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Let us pick up your suitcase once you arrive in Europe....
...and ship it to Santiago for storage. You pick it up once in Santiago. Service offered by Casa Ivar (we use DHL for transportation).
I would much prefer the ensemble in red please..................Red trousers....Red slippers.......Red Ummmmmmbrela........need to think about that one.
 
Camino Cleanup Program & Retreat
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Haha! I did the exact same thing last year and have grown to LOVE my umbrella. Spanish umbrellas (unlike those here in the USA) hold up quite well in wind. Of course, you couldn't use it if it was REALLY blowing, except to block the wind, which I often did. But yeah… three cheers for umbrellas! They keep you dry in the rain and 10-20 degrees cooler in the sun! (a figure of speech folks, I didn't carry a thermometer!)
 
I have contemplated whether to bring a wee teeny tiny brolly with me in my pack. We'll see what the weight is when iv finished packing the bag. Nearly time to go, I feel like a big kid
 
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angie said:
I have contemplated whether to bring a wee teeny tiny brolly with me in my pack. We'll see what the weight is when iv finished packing the bag. Nearly time to go, I feel like a big kid
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Brolly in the picture weighs 240grms - less than my Craghoppers caguole.
 
Camino Cleanup Program & Retreat
Join Camino Cleanup: Logroño to Burgos May 2025 and Astorga to O'Cebreiro in June.
In 2012 I stopped for a coffee break between O'Cebreiro and Triacastel with a nice Japanese couple just as the morning rain let up. About an hour later I saw him walking backwards alone. His wife had left her umbrella at the café. What a gentleman!
 
Just read an article about the last Umbrella repairman in Paris. Recently saw an Umbrella repair shop in Mexico City. Not a very common occupation!
 
Let us pick up your suitcase once you arrive in Europe....
...and ship it to Santiago for storage. You pick it up once in Santiago. Service offered by Casa Ivar (we use DHL for transportation).
James Smith & Co of New Oxford Street, London. Suppliers, and repairers, of umbrellas to the discerning. They include the adventurous Nicholas Crane among their satisfied customers. Even in this age of ready disposability, when was a rubbish tip is a "civic amenity" with queues, there are still craftsmen left. In at least three of the worlds great cities it would seem.
 
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Ah, an umbrella. Would not even contemplate walking without one. Shelter from rain and wind, even sun. And a source of confusion to boisterous dogs.
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thanks for the tip! just ordered one of those Euroschirm telescope handsfree. silver metalic one, to have an extra UV protection. will check it out on a local trail before I leave. on a rainy day of course. I bet I will be the first one in our neighborhood to use such a thing if it is good enough then I can leave my Vaude poncho alone. there is also non-telescope version, more sturdy perhaps, but too bulky imho.

 
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Camino Preparation Guide
The focus is on reducing the risk of failure through being well prepared. 2nd ed.
How fortuitous, I'm packing my backpack because I'm leaving tomorrow for the Camino. I have a small umbrella that I'll pack. We'll see if I use it, or "lose it".
 
DurhamParish said:
How fortuitous, I'm packing my backpack because I'm leaving tomorrow for the Camino. I have a small umbrella that I'll pack. We'll see if I use it, or "lose it".
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Buen camino - please report back on your experiences with the umbrella.
 
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More 2024 Camino Guides available
The 2024 Camino guides will be coming out little by little. Here is a collection of the ones that are out so far.
Tincatinker said:
Ah, an umbrella. Would not even contemplate walking without one. Shelter from rain and wind, even sun. And a source of confusion to boisterous dogs.
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I will be walking with one as well. 20 dias to go......
 
 
Camino Way markers in Bronze
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
But even if you brought a brolly you might still get wet.
The rain it falleth on the just
And also on the unjust fella
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust steals the just's umbrella.
 
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