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Hi, I leave in five days (newbie, Frances). This may sound like a silly question, but where exactly in Sarria can I buy a really good rain poncho? My local store is sold out of anything that will cover my pack. I am really short, barely 5 feet tall, so I need a very small size, but with proper...
Hi, I live in five days a new time to order a poncho. Apparently it has been raining a lot. I’d like to have something to cover my pack because I can’t find my pack cover from years ago. Can I ask where in Sarria you got your poncho?
I’m Canadian & yes $16/day is a lot if you walk for 4-6 weeks. But I just left Turkmenistan, where FB is forbidden, WhatsApp is blocked, & we paid $270/night to stay at a hotel with any internet at all so we could keep in touch with our families. So I am very gratefully (today in Istanbul)...
Is it possible to buy walking poles in Santiago de Compostela? Used ones are fine. My sister is flying into Santiago, but I will be in Europe for two months prior and I don’t want to carry poles around. Or maybe I don’t need them? I did use them for Kilimanjaro, but we are just doing the last...
Forgive my total ignorance in this area, I didn’t know there was any such thing as an Esim!. I will be in central Asia for one month, (Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan), then five weeks doing the Camino in Spain. Do you know if there is one plan that will do...
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