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Exactly. Personally, I don’t mind tarmac, it’s traffic that I dislike. Not just the danger, but the noise, and the tedium of breaking stride to get out of the way and all that.
I also found, this morning, that the route maps from Camino Ways...
The Buen Camino app shows how many kms if each stage are on paved roads and how many are on trails. You can see this on each stage like this:
I also created a "stage" that covers the entire Camino Francés. It shows 292.53 km that is paved...
Basically as I understand it, the exterior of the pack is not waterproof, it's the built-in dry bag that is - hence the exterior gets soaking wet and adds significant weight. You are correct in that a packcover would help avoid that.
As somebody...
Not sure my email had a phone number, but I'd never call as all my reservations are in Spain and I do not speak Spanish. When needed, I always send a message through booking.com, and translate their replies. It has worked very well.
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