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annelise said:Maybe I will need in future to use a backpack taxa. But I would dearly love to carry my own backpack when going back to the camino (walked 435 km with backpack May 2011). But after coming home, I had a severe fall and now have a shoulder implant. Rehabilitation has been successful. However, I am still uncertain as to whether I will be able to carry my pack, when I return, but I intend to test it and will go into training now.
However, I had a somewhat strange occurrence when I walked from Villafranca Montes de Oca to Atapuerca – the only day that I did not carry my full pack (had an arrangement with the lovely hotel that they would come and take me back and then bring me back next day to where I had left).
Then when sitting and resting along the wayside on my way over the mountain - and thoroughly enjoying the weather, the nature, and suddenly feeling just totally happy (how often does this happen?), a passing lady abruptly stopped and said with a reproving tone of voice: "That rucksack looks very light" !!! - I was so surprised (and in fact so lost for words), that I only smiled and said "Yes".
I now wonder where these busybodies come from – and what drives them?
I used them this year as my CPAP machine etc wights over 3 kg (and I am over 65)glennb said:I saw a reference to "backpack taxis". Is that what I think it might be? A van that ferrys backpacks to the next stop for a fee so that the Pilgrim can walk without his pack?
Not that I would ever stoop so low, mind you, but just curious as an academic matter.... Are they reliable and honest? Am I likely to see them on the Frances as early as April?
katarob said:I've lurked on this site for years and benefited from much of the information so generously shared. I'm getting ready to do part of the Camino starting in a couple of weeks, from O'Cebreiro. I'll have my bag moved by Jacotrans and carry only a daypack . Given where I'm in my life even doing it this way is a big challenge. I'm sorry to see that some here look down on people who chose for whatever reason to walk the Camino this way. I"m in awe and admire those that do it the "real" way, but I'm happy to do it my way. Buen camino a todos.
If you had tried a stage or two without a pack, you would appreciate a baggage service! There is an incredible difference between a light pack and no pack. I am not advocating either; I am just saying there is a big difference.I really enjoyed the camino and backpack of 8-9 kgs was no problem at all.
Isn't that just another opinion on what constitutes a "real camino?" After all, the entire thing in public property, so anyone can be anywhere for any reason.huge groups playing at the Camino does
falcon269 said:If it was Santiago with a credencial full of stamps collected in one day, I presume the Pilgrim Office would notice!
Pieces said:I knów there are just tons of horrible cheating people out there...
Isn't it just terrible ?
On my last day of walking (after having walked 17 days with severe hip and leg pains during wich I more than once considered the luggagetranspor) I unfortunately encountered a case of the dreaded unpredictable bowels syndrome (maybe from the dinner the night before) so between the bedbugs, the bad leg and the cold shiwers I finally caved in and had the nearest bar (to wich i virtually crawled) call me a taxi to take me to the next albergue (a municipal) where I was kindly allowed to be let in early so I could crawl into bed and where a delightfull Irish hospitalero brought me tea after I slept and informed me on how to get the bus to Leon the next day...
So beware, we are out there, us taxitaking horrors who should be turned out into the streets as not to take a bed from others even if the albergue is only half full...
I totally agree, we are despicable
Just saying...
Thomas Hugues said:Don't go if you can't carry your own bag !
What would our medieval ancestors think ? "Oh, pennance doesn't have to hurt ! Put my pack on Heloise's donkey !"
Thomas Hugues said:Don't go if you can't carry your own bag !
What would our medieval ancestors think ? "Oh, pennance doesn't have to hurt ! Put my pack on Heloise's donkey !"
I'll pass that on to Luis Hernandez, who walked from St.-Pied-de-Port to Finisterre and used a baggage service the entire distance.Lazy...
That's all it is.
Frank1 said:Perhaps yes, but shouldn't we make the difference between pilgrims( which walk and don't take buses or taxis and carry their badpack) and tourists( which take taxis and buses, which luggage is transported)?
KiwiNomad06 said:I first walked the Camino in 2008, and have just returned home after walking part of it again. In 2008 most people I met before Sarria seemed to carry their packs most days- but this year I sometimes felt like a 'rarity' carrying my own pack. Many more people seem to be using baggage services on a regular basis.
Margaret
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