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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...
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...
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...
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