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  1. WGroleau

    Can I pack my small multi tool in carry on luggage (backpack)?

    Aside from whether it’s allowed or not, one point worth remembering when traveling is that if there’s an airport where you’re going, you can probably buy anything you need there. Maybe not everything you want, but …
  2. WGroleau

    Transport along the Camino St James Route

    For that particular application, make a list of the "non-optional" sections you want buses for. Then ask Apple Maps or Google Maps for the transit directions for each of those sections.Alternatively, you could go to the website of each bus company and get the itineraries showing the times and...
  3. WGroleau

    Alsa Bus and luggage

    I put my entire bicycle and other luggage in the luggage bays under Spanish buses. Alsa, and several other companies. They are similar to Greyhound buses, although the toilet room was always next to the exit door in the middle. Almost always there were a few pilgrims with packs underneath...
  4. WGroleau

    Traveling from Texas

    Rome2Rio is a good source for routing ideas, but it is often completely wrong about price and schedules. Also, if you put “europe” for destination, instead of looking all over Europe, it tells you how to get to Frankfurt, Germany. I assume it has a similar flaw with any other “flexible"...
  5. WGroleau

    Planning?

    I don’t. I just start walking. Or (sometimes) pedaling.
  6. WGroleau

    Carry on luggage with Vueling…how strict are they on dimensions?

    I’ve been on Vueling, Iberia, Level, and many others. None has ever asked to measure my bag, even though I have occasionally had to work a little to squeeze it into the overhead bin.
  7. WGroleau

    Interactive Map

    maps.me runs off-line although you have to download and/or update its maps when online. You have to select the area you want to download, and you can delete area you no longer need to save space. It has more than one source for maps; one of them is Open Street Map. It doesn’t come with Camino...
  8. WGroleau

    Clarification of new entry rules in Oct 24.

    This retired software engineer agrees. Our USA "real ID" mandate has been postponed more than once. Part of my career, though, was in health care, and USA was on ICD-9 code ages after Europe was on ICD-10.
  9. WGroleau

    Pros & Cons of One-way Flights

    I use several of them, but once I find a fare I like, I check the airline to see their price for the same flight. If its's the same or lower, or even if it's slightly higher, I book with the airline. There are a couple of aggregators that I will not book with (due to past rip-offs) but I still...
  10. WGroleau

    Clarification of new entry rules in Oct 24.

    Every time I've changed planes in a country other than my destination, I could have left the airport but never needed any paperwork for it. So, I see the rationale, but perhaps it's an overreaction to our national paranoia about immigration. A couple of times, I actually had enough time to go...
  11. WGroleau

    Clarification of new entry rules in Oct 24.

    "Stamps will no longer be needed" But will they be available? The stamps in my passport have some sentimental value. Knowing that my trip is enshrined in a couple of dozen bytes in a far away computer just won't have the same nostalgia value. Maybe they could do like San Marino—put a...
  12. WGroleau

    Pros & Cons of One-way Flights

    Often, I search both outbound and return separately with "flexible scheduling." Once I see the date/time/price combinations I like, I clear cookies and search again for a round trip with those dates. Clear cookies because sometimes they change the price when they know you have looked for those...
  13. WGroleau

    Very early flight time back home - when do you head to the airport?

    I may be a bit masochistic (or maybe just a cheapskate), but when I have a flight at 06:00 or earlier, I go to the airport the evening before and find an out of the way corner to sleep in. I suppose there may be an airport somewhere that doesn’t allow this, but I haven’t encountered one. I did...
  14. WGroleau

    Visa for Americans for more than 90 days?

    Waaah!! I like my stamps!
  15. WGroleau

    Baggage check

    Every airline I have ever flown on or considered publishes online their size limits for carry ons. Anyone ever known that your bag was within the limits and had a gate person claim it is too big and you must check it? How did you respond and did that response make things better or worse? It...
  16. WGroleau

    Long term visa for Europe?

    Coming from Canada, no visa is needed. The 90/180 rule you described applies if you come without a visa. Otherwise, there are many sorts of visas available. If you need more than ninety days, you apply for a visa (I think they call it "type D" for the country you are going to spend the most...
  17. WGroleau

    Visa for Americans for more than 90 days?

    Note that the day you arrive and the day you leave are counted. So the first day "out" starts at midnight after you leave, and the last day out ends at the midnight before you return. A tool that helps determine the legality or illegality of multiple visits is...
  18. WGroleau

    A little whining...

    I generally make sure I have long layovers. Especially with Greyhound (US bus company that is never on time and often arrives after the departure of the one I needed to change to). But I don't wear a cumbersome backpack in airports or bus/train stations. There are bags that will fit in an...
  19. WGroleau

    Checking your backpack on flights

    Lost baggage is much less of a problem now that they have all these bar-code scanners and automated tracking databases. But it somehow still happens occasionally. When I am packing for a trip, I keep in mind that anywhere an airport can be found, the only thing I can't buy there is the files...
  20. WGroleau

    Checking your backpack on flights

    I have never wrapped a bag. If the wrapping service is outside of security, TSA might¹ unwrap it. In more than a hundred flights, I've never seen anyone with a wrapped bag on board or in a waiting-to-board area, and almost none at checkin. I never check a bag unless I have to, and in dozens...

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