Via Augusta - Apr 2023

[Kev&Kath]

My wife and I walked the Via Augusta in April this year...walking out of Cadiz on Good Friday. We thought this was an excellent path and fantastic 'warm up' for our push up VdlP and Camino Sanabres. Highlights were definitely a couple of days in Cadiz (getting on time...and the walk out of Cadiz), El Puerto de Santa Maria and Jerez de la Frontera. Would definitely look to repeat this walk at some future time.

 

[Marcus-UK]

My wife and I walked the Via Augusta in April this year...walking out of Cadiz on Good Friday. We thought this was an excellent path and fantastic 'warm up' for our push up VdlP and Camino Sanabres. Highlights were definitely a couple of days in Cadiz (getting on time...and the walk out of Cadiz), El Puerto de Santa Maria and Jerez de la Frontera. Would definitely look to repeat this walk at some future time.

I have looked at this route as an extension from starting in Algeciras/Gibraltar and following the coastal Camino, before starting VdlP in Seville.
However I am now considering starting in Huelva along the Camino del Sur to Zafra and bypassing Seville. Then continuing along the VdlP. Mainly because I get better direct flight connections from where I live in the UK with easy bus connections to my Camino Start and end points.

 

[Rita Flower]

Thank you for sharing.
I was considering this last year as a start to the VDLP, but couldn’t find enough information to support me as a solo older walker, so started in Sevilla.
It’s been good to hear from others completing this Camino.

 

[MesaWalker]

We were going to do this walk in the fall but ultimately decided to walk the Via Serrana from La Linea de la Concepcion to Sevilla, then on to SdC. Would love more details and photos, if you have them, of the Via Augusta. Congratulations on your pilgrimage.

 

[digger]

Hi Kev & Kath,
I'm planning to walk Via Augusta in March next year. I have no problem with long stages and I prefer the quieter paths. I haven't been able to find many albergues. (I have just contacted the amigos for suggestions) Did you have to use hotels/pensiones a lot?
Thanks,
Digger

 

[Kathy F.]

I've never heard of this Camino. Where did you find information?

 

[Kev&Kath]

Hi Kev & Kath,
I'm planning to walk Via Augusta in March next year. I have no problem with long stages and I prefer the quieter paths. I haven't been able to find many albergues. (I have just contacted the amigos for suggestions) Did you have to use hotels/pensiones a lot?
Thanks,
Digger

Digger...yep...hotels and an AirBnB coming out of Seville to San Fernando (Day 1 for us was a short hop). We walked the Via Augusta during Semana Santa, and it was a challenge getting accommodation at that time. I didn't see albergues on this route. That aside, my wife and I would walk this path again in a heartbeat. Good luck and enjoy your planning phase...Buen Camino!

 

[WalkingInGers]

I am thinking of walking from Gibraltar to Cadiz to Sevilla to Santiago in September 2024 or March 2025. Any recommendations and ideas from people who have walked this Camino?

 

[Paul-CH]

I've never heard of this Camino. Where did you find information?

Have you ever seen the Internet has good information about it. As a sample GRONZE on the picture at the bottom of the page.
Or you just google it like this: "Vía Augusta" "Camino"

 

[MesaWalker]

I am thinking of walking from Gibraltar to Cadiz to Sevilla to Santiago in September 2024 or March 2025. Any recommendations and ideas from people who have walked this Camino?

We walked Gibraltar to Sevilla on the Via Serrana, then on to Santiago. Did not go to Cadiz. The Via Serrana is beautiful.

 

[Paul-CH]

I am thinking of walking from Gibraltar to Cadiz to Sevilla to Santiago in September 2024 or March 2025. Any recommendations and ideas from people who have walked this Camino?

Hi if you like you can check my blog (use the browser to translate it from german) I walked from march 19. to 26. 2023 from Cádiz to Sevilla and then to SdC.

 

[WalkingInGers]

Hi if you like you can check my blog (use the browser to translate it from german) I walked from march 19. to 26. 2023 from Cádiz to Sevilla and then to SdC.

Danke fur ihrer Information. Le Valais? Just returned from Vevey and saw Charlie Chaplin museum located above Vevey.

 

[Paul-CH]

Danke fur ihrer Information. Le Valais? Just returned from Vevey and saw Charlie Chaplin museum located above Vevey.

My Route from Cádiz to SdC
Blogposts Cádiz

 

[Kev&Kath]

My Route from Cádiz to SdC
Blogposts Cádiz

What an amazing spreadsheet!! You definitely have great skills...very cool.

 

[WalkingInGers]

My Route from Cádiz to SdC
Blogposts Cádiz

I am currently reading your exploits…fantastic…my concern on planning my pilgrimage is the weather at the beginning and as you walked to Merida. When did you start? Early March?

 

[Paul-CH]

I am currently reading your exploits…fantastic…my concern on planning my pilgrimage is the weather at the beginning and as you walked to Merida. When did you start? Early March?

You find the dates on the last picture of my Garmin Statistics. And many more details like temperature and weather on the route information PDF
I started march 20th
by the way: Vevey is located in the Vaud region

 

[WalkingInGers]

You find the dates on the last picture of my Garmin Statistics. And many more details like temperature and weather on the route information PDF
I started march 20th

Thank you.

 

[Paul-CH]

What an amazing spreadsheet!! You definitely have great skills...very cool.

Thanks I started to build my spreadsheets 2016 for my first camino 2017 from Constance via Geneva, Le Puy en Velay, St Jean Pied de Port, Santiago de Compostela to Porto. Every year I enhanced it a bit to be better prepared on my pilgrimages.

 

[WalkingInGers]

Thanks I started to build my spreadsheets 2016 for my first camino 2017 from Constance via Geneva, Le Puy en Velay, St Jean Pied de Port, Santiago de Compostela to Porto. Every year I enhanced it a bit to be better prepared on my pilgrimages.

And this year, what are your plans?

 

[Paul-CH]

Spring was 1100km from Canterbury to St. Maurice and in Autumn I will start in St. Maurice and hike the other 1100km to Rome.

 

[WalkingInGers]

@Paul-CH Just finished reading your blog with all that information. I am impressed. Thank you.

 

[Paul-CH]

@Paul-CH Just finished reading your blog with all that information. I am impressed. Thank you.

Thanks that is very nice to read. I hope it will assist you on your pilgrimage. There are also other accommodations places. But sometimes I prefer to have my own quiet zone after a longer hike.

 

[WalkingInGers]

Thanks that is very nice to read. I hope it will assist you on your pilgrimage. There are also other accommodations places. But sometimes I prefer to have my own quiet zone after a longer hike.

I enjoyed walking the Camino Frances until Sarria where, besides five days of downpour, two legged creatures were in plentiful supply, so was the music and the « Buen Camino » scarce.

 

[Paul-CH]

That's the reason on my Norte I joined the Frances on the last possibility near the airport.

 

[Simon B]

We walked Gibraltar to Sevilla on the Via Serrana, then on to Santiago. Did not go to Cadiz. The Via Serrana is beautiful.

Have you any details of accommodation for the Via Serrana? Information seems very sketchy. Hoping to walk next Spring from Gibraltar to Santiago.

 

[WalkingInGers]

Have you any details of accommodation for the Via Serrana? Information seems very sketchy. Hoping to walk next Spring from Gibraltar to Santiago.

I am planning to leave Algericas on March 9th.

 

[peregrina2000]

Have you any details of accommodation for the Via Serrana? Information seems very sketchy. Hoping to walk next Spring from Gibraltar to Santiago.

You should check out the Via Serrana subforum, which is here. Only 26 threads, but lot of good and recent information. Several forum members, including me and @C clearly, have walked this route within the last six months or so, and we didn’t have trouble getting the information we needed. So I’m wondering what you mean when you say “sketchy.” Sketchy as in “not much” or sketchy as in “a little suspicious?”

But more to the point, if you are planning/hoping to walk the Via Serrana, my advice would be to start a new thread with your questions, because you will get answers and opinions, I’m sure. Buen camino, Laurie