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Apparently I am planning my next camino ..




I received an email from Waterstones bookshop offering me double poonts and when I looked on-line the guide has three ponds off if I used their 'click and collect' service and apparently that was enough for me to buy it!

The guide itself looks good with maps, directions and information on bars and albergues anf their facilities as well as historical info and practical information on villages,  towns and cities. The instructions look good but obviously I haven't used it yet!

The only thing that it's missing for me is profile maps for each stage - I like to know when the hills are coming!  Plus it might be nice to habe the distance grom Santiago from points other than the starting points for the Caminos it's covering but that's being pernickety.

The Caminos covered are the Norte, Primitivo, Ingles and Finisterre (but not the extension to Muxia for which it suggests ypu buy the CSJ's guidebook).

I am considering the Ingles way from Ferrol, it's only about 116km and is meant to be quiet so it sounds interesting.  At some point I do want to walk the Norte as well ... and every othet Camino there is!

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