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You don't have to like Booking.com or advance bookings at all.
To avoid the bed race at the age of 77, I made most of my 2024 Camino bookings 4-5 months ago via Booking. I can see the advantages:
1) I can always cancel all my bookings free of charge up to 2-3 days before the overnight stay.
2) I...
Like the last two years, I have already pre-booked all my accommodation for this year's Camino (Astorga - SdC).
Where possible, I choose Booking.com with the option to cancel free of charge until shortly before the date.
Only in rare cases do you still have to pay at the time of booking (without...
I made all the "big ones" and in my oppinion is the Camino de Madrid (until Sahagun) the best way, very few cobblestone and asphalt, but this way didnot ends in SdC
in Germany, this is quite common. To avoid unnecessary waste, more and more restaurants are offering a deposit-based container for leftovers. You pay up to €5 and can either keep the cleaned container or return it to many other places. This is called environmental protection
You absolutely cannot equate the two paths. The path along the coast is easy as pie, while the Primitivo is probably one of the most demanding paths, with many metres of altitude and sometimes longer stages, and requires a good level of fitness.
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