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  1. Ungawawa

    Laundry Prices

    Prices almost always included detergent. The most common combination was 3 + 4 euros for washing and drying. Sometimes those prices were reversed. Private albergues were among the more expensive. Municipals and Xuntas a couple of euros cheaper. Washing and drying in a Xunta was only 2 + 3.
  2. Ungawawa

    One Albergue that you’d recommend

    An obvious choice here for you: Albergue Verde in Hospital de Orbigo. Amazing vegan food and hippy farm vibe, with free yoga! (Not to be confused with one Casa Verde...)
  3. Ungawawa

    Earliest you can see the meseta in bloom?

    That was June 4, 2017.
  4. Ungawawa

    Earliest you can see the meseta in bloom?

    Yes, I'd love to know this too. Anyone know from experience?
  5. Ungawawa

    Earliest you can see the meseta in bloom?

    Thanks everyone. So it sounds like if I started around the beginning of April I shouldn't miss anything in terms of green and flowers!
  6. Ungawawa

    Earliest you can see the meseta in bloom?

    So I have just a quick question: What's the earliest in the year that you can see the meseta green? I've been there late May and it was stunning with all the wheat and poppies. How much earlier can you get in the year before it's all just tiny sprouts in the ground? Thanks!
  7. Ungawawa

    Those misleading pilgrim office statistics

    Ah this is fantastic. For some reason it wasn't working for me on the English version of the site, but I switched to the Spanish one and you get nice interactive pie charts now. Great news - muchas gracias! My task now is to scrape all these stats and build an interactive camino heat map...
  8. Ungawawa

    Those misleading pilgrim office statistics

    Have you found the stats for starting points by month, Falcon? I'd love to see those. They'd let you build a hotspot map of the camino, month-by-month. Without a month breakdown the stats aren't very meaningful. Sure you can subtract the Sarria pilgrims from the total, but you end up with an...
  9. Ungawawa

    Those misleading pilgrim office statistics

    One of the ways I moonlight is to offer free advice to first-time pilgrims on Facebook groups, and recently I had a chap tell me that he wanted his camino (Frances from SJPdP) to be solitary, so he'd decided to go off-season in April! I had to stifle a chuckle to myself, as anyone who's walking...
  10. Ungawawa

    Disparaging "The Way"

    Unfortunately the English translation is rather bad and full of mistakes and omissions. Example: the end of chapter one in German goes: Sitze ich doch bei Milchkaffee auf einem kartoffelförmigen Planeten, der mit überhöhter Geschwindigkeit durchs Weltall rast. Davon merke ich zwar nichts, aber...
  11. Ungawawa

    Pyrenees or O Cebreiro

    Whichever start point you choose, I'd suggest staying on that path for the full time, not breaking it in half, even if this means you don't make it to Santiago. When you break your journey in half it really disrupts your social circle and internal flow. Imagine you or your daughter make some...
  12. Ungawawa

    Notable peregrinos

    In 2017 I met an American guy with a long white beard, traditional brown pilgrim robes, bare feet and a staff, calling himself "Father Blissful", a self-professed monk of "an order of two". The other one hadn't made it to the camino. He seemed a nice chap even if his religious credencials were a...
  13. Ungawawa

    Advice of those who have walked May/June

    Regarding rain, you'll most likely find it is all or nothing. You may only have rain 10% of the time you're hiking, but that 10% it will totally bucket down. Suggest having a good-fitting poncho for the downpours and a light rain-jacket for the rest of the time.
  14. Ungawawa

    Advice of those who have walked May/June

    Exactly. I wasn't making those temperatures up when I said between 10 and 38. They were real temperatures from my May / June 2017 Camino. Some people leaving a week or two earlier than me even saw zero degrees in some places! Basically you need three-season clothing, so take lots of adaptable...
  15. Ungawawa

    Advice of those who have walked May/June

    Every year is so different at this time of year that it's almost useless to try and predict. You could have 38 degrees, you could have 10. You're better off just checking your short-range forecast closer to the date. Sorry!
  16. Ungawawa

    Favourite Francés albergue - quick vote!

    You can stay at Eunate? I thought there's just a church there.
  17. Ungawawa

    What would the most alternate Francés route look like?

    I walked my last Frances in November, and you were right, it was quite a special experience. Fogs at twilight, amazing sunrises, snow up in the high ground near the Cruz de Ferro. It was so much more atmospheric than other times of year.
  18. Ungawawa

    What would the most alternate Francés route look like?

    Once you've done the Brierley Frances route by the book a few times, I'm thinking it would be interesting to do an alternate route version, to keep it fresh. I mean, never straying so far from the Frances that you can't rejoin it but incorporating all the variations and detours possible. I...
  19. Ungawawa

    Favourite Francés albergue - quick vote!

    Sure, done. God only knows what it will do the fairness of the stats though ;-)
  20. Ungawawa

    Favourite Francés albergue - quick vote!

    Yes, exactly. Far too many to narrow it down to just these few. It's my first poll and just for fun. I was hoping it would work like the facebook ones, where if your answer isn't on the list, you can add it on for others to vote for.

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