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    Separate Via Francigena forum?

    Ivar started a new forum just for via francigena... https://www.viafrancigena.me Check it out!
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    Accommodations on Via Francigena?

    I also have a question about camping in Italy... How much are the official camp grounds a night? Are there alot of official campgrounds along the path? Or are they pretty far apart? How does one work out the "camping in a garden" and access to the facilities? Do you just ask the hostel or...
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    Via Francigena

    I am very interested in your experience last spring. I hope to walk the italian portion spring 2016. I have a few basic questions: 1. How expensive are the pilgrim accomodations? From what i've read i plan to take a tent and camp quite alot... Due to fewer accommodations and $$ they cost...
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    My camino blog.. May 15-June 24

    Before I started my camino I loved reading about experiences of others. Taking down notes etc. I am walking now... Finding it hard to keep up on the blog, but I try to go back and fill in gaps when time permits. For anyone interested in my blog: blog.travelpod.com/members/ellenzimmer Let me...
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    Starting Late May 2014 in SJPP

    Where in pa? I am starting with my family on may 12th from erie pa to begin walking on may 17th from sjpdp. This year i turn 50 and this sounded much better than a birthday party!
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    Transferring photos from camera card to iphone 4

    Thanks for all the replies, i have many sd cards but hoped to upload photos to the cloud and to my blog as i walked. I will have to check on the wifi card mentioned. Has anyone had experience at any of the internet cafes along the way... Or any computers in the hostels? I am amazed that...
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    Transferring photos from camera card to iphone 4

    I thought this would be an easy technology puzzle and i would find a device similar to the ipad card reader to do this... But alas, i have found little reliable information of how to do this. I will take pictures with my camera(much better pictures), then my plan was to use my iphone 4 to copy...
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    Camino Frances May 2014

    Wow - just reading through all the threads that have been added relating to Pennsylvania. Hoping that the weather in Spain will play nicer than it has for us up in Erie this year! Someone mentioned Little League baseball in Williamsport - my Great Uncle Tuck (Carl Stotz) actually is the one...
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    Bed Bugs - permethrin

    I also received similar information from my local exterminator that basically only thought the chemicals killed the bugs on contact and had very little residual effect from a surface being sprayed. I don't care about killing them, i just dont want them walking onto my bed and down into my...
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    Sending boxes of supplies

    Laurie, Wow, that is a great idea! I was trying to shoot for a town I hoped to arrive on Wed (therefore 2 days early or late I was still OK)... but this is a better idea. Are hostels pretty good about moving a reservation forward or backward if needed? In other words, are there penalties or...
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    Sending boxes of supplies

    I was going to prepare the boxes, taped up, labeled and ready to go when i arrive in madrid. A previous posted suggested that i purchase the boxes at the post office... Is this the preferred practice in Spain? My boxes would be just brown cardboard with no advertisements on the outside, just...
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    Bed Bugs - permethrin

    I had posted the above post a few days ago and wondered if anyone had advice about the various chemicals available for purchase. If you have any knowledge or found/heard one works better on bedbugs than the other, please please let me know! Thanks!
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    Not that I'm concerned but how many got bit by BED BUGS on the Camino

    This is all such great info! T2Andr, you rock for finding out the locations to purchase whats sounds like a miracle spray! I plan to mix up one spray of the lavender, tea tree oil and then purchase the other in SJPdP... There are four of us traveling together, so the two will come in handy if...
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    Not that I'm concerned but how many got bit by BED BUGS on the Camino

    I have read it a few times now that most seem to pack their pack in something to check it at the airport. I will be doing this on the return home but thought i could just check the pack as is... Now i thinking i have to buy something to go on the outside? Where are people getting these items...
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    Traveling to the camino from the us

    I am just flying delta... I did my searches via travelocity and orbitz... Over a few weeks so i could see how much they fluxuated. Not sure when you are flying or if you are flying into madrid or paris, those seem the most popular targets. Then bus or train and or taxi to SJPdP. My flight...
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