Hi, I'm planning to walk the C2C in September of this year (2018), and have some concerns. One is about money. If ATM machines are few and far between, and if, as I've read, some won't accept foreign credit cards, what does a non-British citizen do about obtaining money? It sounds as though it might be necessary to travel with a good deal of cash, and I wonder how safe that is. I won't have a checkbook for a British bank, and I doubt that checks from an American bank would be accepted. Because my plan is to go at a fairly slow pace, logging around 10 to 12 miles a day, it will be a lengthy time frame. Any suggestions or experience in this matter? I'm a 75-year-old woman, and I'll be walking solo.
Then too, I'm wondering if many walkers choose a poncho for rain gear. I've walked the Camino Frances in northern Spain (500 miles) and the Camino Portuguese, from Porto to Santiago, and both times used a Ferrino poncho, much like the Altus, and liked it very much. It has arms, is rather long, and has a rear section to cover a backpack. But in the books I've read on the C2C, rain gear never mentions a poncho. I wonder if there's some reason for that that I'm not seeing.