What do people do with their bags once they get to an albergue and want to look around the town? How do you secure it and try to avoid it from being stolen or gone through? Do you bring locks, lock it to the bed and lock pockets shut?
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Nope. I carry my valuables, my money and my ID documents with me at all times - even to the showers and the toilets. If anyone wants my battered pack, sweaty sleep-sack, yesterday's socks and that half-eaten bocadillo, well, they're welcome.
Ehhh, I just put almost everything out of it and lay it on my bunk and go for a beer. Who cares...What do people do with their bags once they get to an albergue and want to look around the town? How do you secure it and try to avoid it from being stolen or gone through? Do you bring locks, lock it to the bed and lock pockets shut?
Totally agree with Tink always have your valuables with you. Leave your jewellery at homeWhat do people do with their bags once they get to an albergue and want to look around the town? How do you secure it and try to avoid it from being stolen or gone through? Do you bring locks, lock it to the bed and lock pockets shut?
Who cares if you're an American. OMG I can't believe you said that. I am a proud American, sorry you feel differently. Fanny pack all the way for me!!! WooHoo, crazy American on the Camino, look out. LOL hahahahaha LOLI do not recommend you use a fanny pack for two reasons. The first is that wearing one silently marks you as an American.
What do people do with their bags once they get to an albergue and want to look around the town? How do you secure it and try to avoid it from being stolen or gone through? Do you bring locks, lock it to the bed and lock pockets shut?
I stayed in a long-established albergue in Santiago a few years back. Stuff was stolen while people slept, but more to the point, lockers were also broken into and the contents pilfered. I concur that keeping valuables about your person is the best method.I agree with Tinca as well. Actually, I think that having locks on your pack will just make it more of a target. And slicing open a backpack hunting for those locked-up valuables may sound extreme, but since the average unlocked pack contains the items Tinca described, it would be the one to go for.
Some albergues now have lockers, but I rarely see them used by more than a few.
Absolutely never put your backpack on your bed. At the albergue in Ponferrada the hospitaleros saw backpacks on two bunks in my room and took them. When the owners of the backpacks returned they got a stern talking to about not putting backpacks on the beds.And as a bonus I’ll suggest what NOT to do with your pack: put it ON the bed.
What do people do with their bags once they get to an albergue and want to look around the town? How do you secure it and try to avoid it from being stolen or gone through? Do you bring locks, lock it to the bed and lock pockets shut?
What do people do with their bags once they get to an albergue and want to look around the town? How do you secure it and try to avoid it from being stolen or gone through? Do you bring locks, lock it to the bed and lock pockets shut?
After being on the Camino for a few days you will find the only things (or possessions) that are truly valuable is your passport, your pilgrim’s credential, your cell phone, your credit cards, and your money.
Protecting these valuables is extremely easy: they never leave the cargo pockets on your hiking pants.
I do not recommend you use a fanny pack for two reasons. The first is that wearing one silently marks you as an American.
The second is that a fanny pack can be easily left behind. While I’ve encountered pilgrims frantically running backwards up the Camino to retrieve their fanny pack from the hook on the door of the last toilet they used, I’ve never encountered a pilgrim frantically running backwards up the Camino in their underwear because they left their pants behind.
Nope. I carry my valuables, my money and my ID documents with me at all times - even to the showers and the toilets. If anyone wants my battered pack, sweaty sleep-sack, yesterday's socks and that half-eaten bocadillo, well, they're welcome.
I’m an Aussie and we call them bum bags. Used 1 all the time for valuables and never left behind. It went under the pillow of a night. Your jack will be safe
Just don’t leave it on the bed or a chair. Take your valuables with you... deadset easyWhat do people do with their bags once they get to an albergue and want to look around the town? How do you secure it and try to avoid it from being stolen or gone through? Do you bring locks, lock it to the bed and lock pockets shut?
Just don’t leave it on the bed or a chair. Take your valuables with you... deadset easy
Albergue rules boots on boot rack no backpacks on the bed!Another agreeing with Tinca here. And as a bonus I’ll suggest what NOT to do with your pack: put it ON the bed.
If you snake the ribbon through the laces of both boots not only do you identify them as yours but you can tie them together so your boots don't get separated.Another tip is to tie a ribbon or in some manner put an identifying mark on your shoes.
The only thing that ever went missing on one of our walks was a pair of my wife's panties off of the clothes line, easily replaceable.