I had bed bugs once just before Pamplona, and as it was summer, I put everything in a large black trash bag , inflated it somewhat and tied the opening and left it in the hot sun for an hour. It worked and I did not have another problem . But I...
This thread will win the "Dumbest Question Ever Award 2024", but at the risk of definitively ruining my reputation here, I ask it anyway.
The problem is that I need my reading glasses promptly available all the time: to read maps, to look at my...
A story published in the Guardian with some pretty interesting results from Santiago:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/13/bones-spain-santiago-de-compostela-bishop-teodomiro
It turns out some stories about Santiago have been...
I highly recommended the Wise Pilgrim App, free version from the app store. Then choose your route and it shows you all the albergues and accommodations in each village and how to reserve, it also shows distance between. Top right corner and it...
Wise Pilgrim is great because it has a feature to contact the albergues via WhatsApp and composes a message for you in Spanish (or Portuguese or French depending on location).
Here's a post I made earlier this year about how to use the feature...
Like you, I live in a Delta hub city (Detroit), so I prefer to fly them. They don't have any partners that fly out of Santiago, so if you want to fly Delta, you'll need to use another airline for the first leg from SdC.
For my upcoming Camino...
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