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If you cannot find the accommodation that you want and you're prepared to get a taxi and stay in a hotel near the Camino. If you click on booking at the bottom of this thread, this is Booking.com. They will show you alternative accommodation near...
If you want the route select Body on your screen. My phone does the same as you if you don't select Body you go to Burgus.
When you get to booking Trecile did a good explanation on how to use WhatsApp to make a reservation.
Thanks Trecile. Thats exactly as it worked for me. They asked me for a credit card number to confirm reservation and then they sent me confirmation in English by email. I think they could see I was struggling with my Spanish.
I made a booking today for later this month in Larrasoana in San Nickolas Albergue. I used WhatsApp in the Wise pilgrim app. There is a template and you just fill in date and name. I got a reply within 10 minutes. All done no worries.
Once when I entered Sahagun early in the morning. I could smell the bakery as I walked along the street. When I got next to it the workers were loading the bread into a van. I commented to the van driver that I was pleased to see it. He spoke to...
Here is a brief outline of our Camino from Reading UK to Santiago de Compostella via the Camino Ingles.
Day 1 April 7th Reading to Little London.
Reading is very Pilgrim friendly, great signage. Interesting Abbey ruins.
Very muddy, many detours...
I'm in the uk at the moment. Looking at my weather app for your area everything looks fine at the moment. Its showing a band of rain approaching from the west tomorrow. Then Wednesday and Thursday it seems to develop into showers with light snow...
On my last CF I had tea all the time and I did not have one complaint. I always asked for tea with lemon. Nearly all cafes did the tea in an amazing variety of tea pots. I found it it all wonderful and I'm looking forward to doing the same next...
Do NOT, on any account, ask for "té con leche" in Spain you'll probably get what you ask for - while up on the Sierra Nevada in a Swiss style bar I plumped for hot chocolate while my companion asked for té con leche and got precisely that: a cup...
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