I honestly wish that I'd worried a bit more about my footwear. I bought a pair of low ankle boots, thought I'd broken them in enough, but by Puente la Reina, my heels looked like raw meat. Thankfully, there was Caminoteca back in Pamplona...
The ascent profile of O Cebreiro looked terrifyingly steep to me, so I worried for a couple of weeks about my ability to climb the hill. In the end, it was fine and I loved it.
What should you worry about? I never realised how addictive Camino...
Pack weight.
Weighing everything to the gram and changing equipment because another option was 50 grams lighter. I did this before my first camino obsessively and it was pointless. I did what most pilgrims do and took minimal clothing and spent...
I always encounter at least one epic snorer. Some years several. Sadly many of them have the dangerous kind of snoring with sleep apnea.
Last year there was a another lively thread about someone who was very upset about being shaken awake in the...
My husband is a snorer. A very, very loud snorer. We learned after our first Camino experience to book private rooms unless there is absolutely nothing available.
Having said that, I have been sleeping with a snorer for 40 years. The first 18 or...
Maybe people should need to submit to a month-long sleep evaluation in order to get a credencial and use albergues. The Cathedral would set the standards, administer the program, and recover the cost from, well, someone. Alternatively, if...
Bingo!...works for me. I also never hear the early riser bag rufflers and am surprised when I finally wake up and take my ear plugs out, how noisy the room actually is by then with everyone rushing around, packing up.
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