TRICS AND ADVICES:

THE FEET

It is important to do a training plan before start the Way. At least three weeks before. You must to begin with 5 kilometres per day and end with 15 or 20 kilometres per day. With this you will avoid tendinitis and muscular overloads.

Check your feet before to leave, especially the nails.

if when you will end the stretch you have feet swollen, dip it with lukewarm water, fat salt and vinegar during 15 or 20 minutes, and after you must do a massage with rosemary alcohol.

To start the Way with new footwear, it is an error. The boots have to be used a little bit. And also it is important the some to the underwear.

The feet must be good lubricated, if it is dry, it is an error. You must use vaseline or products like “ungüento del peregrino”, you must put it before to begin the stretch specially between fingers.

Change of socks with frequency and clean the feet whenever you can refresh in rivulets or fountains.

Take care with the wrinkles socks and put it backward.

The massages in the feet, are very good to active the blood circulation, always there is a partner to do it reciprocally. If after we put rosemary alcohol or olive oil is better.

THE HOSTELS

On occasions to sleep in hostels, especially to the people that have difficulties to sleep, the snoring can be horrible, but with a good plugs you could sleep.

Pillows of the hostels it isn’t usually that be clean, for this, you can bring a cover pillow.

It is necessary take some precautions, supervise always your bag. The pilgrim isn’t excluded from thefts.

Always you have to bring toilet papers in the bag, because some times in the hostels there aren’t.

The pilgrims who go on foot have preference over the cyclists or the people who go by horse.

From November to March is complicate do the Way by mountain bike.

Travel the Way of St James in Shelters