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Maybe people should need to submit to a month-long sleep evaluation in order to get a credencial and use albergues. The Cathedral would set the standards, administer the program, and recover the cost from, well, someone. Alternatively, if...
Bingo!...works for me. I also never hear the early riser bag rufflers and am surprised when I finally wake up and take my ear plugs out, how noisy the room actually is by then with everyone rushing around, packing up.
As a sometimes snorer, and one who has had his toe pulled on occasion, and who has investigated alleviation practices without permanent success, I would state as follows.
If you are going to stay in a hostel realize as a fact that snorers come...
Yes, that is the reason. My Camino app also starts there. But I suppose that’s just a convenient place to start drawing a line. I think not overthinking is key.
There is no "official" start. There are places where guide books, apps and websites start, but they are not "official." Gronze's first Norte stage is from Bayonne.
https://www.gronze.com/camino-norte
There is no “official” start to Camino. It begins where you begin. On the assumption that you are walking to Santiago and the old boy’s bones I’d suggest “go West” and buen Camino 😉
Walked in solid rain for two weeks on CF last October. Light weight rain jacket, plastic rain pants, pack cover and dry bags worked for me with a cheap, hand held umbrella. My shoes weren't particularly wet and I was warm.
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