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In Italy you can't carry on. I know a lot of italian pilgrims that traied to fly with walking sticks, but at the controls at the airport (Milan, Rome, Bergamo, Pisa) were confiscated
During my first Camino I carried a 9 kg backpack ( 1 kg was of medicin: my husband is doctor and he gave me a lot of things!) ...but it was too havy , in the second one the weight was 7 kg and this year I hope will be 6 kg.
The Camino teachs me that I really need few things and so the backpack...
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