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  1. peregrina2000

    Carrión de los Condes - floral carpet tomorrow

    What great pictures. Just to say that many towns and villages in Portugal follow the same tradition. I’ve come across several, and it is usually part of a bigger operation — a few people working on the flowers, others cooking food, transporting bags of petals, etc. In my experience, the local...
  2. peregrina2000

    Casa Beatnik

    I was just looking at some lodging options around Ponte Ulla, and saw that what used to be the Pazo dos Galegos has a new life as Casa Beatnik. In had a long multi-generational history as a family estate and winery. It got a Xunta grant to transform the home into a hotel. I had never stayed...
  3. peregrina2000

    Invierno Planning Questions 2024

    Thanks for the link to the blog. There’s a lot of practical info there as well as nice pictures. I have one question about your lodging. You stayed in Pensión Victoria on your last night before Santiago. I had never heard of anyone staying there (but it is on Gronze, so I just haven’t been...
  4. peregrina2000

    Invierno Planning Questions 2024

    Calling all @alansykes aficionados. Here is our first clue about Alan’s Camino 2024!
  5. peregrina2000

    Primitivo accommodation advice

    The Grado municipal albergue is almost always full once the season gets going, but there are other options in town. The only real bottleneck,Imho, is Berducedo. But if you can walk on a few more kilometers, there is a large private Albergue with private rooms in La Mesa
  6. peregrina2000

    Invierno Planning Questions 2024

    Three years ago, done in COVID confinement. It was one of the many planning threads we did when we were under lockdown. They were a lot of fun.
  7. peregrina2000

    Invierno Planning Questions 2024

    And don’t forget our planning thread and for a 25 km or less Invierno.
  8. peregrina2000

    Invierno Planning Questions 2024

    A few more nitpicky points. The CR in Piñeiro, which I am not familiar with, is 750 m off camino according to gronze. I don’t see any advantage to foregoing a chance to stay in Torre Vilariño, the very first Casa Rural in Galicia (or maybe Spain), inaugurated by none other than the one and...
  9. peregrina2000

    Invierno Planning Questions 2024

    That’s not quite right. The trail I took does not go through the town of Orellán, but it does go straight to the mirador and the galerías. The descent to the town of Las Médulas comes after that...
  10. peregrina2000

    Invierno Planning Questions 2024

    Don’t forget those two little romanesque churches! Or was there only one?
  11. peregrina2000

    Invierno Planning Questions 2024

    That would also give time to head to the miradouros on the way, though maybe not time to walk your 6km loop (which should change now anyway to include Miradouro II). This is also very feasible. I got to Diomondi after walking from Monforte and taking the detour out to the miradouros. My plan...
  12. peregrina2000

    Invierno Planning Questions 2024

    I think Monforte is a very nice town, good ambiente, pilgrim office!, good restaurants, nice parks, several albergues (although both are a bit out of the center, one back by the train station and the other about 700 m on the way out according to Gronze). The main tourist attraction, other than...
  13. peregrina2000

    Invierno Planning Questions 2024

    One thing to pay attention to is which trail you take up to Peñalba. All options require going up, of course. When Reb and I walked, we went from Peñalba through Montes de Valdueza and on to Ponferrada (you would do this in reverse). A few months ago, I took a slightly longer trail that did...
  14. peregrina2000

    Variant from Mansilla De Las Mulas to León

    I have never walked to this monastery, though I had hoped to do it back in 2012. The alternative turns a 4.5 km straight shot walk alongside the road into a 10 km trianguluar trip southwest from Mansilla to the monastery and then back north to the official camino. It is a Cistercian monastery...
  15. peregrina2000

    From Lugo to Santa Eulalia on Verde?

    Oh, no, I don’t think the elevation profile is important, it’s all pretty flat around there. All I was worried about was whether the flat elevation line had any impact on messing up the actual track on the ground, but these posts all helped me see that it didn’t. Thanks so much, though.
  16. peregrina2000

    The Vanity Project

    I agree with Chrissy that it looks fine to me! Since you say you put it in a stairwell, this may not be an issue, but if it gets any direct sunlight, you should make sure the glass has UV protection. I framed my first credential and within 4 or 5 years, nearly all the stamps had faded from the...
  17. peregrina2000

    Primitivo stages & accommodation.

    To round out the reviews of the places to stay in Castro, I stayed in the Hotel Rural Chao San Martín in fall 2022. I’m not sure how it gets to use the label “hotel”, since it is really a house with rooms to rent out. But having said that, I took a look at the gronze reviews and have to say I...
  18. peregrina2000

    From Lugo to Santa Eulalia on Verde?

    Thanks so much to everyone. I think I’ve got it! I will report back if they take this option, and I will also make sure to give it a try on my next Primitivo.
  19. peregrina2000

    From Lugo to Santa Eulalia on Verde?

    Totally agree, and the roads are fine from the official route to Eulalia. But those first few kms from Lugo on the Verde are verdant, on riverside tracks, and look like a beautiful alternative. If I could overlay GPS tracks, I’d take the two in the Resources and see where they branch off but...
  20. peregrina2000

    From Lugo to Santa Eulalia on Verde?

    Thanks, Rick, those are XMSgrande’s tracks. And that is the wikiloc track I pasted in the first post for the Santa Eulalia option. Can you take a look at those tracks and tell me what you think that flatline part means? Usually when there is a straight line on wikiloc, it comes up on the...

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