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[QUOTE="cronnik, post: 1044619, member: 102541"] Hi [USER=102617]@ciotime[/USER] - I ran into some issues on my trip that turned out for the best for my girlfriend and I (both fit 50yrolds) last end-July. Firstly I had heard from a Basque friend that Getaria (coming just after Zarautz) was a wonderful, aesthetically beautiful town. When we walked into Zarautz we noted the large beach ringed with unattractive apartment buildings so instead of stopping for the night in Zarautz we jumped on the local coastal bus for a 10min ride to Getaria. We loved this town. It's tiny, on a peninsula with a charming beach, great restaurants. There is an albergue there in the center of town. We surprisingly learned that its the birthplace of Balenciaga and there was a really wonderfully designed museum with modern architecture melded with a traditional building. We left the next day for Deba and as others have noted, accommodation options were few and all were booked/full (calling directly). The municipal was closed due to covid. After some hand-wringing we ended up taking the bus back to Getaria for a lovely second night and just took the bus back to Deba for our hike to Markina. Hearing that the municipal in Markina was closed we stayed at the fantastic Intxauspe Hostel, just outside the town (but on the way in). It is a beautiful traditional building set into a hill with a view down the valley, a lovely outdoor seating, eating area, a grass lawn for camping and relaxing on chaises. The hostess is wonderful and does your wash for a reasonable fee (you hang dry it) and produces an enormous, tasty and cheap pilgrim meal. The next day we had trouble finding accommodation in Gernika and booked a cheap private room. We heard the hike from Gernika to Bilbao was not very compelling and so I looked up beach towns and found Mundaka - another Getaria-like town that we took the light rail directly to and stayed for a night. Wonderful town, lots of surf schools, lovely vacationers, not terribly expensive (but not pilgrim cheap), lovely harbor and beach. We spent the day eating and swimming with the Basques and then got on the light rail for a short trip into Bilbao for a night of pintxo hopping before our flight the next day. Also the days of hiking in the mountains (Deba-Gernika) were a bit challenging but incredibly beautiful with compelling views and scenery. We loved it. So we obviously were not orthodox about our pilgrimage in terms of skipping sections. Everyone walks their own camino based on their intentions and interests. This worked out really well for ours. [/QUOTE]
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