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    current (May 2024) status of albergue bed availability on CDN

    How about a little help from Google Maps? https://maps.app.goo.gl/mZPbHHM92kwCTmpVA It's about 12-15 minutes walk from the terminal to the place where you will find the first yellow arrow (Amute Kosta) "Basque Helicopters" = San Sebastian Airport
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    LIVE from the Camino Counting pilgrims on the Norte AGAIN

    Thank you again for your invaluable counting work, @Umwandert ! I hope that when you accidentally stepped onto the nudist beach near Liencres, you took off your pilgrim armor and bathed according to the beach rules, following the famous quote "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" At least my...
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    Message from the Roncesvalles albergue - a difficult day.

    Deba has always been a bottleneck and they are trying to save beds for pilgrims who arrive very tired after an exhausting stage. You can read negative comments on Gronze and Google Maps left by those who were refused a bed. "Tourigrinos" who abuse pilgrim hostels are much common on Camino del...
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    Chance of a strike at Santiago airport (16 and 17-05 2024)

    Well, until the end of May the airport of Vigo has been "moved" with its air traffic to Santiago. If someone doesn't need to fly to or from Santiago in May, it seems wise to avoid the Santiago airport and risk delayed or cancelled flights.
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    Chance of a strike at Santiago airport (16 and 17-05 2024)

    Do you have a flight connection in Madrid? In that case I would buy a bus ticket from Santiago to Madrid from alsa.es and tick the option "Cambia o anula sin recargos" which makes it fully refundable and you can return it up to 2 hours before departure (3 euro fee). For 15th and 16th of May you...
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    Message from the Roncesvalles albergue - a difficult day.

    If you decide to start your Camino del Norte in Deba, they will not let you stay at their municipal albergue - unless you have walked for at least one stage. This is their policy: the first night in private accommodation. They will even ask you to show the pictures you took on the way to Deba to...
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    Camino del Norte

    Well a bit down from Colombres there in a nice pension Oyambre (you walk by it) which I can recommend as well. I stayed there for two nights a few years ago. The price on Gronze is 35 euro for a single. If I were going to Pendueles at this time of day, I would probably call first and see if...
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    Camino del Norte

    It is not municipal. It's a wonderful private donativo albergue owned by an East European pilgrim. Highly recommended https://www.gronze.com/asturias/colombres/albergue-casa-peregrinos-colombres OP probably went to El Cantu. It looks very attractive on the outside, but inside... not as much It...
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    3 languages on VdlP stone pillars

    Well the village in the back looks to me like Villanueva de Campean. Am I right?
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    Official new alternative route from Boimorto to Lavacolla

    Maybe you look too far ahead in time? I looked at the booking:com and they have availability until the end of July, although the weekends in June and July seem to be quite full.
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    LIVE from the Camino Counting pilgrims on the Norte AGAIN

    Please kindly try to bring those numbers on the Norte down, @Umwandert , they are scary 🙂
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    Where to Buy Trekking Poles in Leon on Sunday?

    Souvenir shops around the Cathedral Chinese shops in Camino towns as well
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    LIVE from the Camino Counting pilgrims on the Norte AGAIN

    It was nice to be helpful, I hope you will rest well at the Duesos albergue! I am guessing that the comment about grumpy hospitalero is about so called Casa Rectoral on the top of the hill before (looking from your side) Piñeres de Pria, next to the San Pedro church. It is in the middle of...
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    Two pilgrims injured in an attack by a cow

    Excellent guess! 👏 👏 👏 The owner of the dog learned a valuable lesson about taking his pet on the Camino. I hope the dog and the cow is OK. Latest news: the cow was defending her calf from the barking dog
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    Two pilgrims injured in an attack by a cow

    On the Via de la Plata sometimes you have a fence on both sided of the path and if there is a cow there, you don't have too much room to negotiate. This one, in the picture below, made my heart pound! If you look closely you can see the fence. I took this photo on a stage Casar - Cañaveral...
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    Is Madrid Chamartín Station Open at Night?

    Well, several webpages report Chamartin closed between 0:30 and 4:30 at night. The first Cercanias train leaves the airport terminal T4 on Sunday morning at 6:02 and arrives at Chamartin just 15 minutes later. Then every 15 minutes there is either C-1 or C-10. If you spend the night at the...
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    LIVE from the Camino Counting pilgrims on the Norte AGAIN

    Thank you so much for reporting the traffic on the Camino del Norte! This is so helpful for those heading there soon! For tomorrow, apart from Colunga, you have a pretty village of la Isla 21 km from Villaviciosa, although the albergue in La Isla is a Municipal one, and being usually full of...
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    Getting from Orisson to Roncesvalles

    This is the Lepoeder viewpoint, the highest point of the stage, where you can turn right and stay on a tarmac road all the way to Ibañeta Chapel. The other option to go straight down to Roncesvalles through forest is way more challenging and should not be used in bad weather Photo: Lepoeder...
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    Alternative Route from Deba

    I have learned from my Secret Informers that Albergue Kanpaia has been raised from the dead and is still alive and kicking. Maybe someone walking next to it could confirm that? It is on the hill on the way out of Getaria, the Camino del Norte is passing right in front of it
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    LIVE from the Camino Account of a very challenging day SJPdP to Roncesvalles (crazy weather)

    Thank you so much for a great "live" report from the trail, your cat and me were truly worried about what was going on there. I walked both variants and, as I wrote before, with this kind of weather forecast I wouldn't go, I would just wait one day or take a bus (or a Bourricot Express) to...

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