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    VdlP starting in Slamanca in June/July?? Too hot??

    hi Heinrich The VdlP from Salamanca is still more or less on the Meseta -so you can bank on extremely hot conditions in June/July; when you get into the Cantabrian foothills some 100km further from Zamora e'g. Pueblo de Sanabria, there may be a degree or 2 difference wit the Meseta proper -...
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    What are options Cea to A LAxe?

    The Monasterio is a must, if only to buy some in house produced chocolate! - but I heard that the dorms were damp and very basic - I didn't stay there and pushed on to Dozon in the same afternoon; got there at abt 16.00 - I recall- but found it was closed. There we several pilgrims waiting for...
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    Via de la Plata Feb/March More questions

    YEs John that's the one I read - abt the gruelling ('arduous') and long etapas ....through Braganza in NE Portugal, so I didn't go there ... the 'Portuguese leg of the la Plata' happy trails Peter
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    Via de la Plata Feb/March More questions

    yes you did Ria - the Sanabres starts at Zamora and goes through the village Pueblo Sanabria - I was confused in my last post, thinking the 'side track' of the Via d/l Plata that takes people through NE Portugal (through Braga) was called Sanabres - can't put my finger on its' name now, but I...
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    Via de la Plata Feb/March More questions

    No wonder the Sanabres was easy for you Ria - if we are speaking of the same route, i.e. the left hand turn after Salamanca that takes the pilgrim into Portugal (the extreme NE tip) and back into Spain near Lalin! I considered doing it in 06 but was scared off by reading abt the many stretches...
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    Guide for via de la plata???

    hi Nathanael Pili Pala Press were considering a new edition of Cole&Davies 'Walking the VdelaP' Not sure where they are at currently but there was a page by page update to 08 last time I looked at their website http://www.pilipalapress.com/plata/updates.html hope this is useful - weather...
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    Via de la Plata in October

    hola Caminante I walked from Sanabria to SdC starting 9 Oct 06 Yes, rain, rain drenching rain more or less very frequently, every day during my last week! (to 23 Oct) Very few fellow pelegrinos... a few nights solitary in albergue, or a couple of Sp, Fr or Ger and one night an Oz couple on...
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    Via de la Plata Albergues (4)

    hola Sharon great list - am sure it'll be very useful Am puzzled abt Puebla de Sanabria - when I was there in Oct 06 the nuns at the Colegio Nstra. Sra. de las Victorias ran several dorms (in the classrooms of an old school bldg) where pilgrims could sleep, abt 12 beds per dorm - they were...
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    Cycling the waymarked path on VDLP

    hola Padraic I met an Oz couple on trailbikes at Sanabria who were on the VdlP, having cycled the Frances and the road to Finisterre; they were headed for Sevilla (so were doing the VdlP in reverse direction) They were very glad they had finished /come out of the hilly section and could look...
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    Going in and out of Ourense

    ummmm - now that I think of it Laurie, the gdns may have been an extension of the gdn. behind the monastery next door - I had to pass through it to get to the space underneath the (back) window from which my walking pole had fallen - I was using it as a drying stick b t w to get a t-shirt to...
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    Going in and out of Ourense

    Yep, indeed Laurie, the LH route out of Ourense is the shorter but its steepness prolly needs to be considered. Altho' I didn't take the RH so I haven't really got something to compare it against! And wasn't the albergue in Ourense great? Beaut old bldg I mean - and lovely gdns behind ( I...
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    Misleading signage from Puebla de Sanabria to Requejo

    Indeed Laurie - the Aciberos-Lubian stretch is an enchanted landscape; with the track up to the pass 'A Cando' a little further along the Via dlP, it must be among the most delightful bits of the Via dlP. A Cando leads up into the Cantabrian foothills proper and marks the boundary between...
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    Misleading signage from Puebla de Sanabria to Requejo

    Hola - no misleading signage that I can remember 'tween Sanabria and Requejo - however I recall that the track from there up to Padornelo is a bit grim (i.e. partially through a quarry of some sort and then a train tunnel of approx 300m length, which was sort of spooky) I remember being quite...
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    First camino, via de la plata?

    hi harrison j why anyone should want to "brutally" shoot you down is unclear ... it's yr plan for *YOUR* camino. I guess you know best what's good for you and how fit you are! Having said that, it strikes me that the probability is very high that it will be extremely hot (dangerously so, if...
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    Guide book "Guía Camino Sur Huelva-Zafra"

    Hi Bjorgts the Mundicamino site describes this route as the 'C del Sur (Huelva- Zafra) http://www.mundicamino.com/ but it seems not all details have been uploaded re the (seven) 'etappas' The Zafra albergue very much looks the part tho' buen camino Peter
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    Hot in Sept!!

    hola all Seems like the topic has drifted towards keeping warm on the odd, perhaps unseasonal, chilly night (in Spring or Autumn!) - well for that eventuality I've found a thermal undershirt does wonders to keep core body temperature even inside my sleeping bag - as well as a woolen cap - 25%...
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    Hot in Sept!!

    hi Sue yes I think Sept may still be too hot to start VdlP in Sevilla - I'm planning a start from Granada to Merida via Cordoba (late Mar/Apr '11) - and will then probably skip the rest - as I walked the laP in Sep/Oct 06 from Sanabria to SdC - if I'm still in walking mood at Merida perhaps...
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    Bitten and smitten/questions about VdlP

    hola LT the mundicamino website has good info on most routes - the advantage is you can download track decriptions for each etapa and discard them after you've finished - log in again later on and download a few more for the next few etapas etc - that way you do not have to carry a guidebook...
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    Via de la Plata - October (and November!) 09

    Hola Isabella Hope this catches you before you leave on Thu 1st Oct - I haven't got much to add to the excellent advice Gyro posted last week; I did the VdlP from Sanabria in Oct 06 - so being 3 years ago I'm sure things have changed here and there. I found it very beautiful altho' a bit...
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    Shell Bar

    Yes - Luis is a very nice human-being; also he makes a good 'cafe solo' (actually I had 2 when I was there on 16 Oct 06) plays Mozart as back-ground music and had a lovely little fire going which I sat before and tried to dry my clothes a bit, while savouring my coffees; the road up from Laza...

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