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[QUOTE="DeansFamily, post: 800058, member: 73517"] After a wet, windy, muddy and bitterly cold walk from Salamanca today the 3 of us arrived at the pilgrim albergue at Calzada de Valdunciel to find only 1 place left. The hospitalero rang the close by tourist alburgue which was full, and then the next one 5km away, and then the alburgues at El Cubo de Vino to find they were all full too. This I found hard to explain as I was carefully observing the muddy path we trod (trying to find the least slippery course) and I was certain there were no more than 3 other pilgrims walking before us that day. While waiting for the hospitalerio to ring around we chatted to a Korean woman we had met at Cacaboso who was walking to Santiago as well. She agreed that there was only herself and 2 Italian gentlemen that she had seen walking. The others didnt look like they had walked, they certainly werent mud splattered, damp looking and tired from the cold wind. Our Korean friend thought they were part of a tour group. The hospitalerio said that it was highly unusual, and that before today they had only been getting 1 pilgrim a day for the last couple of weeks. We have seen travellers pose as pilgrims to snare cheap lodgings and I felt this may have been happening again here (at a dedicated pilgrim albergue with no booking available). The only way out of this rotten situation was to run to the bus stop to hopefully catch the coach to Zamora (which we missed by minutes) or back to Salamanca (where we find ourselves again) and find a place to stay to get ourselves warm, dry and fed. Now we are worried that there is this cluster of supposed walkers heading for Zamora. Does anyone have any ideas what happened today as we have been alone on the VdlP for a couple of weeks now and this seems very strange 🤔 [/QUOTE]
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