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    checking backpacks on international flights

    may I suggest that if your bag is too heavy to go as hand baggage, you are carrying too much.
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    sleepbag/sleepsac dilemma.

    Hola Buena Last year (May/June) I carried a sleeping bag the same weight as yours and it was just right though I may not need as much insulation as you. There were nights when most of me was outside the bag because of the heat, but there were also cooler nights when I needed it. I also took a...
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    musicial instruments?

    When I was on the way last year I took a mouth organ but never got round to playing it. I was completely submerged in the camino lifestyle. I wouldn't have taken my fiddle; it would have been too fragile without a case and that would have been heavy and clumsy. I agree that a mandolin makes more...
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    Drink bottle, gloves, Torch & money belt advice

    Please, please, please don't take a head torch if you intend to use it at night in the albergues. You will wake everyone and may not survive the experience. Last year I got on very well with a single LED hand torch and that included several walks in the dark. As to water, I bought 3 half...
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    your MVP

    ear plugs sun hat lightweight sleeping bag
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    trekking poles

    Hi Carole You could always try thinking outside the box - don't use poles (I hate walking with them anyway) and buy a knife when you get to spain (they are cheap and good). Then you can take everything on hand baggage, thus being sure of not losing it, being forced to keep the weight down...
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    Water amount

    Hi I walked from SJPdP in May/June in great heat and always carried 1.5L of water. By topping up at every opportunity I seldom had to break into the last 0.5L but would not walk without it. The danger is that you start rationing yourself and then you start wondering why you feel so tired. I...
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    Slightly different boots question

    Hi Martin I've just come back from the Camino Frances. I took leather boots and found them horribly hot in the extreme conditions on the meseta (temps in the 40s were being reported). I don't get blisters normally but I gotr them in spades this time. It helped to only lace the lower part of...
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    Wooden Walking Sticks or Modern Trekking Poles

    In answer to Deborah's question, I am 69. I did the 800km in 29 days and although I did have trouble with my feet (blisters and tendon) I believe that it was the extreme heat in leather boots that did it and there were only two occasions when I felt that sticks would have been useful. I have...
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    Wooden Walking Sticks or Modern Trekking Poles

    I've just finished the walk from St J PdP to Santiago and didn't use any form of stick. To my mind any advantage of using arm muscle strength up or down hill is countered by the problem of where do you put the damned things when you should be concentrating on body balance and where you put your...
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    karrimor packs

    Hi Dawn I am flying out from Stanstead to Biarritz, arriving in time (I hope) to get the evening train from Bayonne to StJPdP. If you decide to go that way I may see you on the plane. Better warn you, though - I'm white bearded, bald and old! Anyway, enjoy the trip. Paul
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    Camping

    Hi all I don't plan to take a tent (starting from StJPdP on 15th May) but a good night's sleep is more important to me than saving half a Kg so I will be carrying a small thermarest and a space blanket just in case I ever have to kip down in a doorway or under a hedge. I'm still trying to...
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    karrimor packs

    Hi Dawn Karrimor make a range of sacks: they aren't the most sophisticated ones in the world, but they work. I have just bought a 35l one which weighs 1.2kg. It's a bit heavier than my old one (which saw me through 4 weeks trekking in Chile) but it has a good padded waist band, air...
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    Footwear Question

    Hi all I suspect that those of us who are not foot obsessed at the start of the pilgrimage, may well be at the end. I once met a girl in the Chilean mountains, two days from civilization, who had put on a new pair of woolen socks that morning, and by the time she decided that she should...

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