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Storing luggage for the Camino walk

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brycedavues

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Hi all. I am walking the Camino Frances from Saint Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela in September. My question is, on arrival in Madrid from Australia, I will have luggage that I would like to either store in Madrid or get sent from Saint Jean Pied de Port to the end of the walk. Does anyone have some helpful advice on the best way to store or transfer luggage?
 
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Ideal sleeping bag liner whether we want to add a thermal plus to our bag, or if we want to use it alone to sleep in shelters or hostels. Thanks to its mummy shape, it adapts perfectly to our body.

€46,-
David Tallan said:
Just a note that if you are sending to Santiago (for example to Casa Ivar), it may be much easier to send from Madrid than from St. Jean Pied de Port, as that will all be within one country.
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Yes, I would only send to Ivar from within Spain.
I'm sure that most packages sent from France or other EU countries arrive with no problems, but if there is a problem you likely will have each government post office blaming the other, which usually doesn't help find your lost parcel or luggage!
 

in madrid
- https://casaivar.com/luggage-storage-in-santiago-de-compostela/
- https://www.elcaminoconcorreos.com/en/transfer-luggage

in Saint Jean Pied de Port
- https://casaivar.com/luggage-storage-in-santiago-de-compostela/
- https://www.elcaminoconcorreos.com/en/transfer-luggage
- https://www.expressbourricot.com/luggage-transport/
 
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David Tallan said:
I'm not sure how applicable that second link, to the Spanish Postal Service, will be from Saint Jean Pied de Port. Presumably, if you are posting your luggage from there you would need to use the French Postal Service.
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you're right.
If you want to store your luggage at the Santiago Post Office, you must send it from a post office within Spain.
 
A question: I will hike the Camino Frances from SJPdP to Santiago and intend to ship my non-hiking luggage to Santiago through Express Bourricot. My wife will join me after the Camino for a few weeks of visiting friends in Italy and Germany. Then we will go to the Rotary International convention in Singapore before going home in the US. That leaves me with the options of transporting my backpack around the globe with us or shipping it back to the US from Santiago. Are there any services that are recommended for shipping a backpack to the US from Santiago?
 
I would probably use the post office - Correos, but it's a good question for @ivar since he ships internationally all the time using services like DHL.
 
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