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Rain jacket is not a good replacement for a windbreaker. Sometimes, it’s warm, but the wind is chilly, and you’ll sweat heavily in your rain jacket.
Also, I’d go for double layer socks as blister prevention (eg Wrightsocks, or just one thin...
Temperatures are currently down to 0 degrees (or a few more), also max temperatures are going down, way below 20 degrees.
Some Albergues aren’t heated and still wintery cold.
Roman Jubilee years occur every 25 years, and they are unrelated to either this or that Pope or with other Jubilees or Holy Years in other Sanctuaries. It is not a universal Jubilee year as the Year of Mercy was, it's just the normal Roman...
I‘ve been on the CF since April 2nd with a silken inliner.
Just two nights ago, I got into an albergue with only one other person in a larger dormitory. Badly insulated (just the wooden roof above us), walls still cold from winter, no heating...
Talking about Navarra here: trees are all green by mid April, and flowers start appearing already in late February but are at their greatest moment from late March to mid May.
These pics are from about 1-2 weeks ago:
Specifically with...
Left Saint Jean this morning at 7am. Got to Roncesvalles just before 1:30. Weather was clear and beautiful!
I didn't pre book, and was able to get a bed. I did hear they were all full by 4pm though.
Very happy with my first day on the Camino!
Today is my 17th day, and I’m having lunch in Leon.
The days from Burgos across the Meseta were very similar every day, and weather reports tell me that it won’t change very much:
Freezing cold (0-5 degrees C) in the morning at 7 when I started...
This book by Katherine Lack landed on my doormat last week. I ordered it having found her Frontstalag 142, The Internment Diary of an English Lady fascinating, not least because my grandmother and aunt must have been interned with Fanny Twemlow...
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