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So Becky and her bag have neen having some disagreements of late. You know the sort of thing: Becky wants her bag to be comfortable and her bag is all like, 'But suffering is surely an integral part of the Camino!' so we spent a bit of time browsing bags.

What we've been looking for is a woman's bag - these are designed for a more petite frame and so should 'fit' better than the general bags we've been using for our Caminos so far.

Becky also wants one with a vented back so that she doesn't get too hot and then we've been looking at pockets - there's always stuff that you want to be more readily accessible (rain cover, guidebook or [most importantly] chocolate) so a good sized one at either side and one at the top would be good.

Then there's the main pocket - the bags we use are 40 litre and that's big enough but a slightly bigger one would be okay (as long as it fits inside that certain budget airline's carry on size limit - I love my bag but don't want to pay as much [or more sometimes] to fly it home as I do to fly myself home!). We saw one that had a zipped section at the bottom where the sleeping bag could go meaning it would be easy to grab a bed once we arrive and then run off to the shower before they get busy.

The weight of the actual bag is also important - we don't want to spend ages reducing the weight of everything inside the bag and then have a heavy bag to carry!

This is probably a search that is going to take a while to do.

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