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Cannot remember if it was weekend or not - but it was overall very busy in the albergues. In Guernica I arrived at 12 in the local albergue and this was already full - all were booked in Advance.
I see that you are talking about the Camino del Norte NOT being busy. I experienced last year end of July (Irun - Bilbao) that the way itself is not crowded, but the albergues were. It even got to a situation that a pilgrim who had an injury that made him walk slowly, arrived 'late' in one of...
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