Martin Moorman
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- 30 March 2017
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Good Evening Camino-ties, greetings from Halifax UK. My two boys and I set off on the Camino Frances 3 weeks tomorrow! We are buzzing!
Previously before Christmas members on this forum helpfully reassured me that we would do well to get lost, hostels did not need prebooking and we could have a reasonable expectation of successfully walking the CF in 30 days of walking. My next BIG question is:
Do we carry loo roll?
Unimportant in your world maybe, but vital in mine. In the Special Education world in which I work, planning for toilets is vital! Please can you advise?
Thanks
Martin
That was my plan. Thanks Davey. Good advice thanks, as you never knowYes I always carry some. First, you never know when you get caught short. And it has been known for pilgrims to steal the toilet roll from cafes and albergues. Many mornings I have woken up to find all the toilet roll gone! If you do toilet in nature please please take your used toilet roll with you in a bag to dispose of properly!
Davey
Do we carry loo roll?
Danger I burn mine but we don't want that topic going crazy. Forget the word burn.....Pocket tissues. Then they are always in your pocket. Because it is when you least expect it that you find there is no loo paper. But never, ever, ever, leave tissues or toilet paper behind on the trail.
Cher, Is this the kind of new thread question you feel belongs elsewhere?Yes I carry TP. Not only for trail stops but also because the public establishments often don't have any by the time I get there.
Wow, Jill, I wish I had your bladder!For goodness sake, what a question! You must always take a toilet roll. I have never ever needed it; I pack it at the beginning; I unpack it when I get home; but there may be, one day, a “just in case”.
TAKE IT!
Jill
Hey-up Martin, oap this 'elps, yorwkshire lad ;-) I know where you're coming from with this one. I'm going against the grain here - I've never taken a roll (shock-horror!) I find them too cumbersome, get easily wet and in the way in the old pack, and easily forgotten somewhere. My recommendation is small packs of good tissues - I keep one or two packs tucked into in my trousers/shorts/jacket, a couple in the pack and one with my toiletries. I've never been caught-short, forgotten to take some to the loo or bathroom, and they're easy to replace in the local shops, and always there for a runny nose. But find your comfort zone! If you're in a group maybe mix-'n-match. Good luck! Buen CaminoGood Evening Camino-ties, greetings from Halifax UK. My two boys and I set off on the Camino Frances 3 weeks tomorrow! We are buzzing!
Previously before Christmas members on this forum helpfully reassured me that we would do well to get lost, hostels did not need prebooking and we could have a reasonable expectation of successfully walking the CF in 30 days of walking. My next BIG question is:
Do we carry loo roll?
Unimportant in your world maybe, but vital in mine. In the Special Education world in which I work, planning for toilets is vital! Please can you advise?
Thanks
Martin
Good Evening Camino-ties, greetings from Halifax UK. My two boys and I set off on the Camino Frances 3 weeks tomorrow! We are buzzing!
Previously before Christmas members on this forum helpfully reassured me that we would do well to get lost, hostels did not need prebooking and we could have a reasonable expectation of successfully walking the CF in 30 days of walking. My next BIG question is:
Do we carry loo roll?
Unimportant in your world maybe, but vital in mine. In the Special Education world in which I work, planning for toilets is vital! Please can you advise?
Thanks
Martin
Very small. not likely I will use it, but just in case... I have only needed it once on a long strecth on the VdlP, But I always carry it though.You guys surely don't carry a whole roll, do you?! I carry a small amount - the end of a roll, squished flat so it is only about 1 cm thick.
I've never needed it either...guess I have "long distance tanks". I don't carry it for this reason, and I've never actually been in a situation where it's missing or run out either. Sounds like I've just been very lucky...For goodness sake, what a question! You must always take a toilet roll. I have never ever needed it; I pack it at the beginning; I unpack it when I get home; but there may be, one day, a “just in case”.
TAKE IT!
Jill
Don't worry Jill. It's on the spare bed along with the other essentials! Dock leaves don't appeal!For goodness sake, what a question! You must always take a toilet roll. I have never ever needed it; I pack it at the beginning; I unpack it when I get home; but there may be, one day, a “just in case”.
TAKE IT!
Jill
Thanks for the advice . That reply certainly made me smile. It deserved a double like actually! I will be happy to be the Perfect Pilgrim and pledge not to be a nicker of bog roll, but rather a joyful giver!So, there you are. You got up much to early this morning and you had all sorts of stuff to deal with. Sorting out your sons; making sure everybody had washed their faces and cleaned their teeth and done the necessaries and hadn't left anything on, in or near their bunk. Then you checked out the weather outside and the chances of breakfast sometime before lunchtime and had anybody left anything on, in or near their bunk. And then you set out in, hopefully, the right direction and somewhere down the road you find that perfect (open) bar and you order that perfect cafe-con-leche and then you remember that you have needs too. And you head for the necessaries: and you discover that the low-life, scum-bag, un-pilgrim in front of you stole the loo-roll...
Yes. You carry loo-roll on the camino. If only to pass a few pages to a fellow peregrin@ in need
I'll tip you off after our CaminoI've never thought to carry one, and don't.
Alternate realities.
[Edit...and now I find myself wondering....should I?]
Nice one Ralph. I have managed to avoid the Yorkshire lilt, though 'Arry and Jaaaaaaaake from 'Alifax are pretty proud to be from Yaaaaarskshire.....and thus talk like it!Hey-up Martin, oap this 'elps, yorwkshire lad ;-) I know where you're coming from with this one. I'm going against the grain here - I've never taken a roll (shock-horror!) I find them too cumbersome, get easily wet and in the way in the old pack, and easily forgotten somewhere. My recommendation is small packs of good tissues - I keep one or two packs tucked into in my trousers/shorts/jacket, a couple in the pack and one with my toiletries. I've never been caught-short, forgotten to take some to the loo or bathroom, and they're easy to replace in the local shops, and always there for a runny nose. But find your comfort zone! If you're in a group maybe mix-'n-match. Good luck! Buen Camino
For the information of everyone, I just weighed a cardboard tube, and found that it weighs all of 5 g.with the cardboard tube removed
Useful info for those concerned.For the information of everyone, I just weighed a cardboard tube, and found that it weighs all of 5 g.
Yes you have been!I've never needed it either...guess I have "long distance tanks". I don't carry it for this reason, and I've never actually been in a situation where it's missing or run out either. Sounds like I've just been very lucky...
Have you ever wiped your bum with leaves and grass ?
It's hardly Gympie Gympie but I know someone who had an 'interesting' time of it between Triacastella and Samos...wandering behind a tree and squatting in a nice lush patch of nettles. (She came from a place where there were none...Luckily in Spain we don't have the leafy hazards from your neck of the woods
I carried light weight dog poop bags with me for that very purpose! Yes, both TP and something to carry the used TP in.Yes I always carry some. First, you never know when you get caught short. And it has been known for pilgrims to steal the toilet roll from cafes and albergues. Many mornings I have woken up to find all the toilet roll gone! If you do toilet in nature please please take your used toilet roll with you in a bag to dispose of properly!
Davey
Camper's toilet paper. The package at Wal-Mart includes 3 rolls (solid, not cored) and a lovely plastic clamshell. If you bought "Charmin to Go" back when it was available, you may still have that clamshell. The clamshell fits into the belly bag with room for the regular-sized water bottle as well...nose of bottle sticks out but that's okay. (I put my credencial and my PP in a separate zippered pocket on the same device. That way nothing important gets left behind, as the pouch is on me when I enter the bathroom or the albergue or anywhere else in fact. Like the Marine Museum in Madrid, where you have to show ID to enter as it's in a government building.) If you look at the place you shop for camping supplies you should find it.Good Evening Camino-ties, greetings from Halifax UK. My two boys and I set off on the Camino Frances 3 weeks tomorrow! We are buzzing!
Previously before Christmas members on this forum helpfully reassured me that we would do well to get lost, hostels did not need prebooking and we could have a reasonable expectation of successfully walking the CF in 30 days of walking. My next BIG question is:
Do we carry loo roll?
Unimportant in your world maybe, but vital in mine. In the Special Education world in which I work, planning for toilets is vital! Please can you advise?
Thanks
Martin
...butt think of all that air!For the information of everyone, I just weighed a cardboard tube, and found that it weighs all of 5 g.
I carry a couple of packages of those 'kleenex' for your purse - have for many years because when you need it you need it and it isn't always available.Good Evening Camino-ties, greetings from Halifax UK. My two boys and I set off on the Camino Frances 3 weeks tomorrow! We are buzzing!
Previously before Christmas members on this forum helpfully reassured me that we would do well to get lost, hostels did not need prebooking and we could have a reasonable expectation of successfully walking the CF in 30 days of walking. My next BIG question is:
Do we carry loo roll?
Unimportant in your world maybe, but vital in mine. In the Special Education world in which I work, planning for toilets is vital! Please can you advise?
Thanks
Martin
Hey, a 40 liter pack can contain up to 49 grams of air!...butt think of all that air!
(reference to a poster on here who insisted that if you rolled your clothes to exclude air that they would end up 'lighter'!)
That pun was intentional, wasn't it?...butt think of all that air!
Me too Jill. In fact the roll is probably 10 years old but has become an old friend I carry on every trek. Crazy I know but it has come in handy for others from time to time.For goodness sake, what a question! You must always take a toilet roll. I have never ever needed it; I pack it at the beginning; I unpack it when I get home; but there may be, one day, a “just in case”.
TAKE IT!
Jill
NOT if you suck it out with a vacuum attachment before you leave home! This is clinically proven by worldwide airport authorities!!!Hey, a 40 liter pack can contain up to 49 grams of air!
Should I pack a ten year old roll of TP, it would be at the bottom of my pack and the butt of many jokes. Maybe it would be better in my 'fannypack'? (bumbag for the non Americans)Me too Jill. In fact the roll is probably 10 years old but has become an old friend I carry on every trek. Crazy I know but it has come in handy for others from time to time.
Happy trails
Tiggers don't like haycorns and prefer the term 'whimsical' to 'naughty'!@C clearly as it was @Tigger, it definitely would have been intended. She's a bit naughty, always has been.
So, there you are. You got up much to early this morning and you had all sorts of stuff to deal with. Sorting out your sons; making sure everybody had washed their faces and cleaned their teeth and done the necessaries and hadn't left anything on, in or near their bunk. Then you checked out the weather outside and the chances of breakfast sometime before lunchtime and had anybody left anything on, in or near their bunk. And then you set out in, hopefully, the right direction and somewhere down the road you find that perfect (open) bar and you order that perfect cafe-con-leche and then you remember that you have needs too. And you head for the necessaries: and you discover that the low-life, scum-bag, un-pilgrim in front of you stole the loo-roll...
Yes. You carry loo-roll on the camino. If only to pass a few pages to a fellow peregrin@ in need
Take it! I haven't read all the other replies, but when you are walking and waiting anxiously for the next coffee stop to use the servicios, and you walk into the bathroom and the toilet paper is gone.... you will be so happy you brought some.Good Evening Camino-ties, greetings from Halifax UK. My two boys and I set off on the Camino Frances 3 weeks tomorrow! We are buzzing!
Previously before Christmas members on this forum helpfully reassured me that we would do well to get lost, hostels did not need prebooking and we could have a reasonable expectation of successfully walking the CF in 30 days of walking. My next BIG question is:
Do we carry loo roll?
Unimportant in your world maybe, but vital in mine. In the Special Education world in which I work, planning for toilets is vital! Please can you advise?
Thanks
Martin
Another great thing about those big pockets on the Macabi skirt.Following the gist of Imsundaze's
perceptive comment be sure that the tp is either in your pocket or money bag and not packed in your backpack left outside. Be prepared!
I think the purple would be the worst, owing to the amount of purple people eating rampant on the Camino. Perhaps I am being a little one eyed on this, however!Yes. Each of you should carry one of these. Then you all know who is not carrying their paper out.
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But think where the yellow leads you.I think the purple would be the worst, owing to the amount of purple people eating rampant on the Camino. Perhaps I am being a little one eyed on this, however!
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