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I very much agree. The answers have been much more illuminating and thoughtful than I had anticipated. And much more evenly split then I thought they would be.
I got a new hat, "A", and was all proud until my daughter said it was a "no". A very strong no. "B" is my trusty hat of 6 caminos. Please leave a vote. Thanks!
Another Idahoan here! From the frosty Northlands. I walked SJPdP to Santiago in 2014 and Le Puy to SJPdP in 2015. Both times in the fall and both times solo. Going to walk a week of the Francigena to Rome this April with my wife.
Ditto, Duolingo is great for a free service. Pack Light. Wool...
I found the bedbugs to be nearly as bad on the Le Puy route as on the Frances. I got bitten several times and saw bedbugs in my bed and caught one on my face in the middle of the night. So they are out there. I found (perhaps coincidentally) that I stopped having problems with them once I began...
Just walked the Chemin de St. Jacques from Le Puy to St. Jean. Got bitten by bedbugs several times. I know they were bedbugs because I caught one. Oddly, about halfway through, I stopped getting bitten and had no further problems. The only thing I did differently was after shaking EVERYTHING out...
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