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Can anyone add to these tips that I've found very useful?
7. Break in your boots! Though your new boots may look shiny and impress your fellow ‘grinos, if you don’t break them in before leaving, get ready for biting blisters.
8. Pack earplugs and a blind fold to silence snoring, flatulence and shield your eyes from torch wielders at albergues.
9. Buy a flexiflask. Fits into your side pocket and has a straw that extends over your shoulder that you can draw water from to hydrate on the move. Saves wasting energy taking your backpack off when you want a drink.
10. Put high vis/reflective stickers on rucksack (including straps) for roadside walking and travelling in the dark. While 500km is holding hands with mother nature and 200km on quiet roads, almost 100km is alongside busy roads
Bonus Tip:
11. Use your sleeping bag stuff sack to carry around passport, wallet and other valuables when you’ve finished walking for the day and want to explore where you’re staying.
[ivar added the blog post linked in the link below]
https://caminosantiagoblogcom.wordp...-top-tips-for-walking-the-camino-de-santiago/
- Pack flip flops to give your feet some air and kick off your boots when you finish walking for the day.
- Take a dictaphone – walk, think and talk. You’ll be surprised at how good your brain is at untying mental spaghetti when you switch off your smart phone – studies have shown we look at them an average 150 times per day and will spend five years staring at a screen by the time we die – and escape into nature. Capture that camino consciousness on your dictaphone.
- Make snacks easily accessible when on the road. When you’re tired and in need of a quick shot of energy the last thing you want is for that banana to be at the bottom of your backpack. Keep snacks and water in side pockets or best case scenario, in short/trouser pockets.
- Carry safety pins to attach wet clothes onto your rucksack so they can dry while you walk. You may have to show the world your power rangers underwear but at least they won’t be wet. Carry some pegs too. These little commodities are like gold dust at the albergues and essential for making sure your clothes haven’t been blown off the line all the way to Finisterre.
- Put all your valuables in your sleeping bag while you sleep. If anyone wants to get them they’ll think twice if they have to get close to your crown jewels.
- Have some spare change in pockets.
7. Break in your boots! Though your new boots may look shiny and impress your fellow ‘grinos, if you don’t break them in before leaving, get ready for biting blisters.
8. Pack earplugs and a blind fold to silence snoring, flatulence and shield your eyes from torch wielders at albergues.
9. Buy a flexiflask. Fits into your side pocket and has a straw that extends over your shoulder that you can draw water from to hydrate on the move. Saves wasting energy taking your backpack off when you want a drink.
10. Put high vis/reflective stickers on rucksack (including straps) for roadside walking and travelling in the dark. While 500km is holding hands with mother nature and 200km on quiet roads, almost 100km is alongside busy roads
Bonus Tip:
11. Use your sleeping bag stuff sack to carry around passport, wallet and other valuables when you’ve finished walking for the day and want to explore where you’re staying.
[ivar added the blog post linked in the link below]
https://caminosantiagoblogcom.wordp...-top-tips-for-walking-the-camino-de-santiago/
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