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My most recent Camino was 2016 and I am starting again from SJPP in May. I’m keen to know if Covid has impacted the Camino. For example in many places I visit cash is no longer King even for a coffee and I’m expected to tap my card- is that the same on the Camino or do I still take plenty of...
I voted physical illness but it wasn’t mine! Husband cycling in the mountains near Oviedo fell off his bike and ended up in ICU so I had to go help get his very sore body and bike back to the UK!
I buy Yates permethrin from Bunnings and use it diluted as for fruit trees. I soak or spray my backpack and outer layers of my sleeping bag in it and let them dry. Haven’t had any problems with bedbugs on two Caminos. Hope it’s the same in July!
Not in the €50 price range but full of pilgrims, between the cathedral and the pilgrims office and with the most wonderful service and delightful cheap but oh so tasty food is Restaurante Tavara. Nothing but praise for the 3 meals I ate there. Once at €8.50 and twice splashing out at €14. Pretty...
The Yates pack says "pyrethrum is a natural insecticide extracted from the pyrethrum daisy. It kills pests on contact" . Pyrethrum daisy is part of the chrysanthemum family apparently according to wiki!!
Kanga, sitting here in Margaret River WA looking at a bottle of Yates Pyrethrum insect pest killer that I would use for whitefly in the garden. Does that work in anyway to protect from or expose bedbugs do you think if I were to spray my silk sleeping liner and backpack? I'd be less worried...
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