brawblether
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- June/Jul 2012; Feb 2014
What are your tips and recommendations for walking on rainy days on the Camino Frances for those in trainers?
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In October 2010, we sloshed our way into Santiago, having experienced days of continual rain. My so called "waterproof" Merrells just couldn't cope (please don't anyone say - well get some with goretex, here in Costa Rica, you buy what is available, and be happy with it). In other words, choice is very limited)! Newspaper packed into the boots once in the Albergue, worked fantastically, changing the newspaper later in the evening if necessary. The boots were always dry in the morning. I never had a blister. By the way, these boots had already done the complete Camino from Roncesvalles to Santiago the previous year - and they did it again this year! I would certainly recommend Merrells (sounds like an advert)! Annegrayland said:Just another reminder (as we always do at some point) that stuffing newspaper into your wet boots will do wonders to dry them overnight. In rainy weather I keep an eye out for spare newspapers and use them at night.
If possible and shoes are real wet..change to fresh newspaper after a while.