscape, people certainly was. The journey...
As per the other enquiry about camping, you need to actually spend money and buy a a good quality lightweight tent, or their will be guaranteed trouble on wet, cold, windy etc nights! Cheap tents are either heavy or rubbish that will not withstand a shower.
Pop up tents usually have rigid fiberglass poles or similar, so don't fold small! And having a single skin, no peg, cheap tent to my way of thinking is just asking for miserable nights. Better to spend money on a good quality lightweight tent. I do have a lifetime of bushwalking experience!
I think you are screaming at the wrong people. If a hostel or whatever takes bookings then people are entitled to book. You should, perhaps, be complaining to the people who run the establishments, they are the ones who make the rules not the users. I was not aware the god ran a booking...
I stayed in the new Linares hostel, very nice hostel, but there is very little at Linares, only a small shop and tractor repair factory! No food available at the hostel. Seems to like group bookings, so book ahead if you want a bed. Hostel is on the road opposite side to the shop if you are...
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