• For 2024 Pilgrims: €50,- donation = 1 year with no ads on the forum + 90% off any 2024 Guide. More here.
    (Discount code sent to you by Private Message after your donation)

Search 69,459 Camino Questions

Advanced search…

Search results for query: *

  1. Hikoi

    Starting your Camino from Sevilla: Tips on Avoiding Urban Walks

    I enjoyed the walk from the Cathedral - not the least getting used to finding the arrows! And passing the 1000 kilometres to Santiago marker next to the Avenida Expo 92 was special. Look for Monolito Camino de Santiago, 41010 Sevilla, Spain on google maps (although it was a little worn) I turned...
  2. Hikoi

    Sleeping bag on VdlP April & May

    I left Seville on the 7th of April and took a silk inner and sleeping bag (good down to approx 0 degrees Celsius). I used it opened as a blanket and only closed it up a couple of nights - notably in the Monastery of Oseira! I did use gloves in the frosty mornings too.
  3. Hikoi

    Weather in March and April along Via de la Plata

    It was this one: https://helinox.com.au/collections/trekking-umbrellas
  4. Hikoi

    Weather in March and April along Via de la Plata

    Hey Rain - I did! Best decision I made. I used the hiking umbrella in very heavy rain on several days. It was spring! No poncho or waterproof. I’m going to use the same system again on my next Camino.
  5. Hikoi

    Weather in March and April along Via de la Plata

    Pretty much the same time I walked the VdlP from Seville. Beautiful time to walk - cold, even frosty mornings (gloves needed) and sunny warm afternoons. I only experienced rain off and on from Merida to Cáceres - where it hosed down with thunder and lightning. Then intermittent rain in Galicia...
  6. Hikoi

    How long did VDLP Seville to Santiago take you

    I walked in spring from Seville. 37 days, including two rest days (Merida and Salamanca) and another couple enforced medical days (infected blisters) in Zafra. I felt it was a bit rushed and over too soon! My next one will be slower, I hope!
  7. Hikoi

    Walking the Via de la Plata in May 2019

    When I walked the VdlP in 2016 I stayed in the albergue in Tabara. Great hospitality - the hospitalero, José Almeida Rodríguez, met each pilgrim, helped us take off our packs, washed our clothes, cooked the communal dinner, washed the dishes and among other things, farewell each of us! Everyone...
  8. Hikoi

    Sleeping bag on the VDLP?

    Hey Dougie - as you'll know it all depends on your tolerance to cold and what the weather is doing. I couldn't sleep if I were cold. I took a sleeping bag when I walked the VdlP, beginning at the end of March and finishing at the beginning of May. It was quite cold in the hills of Galicia. I...
  9. Hikoi

    Sports shops in Seville

    Hey Etty_S. There is a huge Decathlon store at Camas just a little off the VdlP camino. You pass it on the first day out of Sevilla. I walked out there and back the day before I began the camino proper in 2016 to get some stuff. It seemed to have mostly own brands. The walk was great for getting...
  10. Hikoi

    credencial in sevilla

    Hi Peter - the marker plinth is across in Triana. If you walk along Castilla you’ll find it on the bend where it almost joins Ave Expo 92.
  11. Hikoi

    Castilblanco to Almaden (that stage from hell again)

    I walked the VdlP a couple of years ago, leaving from Sevilla Cathedral. I loved the section from Sevilla to Guillena - with the exception of the short section just before Camas. And that was because of the litter. And my nerves after reading about others’ experiences on this forum. The...
  12. Hikoi

    Shortcut to Santa Lucía del Trampal from Aljucen to Alcuéscar

    Stunning - so annoying that I missed it. Next time...
  13. Hikoi

    When is a pilgrim not a pilgrim

    I count as a true pilgrimage my first visit to Santiago - by sleeper train! For me the attitude of spiritual awareness is what makes a true pilgrimage - for those of all faiths and of none. What I disliked when I finally walked the VdlP (without benefit of wheels motorised or otherwise thanks to...
  14. Hikoi

    Coffee first thing in the morning

    I did that too and bought sweetened condensed milk in a tube from time to time. It was available in most supermercardos.
  15. Hikoi

    The Camino leaving Sevilla.

    I found it relatively easy to do from the cathedral - mind you I'd checked on google earth and maps before arriving and had a bit of a look around on a couple of days in Seville. Spotting the arrows becomes easier when you're actually looking for them! It amazed me how often I'd overlooked them...
  16. Hikoi

    staying @ Oseira Monastery

    As far as I remember there are three modes of hospitality at the monastery: in the albergue, dormitory style accommodation and you look after yourself for meals; as a retreatant, where you stay in a "cell" and eat in the monastery guest dining room and spend days in silent prayer; and as a...
  17. Hikoi

    staying @ Oseira Monastery

    I stayed there last year in the first week of May for an evening. Only one bar in the village was open - and it was quite expensive and the food was pretty average. I think it was called Bar Caracas or Venezuela - some name associated with Venezuela anyway. The monastery is really interesting -...
  18. Hikoi

    Newbie on the Via de la Plata - Suggestions welcome!

    Hey NicP - you're the doc from Chch, right? We met in, or just before Baños I think. I'm back in Wellington now - missing the Camino...
  19. Hikoi

    Packed For The Rain ?

    I'd be happy to share it, but I didn't make a list! Just sort of stayed where I felt like it! I'll have to have a look through my notes.
  20. Hikoi

    Via De La Plata, Confusing Signpost Before Alcuéscar

    I also went left - fooled by the signs, which seemed to be a cynical re-routing of the Camino to lead pilgrims to the hostel. I arrived there and asked at the gas station whereabouts the monastery was, only to be told it was some kilometers away, along the road. I was so annoyed I double quick...

❓How to ask a question

How to post a new question on the Camino Forum.

Latest posts

This site is run by Ivar at

in Santiago de Compostela.
This site participates in the Amazon Affiliate program, designed to provide a means for Ivar to earn fees by linking to Amazon
Official Camino Passport (Credential) | 2024 Camino Guides
Back
Top