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Wow this is amazing. I don't think they had this last year when i attempted the vdlp. I had to carry my pack and it aggravated my foot further causing the injury. Has anyone tried their service?Another new and good backpack transport service is that of the Spanish post office or Correos. You can easily book the night before directly via your smartphone. Read more here.
Wow this is amazing. I don't think they had this last year when i attempted the vdlp. I had to carry my pack and it aggravated my foot further causing the injury. Has anyone tried their service?
This is a great find. I used to pay about 20 eu/stage for taxi on the Norte in 2014. Thank you.The Correos service started slowly late late summer 2015. The kind hospitalera in Ventosa suggested I use it after I fell. It was great - simple, inexpensive and efficacious.
Thanks for the info. My doctors are now recommending no more hiking (Caminos) with a heavy rucksack...sheesh!
At 63, after two earlier decades of being morbidly obese, my doctors are finally telling me that the menisci in both of my knees are shot, and arthritis is beginning to work on my ankles and hips...(family trait). At a time like this I am sure glad I am not a farm animal... Bone-on-bone grating of the knees sure does hurt on a rainy day in Spain. Voltaren and paracetamol work very well, but only for so long.
FYI, after FOUR Caminos, this time my rucksack was FINALLY down to 23 pounds / 10 kilos. This is less than my starting "naked" (eeeeuw!) weight of 246 pounds, or 112 kilos.
Talk about irony. It took me four Camino efforts over as many years, as Ivar can attest by my "down the road" shipments to him each year, to lighten my load. Each year, I struggled to shave every ounce and gram, spending money on the lightest quality gear money could buy. In the process, continually proved Albert Einstein's theorem about insanity...repeating the same rucksack loading experiment, while somehow thinking it would, somehow, trick the scale...
Karma being what it is, Nate & Faith will receive all my earlier "test objects" when I bring them to the Pilgrim House donativo in July. Nate and I spoke in April, and they are willing to take all my "surplus to requirements" Camino stuff off my hands. As I will work as a Voluntario through the Feast of Santiago, and for some weeks thereafter, checking a second bag through to Santiago is the easiest solution. It is time to pare back and give back...
After I had to quit at Sarria in April from the discomfort and pain, I am reassessing how best to continue to do a Camino as long as I can stand. It does not affect my ability to volunteer at Santiago each year, but it does affect walking a Camino.
Both the Correos and the commercial mochila services offer very viable alternatives for assistance with mochilas. I will work them into my future plans. As I typically do not stay in albergues, I should mot have problems arriving "assisted" by the mochila service.
On the plus side, I can now board most airlines sooner as a person needing extra time to board, as I must use a cane some days...in case one of my knees decides to go one way, when I want to go the other way.
Still and all, while getting old can be a bit$h, it sure beats the alternative of NOT living longer to get older...
Thanks again.
Using Jacotrans right now. I like that we can book online with a credit card and that they store our information so we don't have to enter it each time. So far they've been reliable.
The Levitation knee brace looks promising, but OH so expensive... I am not there yet, but I did save the URL as a bookmark for future reference. Thanks for the lead.
On September 1 of this year, I will be on my third Camino, this time starting in Astorga. Due to a bone marrow transplant, my oncologist is letting me go, but won't let me carry a backpack. I did see both Camino Facil and Jacotrans on my last two trips moving backpacks from one albergue to another. Is one better or more reliable than the other? Any input is appreciated. - Steve
Another new and good backpack transport service is that of the Spanish post office or Correos. You can easily book the night before directly via your smartphone. Read more here.
Speaking of Correos, I emailed them to ask how payment is managed and they suggested that I make a deposit into their bank account and then send them the receipt (something I would rather not hassle with), but they didn't comment on how future payments would be made. Even more curious is the price quote they gave me for two different sections I plan to walk (as follows):
The rate for your walk Burgos – Villalcazar de Sirga is 12€/suitcase(all the stages are included).
The rate for your walk León – Santiago de Compostela is 15€/suitcase(all the stages are included).
I don't have a clue what this means. It couldn't possibly mean they charge only 15 euros for all the stages from Leon to Santiago or that they charge 15 euros per day. I have read their web site in depth and while their rates are listed, they don't explain how payment is made.
I would be interested in anyone else's experience using Correos. Gracias.
The price that they quote you is the total sum for that section of the route. Send them back an email asking them to confirm your understanding of what they wrote.
I would imagine that Correos means transporting the suitcase once directly from Leon to SdC for 15 euros. Hence transporting it only one day across that length of the camino.
We used Caminofacil from León to Santiago and were extremely pleased with their service. We were able to book everything online and print out all our luggage tags. The tags had bar codes as well as our name and destination and our bag was waiting for us at the end of every day. No problems at all.
I would imagine that Correos means transporting the suitcase once directly from Leon to SdC for 15 euros. Hence transporting it only one day across that length of the camino.
I arranged with Correos to put the 52 euros in cash in a Correos envelope on the first day they picked up my bag in Leon. So, you don't need to pay via wire transfer or at the Correos office if you are comfortable leaving money in the Correos envelope.
Hello Julia.I can't speak for Camino Facil, but I have never had an issue with Jacotrans.
I like that they are on WhatsApp so it is really easy to message them each evening regarding your plans for the following day.
Have you thought about trying to just take I set of clothes, a poncho & a fleece? Then stay only in hostels that provide bedding? Or would that be too much weight & cost? I just realized this is a very personal question so don't answer that. I had walked with a person that never stayed in alburgues only fancy hotels & would taxi past area's that did not have hotel type service. I will say we were about as opposite on this as people can be. Yet it did remind me that we all go on pilgrimage for our own reason & must not Expect others to follow our personal set of rules. Some would find mine extreme.I was recently told much the same thing.
Here in South Florida, they are making progress growing one's own stem cells in a lab around a "matrix" that is 3D computer shaped to replace the menisci cartilage we all have in our knees. It is even advertised on the TV. They surgically replace your natural mensici, or in my case what little remains of the original, with this custom-built replacement part. I am thinking that this might forestall the artificial knee replacement surgery my mom had about 10 years ago.
Since moving here seven months ago, I have noticed that medical care of all type, but especially procedures and therapies aimed at older folks with movement issues, abound. After all, this is where the demand for good medical care is highest.
I am waiting for the long term results of this stem cell - menisci replacement thing, and conversion to accepted therapy as opposed to experimental mode, before I submit to it. But it sounds like a long-term plan.
For now, I am thinking of using a mochila transport service for my next Camino, in 2017. As I do not typically use albergues it should be fine. If that does not work well, Plan B is to try a bicycle Camino.
But regardless, I WILL adapt and overcome!
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Or, am I overthinking this and it will take care of itself when I am on the camino?
No you cannot just send your backpack anywhere randomly. Can you imagine what this would mean for the hospy? Taking time off their busy schedule to receive your bag, store it, secure it. Then most likely expect that you will be hoping spending the night there and either saving you a bed or at worrying that you expect a bed when they may al be already booked. This is not fair to any hospitalero.I am planning on bringing a group of teachers to do Sarria to Santiago next Easter. What happens if you do not have an albergue booked in the next town? Can you just nominate your backpack to be sent to any albergue and pick it up there and then decide where you want to stay?
I am planning on bringing a group of teachers to do Sarria to Santiago next Easter. What happens if you do not have an albergue booked in the next town? Can you just nominate your backpack to be sent to any albergue and pick it up there and then decide where you want to stay?
On September 1 of this year, I will be on my third Camino, this time starting in Astorga. Due to a bone marrow transplant, my oncologist is letting me go, but won't let me carry a backpack. I did see both Camino Facil and Jacotrans on my last two trips moving backpacks from one albergue to another. Is one better or more reliable than the other? Any input is appreciated. - Steve
I used Jacotrans 2016, 2017 and 2019. they were greatOn September 1 of this year, I will be on my third Camino, this time starting in Astorga. Due to a bone marrow transplant, my oncologist is letting me go, but won't let me carry a backpack. I did see both Camino Facil and Jacotrans on my last two trips moving backpacks from one albergue to another. Is one better or more reliable than the other? Any input is appreciated. - Steve
Hi courageThanks for the info. My doctors are now recommending no more hiking (Caminos) with a heavy rucksack...sheesh!
At 63, after two earlier decades of being morbidly obese, my doctors are finally telling me that the menisci in both of my knees are shot, and arthritis is beginning to work on my ankles and hips...(family trait). At a time like this I am sure glad I am not a farm animal... Bone-on-bone grating of the knees sure does hurt on a rainy day in Spain. Voltaren and paracetamol work very well, but only for so long.
FYI, after FOUR Caminos, this time my rucksack was FINALLY down to 23 pounds / 10 kilos. This is less than my starting "naked" (eeeeuw!) weight of 246 pounds, or 112 kilos.
Talk about irony. It took me four Camino efforts over as many years, as Ivar can attest by my "down the road" shipments to him each year, to lighten my load. Each year, I struggled to shave every ounce and gram, spending money on the lightest quality gear money could buy. In the process, continually proved Albert Einstein's theorem about insanity...repeating the same rucksack loading experiment, while somehow thinking it would, somehow, trick the scale...
Karma being what it is, Nate & Faith will receive all my earlier "test objects" when I bring them to the Pilgrim House donativo in July. Nate and I spoke in April, and they are willing to take all my "surplus to requirements" Camino stuff off my hands. As I will work as a Voluntario through the Feast of Santiago, and for some weeks thereafter, checking a second bag through to Santiago is the easiest solution. It is time to pare back and give back...
After I had to quit at Sarria in April from the discomfort and pain, I am reassessing how best to continue to do a Camino as long as I can stand. It does not affect my ability to volunteer at Santiago each year, but it does affect walking a Camino.
Both the Correos and the commercial mochila services offer very viable alternatives for assistance with mochilas. I will work them into my future plans. As I typically do not stay in albergues, I should mot have problems arriving "assisted" by the mochila service.
On the plus side, I can now board most airlines sooner as a person needing extra time to board, as I must use a cane some days...in case one of my knees decides to go one way, when I want to go the other way.
Still and all, while getting old can be a bit$h, it sure beats the alternative of NOT living longer to get older...
Thanks again.
Here are some products we useHi courage
after my knee surgery the surgeon told me that if I continue being fat I would need a artificial knee in a couple of years. He was built like an ox and not all muscle to put it kindly. So mentally I gestured what is sure not ladylike and smiled and thought I show you I will finish my almost 3000 km Camino and my VdlP and then we see about who gets what and when. There was a study done in the late 80 about hip athrosis and showing with mobility under pain management, they did it with extreme cooling, walking ability returned and pain level decrease.
For pain manegement have you used. TENS unit ? It decreased my pain medication to nearly 0.
Old findings are too that more muscle capability less stress on your joints, of course work those quats maybe with a therapist smart. Walking with sticks ok and if needed transferring your bag ok.
come he’ll or high water Camino we come as soon you know...
Sorry got a bit side tracked.
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