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If camping at the same spot for a few days or more, enough green biomass will start to compost and keep you warm. ( six inches thick or more, you cant have too much) In Mons (Belgium) last year, I found a campsite that had put all their grass cuttings in a big heap. by placing my tent over it, the temperature inside teh tent was over 20C with frost outside. My tent is a cheap dome type that i can pick up and position by lifting it by the top.
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A bizarre but potentially life-saving tip. Well, a night's sleep saving tip anyway. Though if I'm on a bike tour it's rare I'll spend more than one night in one place. But a good tip anyway.
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Now it's not like me to point this one out, but I'm afraid this is one of those times when you have to stay off the  too
Alchohol (and tea and coffee, less so) dehydrate you, make you need to pee and change your metabolic rate. The guy who has a tot before bed feels nice and warm, gets off to sleep OK but needs to pee at 2 am and that's your lot sleep wise until you get up, start the fire etc. The guy who goes to bed after say a mug of hot chocolate might wake up cold, but after the museli (I prefer a chocolate biscuit) will get back off to sleep again.
If you want a really bad nights sleep (actually about an hour), go to the Elefant, get off your face on what the Russian and Czech riders give you out of hip flasks, fail to close your tent properly and sleep fully clothed until the snow on your hat starts to melt. After that you can have as good a tent and sleeping bag as you like, you'll still be too cold to sleep.
If it is that sort of event, the cup of cocoa before you turn in works wonders IMHO, but need to be with it enough to use the stove safely.
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How about chocolate and a little something making a nice, warm Kalhua type drink...
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How about chocolate and a little something making a nice, warm Kalhua type drink... 
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Never tried. The first one might be revolting, but in my experience the next three or four are fine and it's the last one that does for you
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Strange. That's my experience too...
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