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  1. Treskelion

    Sleeping bag OR just a liner??

    A week ahead of my efforts, might catch up by Estella if you are walking (following my steps planned from Dax). I have a rectangular buttoned quilt being a side sleeper I can’t abide the Mummy suit that most sleeping bags resemble … I’ll try it in the camping car first before committing 😂 Safe...
  2. Treskelion

    E-bike users now excluded from receiving a Compostela

    Hi Barbara, Sounds like you have this camino side licked 👏 Both our sons went to Poitiers Uni, No 2 is finishing his 3rd year in computer engineering (and considering another 2) … No1 fled back to the (pub)life in the UK 😂, No2 prefers the French lifestyle (but then he was born here). We...
  3. Treskelion

    E-bike users now excluded from receiving a Compostela

    Have you looked at the EV3 route across Spain? I do not intend to take my trike on shared trails narrower than 2m, so that I don’t inconvenience other users of the shared trail; I’ll use the EV3 if it is close-by otherwise I’ll use the quieter roads (it helps that the motorway has taken a lot of...
  4. Treskelion

    E-bike users now excluded from receiving a Compostela

    Hi, What you’re doing is wonderful, just listen to those that are helpful (and there are many caring people on this site) and dismiss those that are trophy collectors (normally the ones most vociferous about bikes/eBikes never mind e-Trikes cluttering a congested camino … then you look at their...
  5. Treskelion

    The price of coffee in Spain and the perplexing economics of it

    I’m a month away from 65 with a BP of 110/60 and RHR of 43 … I need something to kickstart me. Often my wife gives me a nudge to see if I’m still ticking … she doesn’t do well on the lottery either.
  6. Treskelion

    Skipping a day

    Credencial … I had a cycle from our home in SW France that stopped at Dax in 2014 (spinal cord tumour played up). I want to have my previous effort included (especially since I will be doing the return portion as well), both Credencials will need authentication at SJPDP? Question: Do I just...
  7. Treskelion

    Sleeping bag OR just a liner??

    How do folks deal with bed bugs on the CF route? I suspect that the little sods are in every nook and cranny at the tail end of the summer season. I remember getting bitten by them whilst staying at a military block on the first Arms Control flight into the Eastern Block. Setting off from Dax...
  8. Treskelion

    The price of coffee in Spain and the perplexing economics of it

    Bean2Cup at home (relatives bring their own nescafé if that’s their thing), coffee short/long €1,30/€1,60 at the local Cafes here in SW France. We have an Italian Coffee percolator for the Camping Car hob … 2 years in Naples, Italy really spoilt me to half decent black coffee; we change Café (we...
  9. Treskelion

    E-bike users now excluded from receiving a Compostela

    EV3 for me, as long as it is close enough to the Camino Frances to be accepted as such. Hopefully I have illustrated that I do not want to inhibit individuals on the Camino; although I am bemused that the loudest advocates of the caminos being busier than before … are those that have many more...
  10. Treskelion

    E-bike users now excluded from receiving a Compostela

    I live next to the EV3 trail in France … I’ll have a look to see what is declared. I can’t imagine Spain would have less funding than France.
  11. Treskelion

    E-bike users now excluded from receiving a Compostela

    Haven’t mentioned the Compostela in my posts on regional funding … just letting those not familiar with EU processes (like limiting eBikes etc) that the shared trails are not solely for pilgrims, or locals and/or scalp hunters to use. As you have mentioned many times, you could meet a tractor...
  12. Treskelion

    E-bike users now excluded from receiving a Compostela

    So the ECR does not derive any funding from the EU? Interesting. Would you not consider that the EU funding does its job (so the ECR just happens to share a City with EU, as we both aware the EU decamps between Strasbourg and Brussels on a regular basis), to help poorer areas of the EU...
  13. Treskelion

    E-bike users now excluded from receiving a Compostela

    Your penultimate paragraph is supported by the creation, several years ago, of the EV3 cycle route that uses the same shared trail as the Camino Frances … perhaps a Brussels administrator wanted to find a way to keep the shared trail maintained with EU Grants to help all pilgrims, local...
  14. Treskelion

    Compostela: Electric Bikes Excluded?

    A pawsitive move in my opinion …
  15. Treskelion

    Compostela: Electric Bikes Excluded?

    Having discussed removing e-bikes from the camino routes, has anybody (apart from Kathar1na) recognised that the EV3 (EuroVelo3) shares much of the camino route to Compostela from Scandinavia. The countries that maintain the EV3 gain support via EU regional grants … the EV3 is not far from our...
  16. Treskelion

    56 y/o, traveling alone & so nervous

    I’m 65, alone and severely disabled … I’ll be on the Camino this Winter quarter to avoid all the Camino scalp hunters bemoaning the use of e-Bikes (in my case an e-Trike limited to 250W) on a shared trail. So have courage … you are not alone.
  17. Treskelion

    Compostela: Electric Bikes Excluded?

    I suspect that 200 yrs ago, if you were carried to SdC on a hand-drawn cart by your family (or perhaps retainers) then you would have been greeted like any other pilgrim.
  18. Treskelion

    Compostela: Electric Bikes Excluded?

    Or, perhaps the able-bodied shoes get the Compostela, since they carried them. Of note, some disabled will complete the return route as well. Mine starts near La Rochelle, Nouvelle Aquitaine. The rules for e-Bikes in France are some of the most draconian in Europe (thank goodness).
  19. Treskelion

    Compostela: Electric Bikes Excluded?

    So by your standards if, God forbid (just to remind the scalp hunters of the origins of a pilgrimage), your spinal cord is severely damaged then you cannot use an electric wheelchair, or an e-Trike, perhaps an e-Bike (with less power than many wheelchairs), to complete your camino on a shared...
  20. Treskelion

    Compostela: Electric Bikes Excluded?

    Really? 250W street legal eBike (or e-Trike) and a petrol engine … pray tell me the “no difference”.

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