Setting to one side the practical issues of having a dog with you on Camino - not least of which is accommodation, I wouldn’t put my dog through a crated transatlantic flight unless I was relocating permanently.
My dog is fully inoculated...
Hi, I don't think this is a good idea. Do you know what the quarantine requirements are, or if you are even permitted to take your dog into Spain and bring it home again afterward? While there are dogs on the Camino and most other pilgrims...
I take it, but only use it when absolutely necessary - it's pretty much a camera with a phone available for emergencies. I usually call accommodations direct (phone numbers in my Brierley) if I want/need to reserve.
It's got all my travel...
During my first caminos my husband and I communicated when necessary by land-line telephone; since 2008 I carried a smartphone which also served as camera+computer on which I wrote my daily blogs then using Blogspot
Since we both were then in...
How about just deleting the apps in bold? Then you remove those distractions but can still take advantage of the other smartphone benefits you mentioned.
Hola @CaminoKevin.
Yes. I've walked as a pilgrim without a Smartphone: across Europe and Spain, in the Holy Land and some other places. Thousands of kilometers at a time on established, mostly signed trails. I used paper maps, guide books and...
Hi, I am 56 and completed the Camino Frances ‘alone’. I wasn’t at all sure what to expect, but it really was a wonderful experience. I actually found that I was never ‘alone’ unless I chose to be (or was walking too fast!) - and something that I...
I think the key point of the request may have been forgotten - it is about the head sweating when wearing a sun hat -
well, all solid material hats, whatever style or brand will make the head sweat as with the snug headband all round the head...
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