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    Any Guardia Civil will tell you it is best to walk on the left, facing traffic. Of course in some mountain roads with scary drop offs this might be less advisable.
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    Has anyone tried refusing disposable sheets in albergues? (Or thought about it?) Eucalyptus isn't native to Spain and growing eucalyptus requires a lot of water and wrecks the soil for indigenous trees in Galicia. Eucalyptus forests are also a...
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    No. That's disgusting, because those liners are there for a reason. If you refuse them, you're adding a night's-worth of your sweat and sebum and skin flecks on the mattress. Thanks a lot.
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    dbeatriceb replied to the thread Crampons in Carry-on.
    Correction: …would NOT help in the mud…”
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    dbeatriceb replied to the thread Crampons in Carry-on.
    Unless you’re going in the dead of winter, maybe only on the Primitivo but still I doubt it, crampons will only be an unnecessary burden. The caminos sre not a wilderness hike. People do the Camino in wheelchairs and on crutches. There may be...
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    dbeatriceb replied to the thread Money on the Camino.
    Luggage transfers: someone at your place of lodging can help arrange this each day as needed. Correos does luggage transfer and Jacotrans also has luggage transfer services. You might want to check to see if there are size restrictions. It is...
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    dbeatriceb reacted to JenCook's post in the thread Money on the Camino with Like Like.
    Ok great thank you for that, can I ask if you have any names for the luggage transfers, thanks
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    Good idea to dump some of that pack weight! We loved this Camino. We left from Alicante a few years ago and picked up the Levante where they intersect. I think we saw maybe one other pilgrim along the way before we got to Zamora. We met many...
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    Buen camino and welcome, @GingerRob. I walked the Levante about ten years ago and met two other pilgrims on Day 4. We walked into Santiago together weeks later. I think we met three French pilgrims one day and a couple of bicigrinos another but...
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    Weather could be a challenge. But you might not mind whatever the weather has in mind. A bigger problem I could imagine would be difficulty in finding lodging. Best to research whether albergues are even open during the Christmas holidays. Also...

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