OK that's it. The rucksack is finally packed and the journey starts tomorrow. However, it will be the bus that is doing the hard work, first to Ronda and then to Seville, where I need to get a pilgrim's passport from the cathedral, before I can start walking. The old packing equation of always making 2 piles. 1 of money the other of kit is always useful. First be brutal in your kit selection, then get your friends to be brutal, then get your neighbours to be brutal, then get strangers to be brutal, then get rid of everything you can. Finally, when you have everything reduced down to the absolute essentials... only take half the remaining kit but double the money! It is going to be warm in the South, 29C, so a lot of the "cold and wet" kit seems luxurious but... it is November tomorrow and the mountains aren't far away! I am hoping to walk in sandals for a fair bit of the route but they are heavy when they are in the sack... Also, the heavyweight sleeping bag had to go, so it is only a polar fleece bag which will make sleeping rough difficult when it gets cold. Still I have a gortex outer bag and a great Paramo fleece and, after all, it is not supposed to be easy!
