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Looks like still rows of bunk beds, but a lot better than it was -- they seem to have reverted to the originally intended number of them, instead of cramming in whichever maximum extra number they could possibly fit in !!
I've walked only a short section of the Le Puy Way, but I'd say that it's essential -- because unlike other routes in France (or in Spain), the guidebook outperforms the online resources for lodging info especially.
That's one of the two exits. No such thing at the northern exit, just some steps up to the doors, the ones at the far end here :
There are sometimes some street vendors outside, but no gift shops except up the street to the right.
I should be less poor this year than the last few ones (cross fingers !!) -- and I am increasingly leaning towards starting from Salamanca on this surprise intermediary Camino.
Anyway, as none of it will be a Winter Camino this year, and a lot...
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