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  1. K

    Do I Need Sleepingbag In May?

    If it is a cold spring (like 2013) you will need a sleeping bag! If it is warmer a silk liner will usually suffice, but who can predict the weather? I did the CF in 3 legs, once with and twice without a sleeping bag, and I was lucky that my choices aligned with the weather in those years. Do...
  2. K

    Novels Set In Spain, Any Recommendations?

    Reading the above suggestions I was surprised with how many I had myself read, commencing with 'The Spanish Bride' when I was 13 or so. And over the following years I digested 'The Sun Also Rises', 'Don Quixote', 'Shadow of the Wind', 'The Black Ship', 'Homage to Catalonia' and 'As I Walked Out...
  3. K

    Need to bring a guidebook ?

    I also walked in 2012, from Ponferrada to SDC without a guide of any kind, except a stylised linear map showing distances between towns, which I picked-up in the first albergue. I knew to walk west, and what the next town was, but that was all. I know now that I missed a lot of interesting...
  4. K

    Warmth of sleeping bag needed?

    I walked one year with only a silk sheet, and was only caught out once, in O Cebreiro. I got dressed in the middle of the night and climbed back into my sheet. I also carried a light sleeping bag once, in 2013, and was very thankful for it, in what was one of the coldest European summers in...
  5. K

    Patience is a virtue ..

    Stay optimistic...
  6. K

    Do you have any recommendations for a mini Camino experience (3 days)?

    Consider Finisterre to Santiago. Three days in Galicia on a less-crowded route. And walking it must be infinitely preferable to the nausea-inducing bus ride I endured between these towns last year. Alternatively, it takes three days to get from Roncevalles to Pamplona. No mountains from...
  7. K

    Leon to Santiago in 2 Weeks?

    Well, as someone who walked Ponferrada - Santiago during May last year, I thought the stretch between Samos and Sarria was wonderful. I started that morning in Tricastella and the initial route to Samos was along a (deserted) highway for a little, but the descent into Samos was certainly...
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