I can't imagine spraying my sleeping bag or any other personal item with toxic spray (some people do use permethrin). Maybe I have been lucky but I've walked more than 20 Caminos over the past 14 years and I have never had an incident with...
I don't understand how people think that unpacking backpacks in one room and sending the sleeping bags and clothes to another room can help in any way. Bedbugs are attracted to the sleeping people in their bed clothes. If the bugs come and bite...
Please don't spray toxic stuff in albergues. You can cause your allergic fellow pilgrim to suffocate and die.
Bring a pet cockroach with you on the road. Or a gecko. They feed on bedbugs and are much faster than them. Environmentally friendly...
Oviedo to Santuario de Covadonga.
There is an old thread from 2014 on the Forum.
I am interested in this route and have been unsuccessful in finding details and lodging.
I wrote to the Asturias tourism & Culture board and this was their very...
Here is a lavender field beside the Ermita de San Blas, just before Cifuentes. The photo was taken on May 29, so the field would have been in peak bloom a couple of weeks later.
@C clearly and I saw fields of lavender last year on our walk on the Lana. (We also saw fields of purple with purple flower cover crops, but some were lavender). Today I saw an article about the town of Brihuega, about 30 km from the town of...
I heard an interesting clip on a US news program about a newly released recording of Paco de Lucía playing with his brother. These recordings were made when the brothers were 11 and 13 years old! Somehow they were lost and somehow they were...
Sure! why not!
Druids, gnomes, leprechauns, Ghosts of the Xmas past and even Future and let us not forget The Shadow Pilgrim and Vákner
Itsd My Camino! I meet (and walk with) who I want 😁
Search these threads...several posters walked in Oct last year, and I think 1 in Nov.
Use Gronze for accommodations, but call the day before first. Gronze is only as good as the updates it gets. Many spots close in Oct, including smaller shops...
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