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Looking for a Freestanding Dome Tent for Camino Trip
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[QUOTE="good_old_shoes, post: 988416, member: 47112"] Even for caminos that have a great camping infrastructure like the Le Puy, where it is often possible to camp in the gite gardens, where you can sleep in your tent and still meet all the pilgrims at the gites and have dinner together ect, the advice usually is to leave the tent at home. Even for caminos with overall bad infrastructure, almost no albergues and almost no other pilgrims, the advice to leave the tent at home is often given - in favour of recommending hotels. For the camino I'm planning right now, often that would be up to 100€/night to sleep in hotels, where there are no other pilgrims, and for some reason, that's considered better than sleeping in your tent in the same town's official campground, where there are equally no other pilgrims, but at least other campers to talk to, have a coffee with ect... I'm not a wilderness hiker and never was. My first long distance walk was the Frances. I walk from town to town on my caminos, just like everyone else, and I'm always happy to meet other people and pilgrims on the way. Many towns have campsites as well as albergues, hotels, pensiones, casa rurals, ect. Why is sleeping in one better than the other? I really don't get why many pilgrims are so judgemental about that. Sleeping in a parador is apparently fine. Sleeping in single rooms each night, 'distancing' yourself from all the other pilgrims who sleep in albergues, is fine. Skipping sections because they're 'boring' is fine. But bringing a tent to sleep in albergue/gite gardens where it is allowed, or a campsite where it exists, is for some reason apparently considered a sacrilege. I like albergues, too. They're great. But I also like my tent. What's wrong with that? Why the need to discourage those who prefer a night here and there in a tent from doing so, but not those who like to spend a night in a single room from time to time, which is instead considered to be totally normal? I just don't get it. [/QUOTE]
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