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  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. Miguel de Flandes

    UV umbrella in Burgos?

    I’d like to add: for more complicated challenges you need a bigger hammer 🔨 Buen camino Miguel
  4. 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
  5. 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...
  6. 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
  7. 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...
  8. Miguel de Flandes

    VdlP: Drafting my equipment list

    After extensive testing and some soul searching this week end: iphone + lightning cable + wall plug will replace all other electronics (I might need new prescription glasses after consulting the Camino guides on that screen for 40 days). I'll write my journal on paper, and take pics of that with...
  9. Miguel de Flandes

    VdlP: Drafting my equipment list

    Hello all Thank you very much for your insights. Will be "running some tests" this week-end. I hope to be posting my final packing list sometime next week. Buen Camino, Miguel.
  10. Miguel de Flandes

    Mindfulness on the camino

    Isn't "mindfulness" just a pseudo-scientific way to say "F* *ff, it's me-time!" ? Buen camino Miguel
  11. Miguel de Flandes

    We have all been there ...

    Esparadrapo: sticky tape Tirita: band-aid My shirt is chafing me: mi camiseta me hace rozadura Hope you never need these Buen camino Miguel
  12. Miguel de Flandes

    iphone verses camera

    Please be careful getting up close to people while photographing with wide angle lense: before you know it everyone's nose looks like a giant potato... Buen camino, have a great Walk, and happy snapping Miguel de Flandes
  13. Miguel de Flandes

    VdlP: Drafting my equipment list

    Thank you all very much for your suggestions. I stuffed (almost) everything on my list in my pack this week-end, and ended up at about 5,7 kg (mind you, that's carrying my camera and most of the paperwork in my pants pockets, as I am planning to do most of the time). Went by the traveller's...
  14. Miguel de Flandes

    VdlP: Drafting my equipment list

    How 's about a pic of that? Would settle for an artist's conception :)
  15. Miguel de Flandes

    VdlP: Drafting my equipment list

    Thanks for your comments, Jordon. Just keep in mind my list includes what I'll be wearing, so what do I wear while my zip-off pants are drying after laundry? I took rainpants a couple of years ago on the Cotswolds Way in England, but about half way found out that I was just as wet with or...
  16. Miguel de Flandes

    VdlP: Drafting my equipment list

    Thanks for the suggestion. Would be more versatile too: sleeping + possibly walking Buen Camino Miguel
  17. Miguel de Flandes

    VdlP: Drafting my equipment list

    Thanks for your comments, Danie. The cellphone I'll be taking is just that: a cellphone. I'll get plenty of frustration using my compact camera instead of a 'real' camera (i.e. dslr) Half a bladder only weighs 1,1 kg, as mutch as 2 small bottles. A full one will allow me not to depend on...
  18. Miguel de Flandes

    VdlP: Drafting my equipment list

    Thanks John. I'll try to fill my backpack with the stuff on my list this week-end so I know the real total weight. The sleeping bag is a real head-scratcher for me. A summer weight sleeping bag seems too hot for the first 3 weeks, and the liner too cold for the last 2 weeks. Maybe I could buy...
  19. Miguel de Flandes

    VdlP: Drafting my equipment list

    1. sorry for yet an other newbie's packing list 2. thanks to all peregrinos/as who post on this forum: reading your posts has been a great help over the past few months! I'm leaving for Spain on september 4th (first a week in Jerez de la Frontera, then off to Sevilla to start the VdlP). If...
  20. Miguel de Flandes

    Bic phone: is it still being sold in Spain?

    Thanks Pabloke Buen camino Miguel de Flandes

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