Luggage transfer

[Eskomntom]

We plan to stay in Santiago a few days after finishing our Camino and my wife will prefer fresh clothes. Is it possible to ship a carry on size bag from Pamploma ( our start point) to Santiago and pick it up 35 days later when we finish?

 

[Corned Beef]

See Correos Paq Peregrino (45 days storage) which goes to their office just down from the Cathedral

Send luggage along the Camino de Santiago

With Correos you can send your luggage to any point on the Camino de Santiago with the Paq Peregrino.

www.elcaminoconcorreos.com

Or use Ivar's service as detailed on here.

 

[trecile]

Here's the information about sending it to @ivar

Send your luggage to Santiago, we will store it for you (2024)

Send your luggage to me in Santiago de Compostela

casaivar.com

 

[CWBuff]

or forget about shipping a pack and just let her buy new outfit (or 2) in Santiago
I am sure she wont object

 

[SabsP]

We plan to stay in Santiago a few days after finishing our Camino and my wife will prefer fresh clothes. Is it possible to ship a carry on size bag from Pamploma ( our start point) to Santiago and pick it up 35 days later when we finish?

Or walk into a Zara or Massimo Dutti when in Santiago and buy something new?
The price for sending the bag and price new clothes might be quite the same.

 

[SabsP]

or forget about shipping a pack and just let her buy new outfit (or 2) in Santiago
I am sure she wont object

I know you mean this jokingly but she is perfectly capable of buying her own clothes and she does not need anyone else " let her ". Maybe even three outfits.
Plus could be the OP also likes some new clothes.

Happy preparations @Eskomntom !

 

[trecile]

or forget about shipping a pack and just let her buy new outfit (or 2) in Santiago
I am sure she wont object

Personally, I don't want to spend hours having to shop for clothes while I'm traveling.

 

[SabsP]

Personally, I don't want to spend hours having to shop for clothes while I'm traveling.

Also not when finished in Santiago?
I am not a big shopper either but love to buy a nice shirt / scarf or one of the quality Spanish shoebrands ( that are so much more costly in my country ).

 

[Eskomntom]

Thanks all, ya, guessing I will tell her to go buy whatever she wants. Saves the hassle !

 

[CWBuff]

I know you mean this jokingly but she is perfectly capable of buying her own clothes and she does not need anyone else " let her ". Maybe even three outfits.

Yup jokingly but at the same, I was thinking in a way of "current discussion" (if you will as part of the planning), i.e. "Why don't we just throw some of the outfits into a bag and ship it to Santiago...or... hmmm. maybe we could buy some there". No innuendo of actually "letting her" (as in asking permissions or the like) were intended. simply "telling" in the course of conversation

Thanks all, ya, guessing I will tell her to go buy whatever she wants. Saves the hassle !

And there ya have it folks!

 

[trecile]

Also not when finished in Santiago?
I am not a big shopper either but love to buy a nice shirt / scarf or one of the quality Spanish shoebrands ( that are so much more costly in my country ).

Sure, if I happen to see a shirt or scarf that I like I'll buy it, but I don't want to have to go shopping for clothes.
I love picking up my suitcase from Ivar and being reunited with some of my favorite clothes plus other non-pilgrim items.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I never bring a suitcase on Camino, even if I have more time to check it in at the airport on the way back home as I dislike the mob scene at the carousels.
I enjoy looking in many of the shops in Santiago after my Camino is finished when I finally have time to relax the following day. I mostly buy jewelry, a scarf or a shirt. I never shop for clothes or new shoes on my Caminos.

 

[Tincatinker]

I’ve plied this joke previously but it remains current. My good friend “Goblets”, a Portuguese from the one of the edgier quarters of Lisbon. Out where the taxi drivers want cash up front.

Anyway, Goblets started working at the Polygon somewhere around 1980. My mum took a shine to him. One of the best in the wash-up she said. He got promoted to bus-boy after a while. When mum was doing the “private” dining for assorted prime ministers, Hollywood stars and minor royals she always wanted Goblets pushing the trolley. Apparently he was always where she wanted him, exactly when she wanted him and had faded into the background before anyone had ever noticed. Even Margaret Thatcher didn’t notice him and she was as sharp as Blackthorn.

Any ways, Goblets got offered another uplift: Waiter, in the dining room. Mum watched as his comrades started his training. They offered “always pull back the chair for the lady and say “park your arse missus””. Mum’s left-hook was famous: Goblets tormentor wore his black-eye with a sort of pride.

So, Goblets came up with one of my favourite jokes. He had progressed from wash-up to bus-boy to waiter to Head Waiter. He ran the dining room with a brutal, and profitable, gentility that any manager could aspire to but most will never achieve.

So, contributing to a discussion on equalities, sharing and suchlike he said: “me and my wife we share… if she wants a new Dress she buys a new Dress; if I want a new car I buy new car.” You needed to be there to see the wink.