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I, too, can experience frustration at the use (abuse?) of the phrase "the Camino provides." On the one hand, it does - in so many ways, most of which have already been mentioned in all of these thoughtful replies. I love that about the Camino...
You still find places charging 10, but my experience is most are €12 to even 15. Right now in Finisterre i paid 15.90.
Some only give 1 glass of wine instead of a half bottle, and some don't include a drink at all. You'll also frequently see...
I bring the same things I bring when not walking with a tent.
The only thing that is added is the tent.
I'm a cold sleeper so I always carry a warm sleeping bag, anyway. And I like to take naps during the day, so I always bring my sleeping mat...
Yup
Every article says, farmers used to set fires but now it's arsonists.. oh ps climate change. No evidence.
Dry is dry .. in ireland we have gorse and when i was young i remember seeing mountains on fire because some idiots set the gorse on...
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