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  1. Heikki

    Handy Bottle

    Buy a half liter bottle from local shop, it costs 20-40 cents and fill it from tap when it is empty. It is washable and also very light. I usually carry two or three of these and once a week buy new ones.
  2. Heikki

    If You have Walked the Camino - Do you prefer boots or trail runners?

    Same as Davey, because of the weight, I have to wear boots. Heikki
  3. Heikki

    The Marvelous Buff

    Me merinowool buff has done two Caminos already and it is going to Camino Norte next year.
  4. Heikki

    How much weight did you actually carry?

    I'm 56 years old and weight 75 kilos and last time carried 12 kilos plus food and water and that made my vuoden less than 15 kilos. I had no problem with my kilos.
  5. Heikki

    Melanie's Via de la Plata app

    I can also recommend Melanie's app. We walked VdlP April and May this year. We used also Peter Robins's maps (the Walking Pilgrim) which were also very good and complemented Melanie's app.
  6. Heikki

    Jet boil butane canisters?

    You can find gas canisters only in big cities. I'd suggest take an alcohol burner, so you can buy alcohol from every farmacia (250 ml Bottle about 2 euros). I know what i'm talking, two years ago I carried 650 kilometres gas burner for nothing, only place I found gas canisters was in Leon. This...
  7. Heikki

    Electric Coil vs. Alcohol/Meth Stove

    Thank you renegadepilgrim.
  8. Heikki

    Electric Coil vs. Alcohol/Meth Stove

    Does anyone know what is the brand name of the fuel/alcohol in Spain what I have to buy to burn in my Trangia? Where I can buy it?
  9. Heikki

    The electric coil changed my life on the Camino!

    I found no place to buy canisters on Camino Madrid and Camino Primitivo, on Frances found one specialist trekking shop who sold those. Next time I take my Trangia.

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