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I left Alicante on around October 20th in 2014 and followed a mixture of the Sureste and the Levante until after Benavente, where I crossed onto the Sanabrés, arriving in SdC on about December 8th, I think. I liked it very much. It was still a bit hot for the first few days after Alicante, but otherwise fine. There were some great towns and cities - the obvious major ones like Toledo and Ávila, but I very much enjoyed smaller places like Arévalo (wonderful mudéjar churches), Medina del Campo (fine castle and oldest functioning butchers' market in the world), Tordesillas, El Toboso, Almansa, Tembleque (one of the loveliest plazas I've ever seen), La Roda (albergue inside the Plaza de Toros), San Clemente (modern art gallery inside a Renaissance palace) and so on.Hello,
Has anyone walked on the camino Sureste in October ?
Otherwise, what do you think about walking it at this period of the year ?
Thanks
I left Alicante on around October 20th in 2014 and followed a mixture of the Sureste and the Levante until after Benavente, where I crossed onto the Sanabrés, arriving in SdC on about December 8th, I think. I liked it very much. It was still a bit hot for the first few days after Alicante, but otherwise fine. There were some great towns and cities - the obvious major ones like Toledo and Ávila, but I very much enjoyed smaller places like Arévalo (wonderful mudéjar churches), Medina del Campo (fine castle and oldest functioning butchers' market in the world), Tordesillas, El Toboso, Almansa, Tembleque (one of the loveliest plazas I've ever seen), La Roda (albergue inside the Plaza de Toros), San Clemente (modern art gallery inside a Renaissance palace) and so on.
With this post you really triggered my mind and memroy and got me into thinking to walk Levante again (or Sureste for the first time ).I left Alicante on around October 20th in 2014 and followed a mixture of the Sureste and the Levante until after Benavente, where I crossed onto the Sanabrés, arriving in SdC on about December 8th, I think. I liked it very much. It was still a bit hot for the first few days after Alicante, but otherwise fine. There were some great towns and cities - the obvious major ones like Toledo and Ávila, but I very much enjoyed smaller places like Arévalo (wonderful mudéjar churches), Medina del Campo (fine castle and oldest functioning butchers' market in the world), Tordesillas, El Toboso, Almansa, Tembleque (one of the loveliest plazas I've ever seen), La Roda (albergue inside the Plaza de Toros), San Clemente (modern art gallery inside a Renaissance palace) and so on.
With this post you really triggered my mind and memroy and got me into thinking to walk Levante again (or Sureste for the first time ).
Those are just beautiful Caminos @Barbara06 !
Thanks so much for your answer Alansykes, you really make me want to go. Did you have any rain between Alicante and Benavente ?
There were a surprising number of others on the trail, and I spent several convivial evenings, in particular with an Estonian and a Valenciano. Roughly half the times I was in an albergue with one other person, sometimes even 2 (but only twice had to share a bedroom, as usually thee were at least 2 sleeping areas in the albergues.)Did you meet any other pilgrims ?
I never had any trouble finding somewhere to stay and I never booked ahead. I perhaps should have done in Toledo, as it was heaving with people, but the local tourist office fixed me up. I stayed in 19 albergues (including 3 nunneries, one polidiportivo, a bullring, above a funeral parlour and in a municipal swimming pool changing room) and 11 hotels/casas rural between Alicante and Benavente.Was it not too difficult to find a place to sleep ? Did you have to phone to the accommodation places each day ?
Did you have a guide book ? which one ?
I started on June 8th from Valencia. I was OK with temps but two weeks of 40-48C were simply too much and also some of my tech equipments gave up (had to go to Madrid for fixing it) so I skipped Toledo-Avila stretch.Hello KinkyOne, I would love to do this camino At what period of the year did you do the Levante ?
I think there's a way to translate text with Google or something? It's just that I've never found it....Can someone help please?Thanks so much Domigee, very useful information. Just that I will have to improve my Spanish to understand it better...
I think there's a way to translate text with Google or something? It's just that I've never found it....Can someone help please?
Finaly I was not able to free myself to do this Sureste camino in October.
Hope I will do it a bit later, something like March, April or May 2017
Anybody would like to do it with me ?
Hello Bad Pilgrim,Hi Barbara,
The Sureste during those months should be perfect as it is really too hot June-July. Unfortunately I cannot join you, I'm thinking about the Camino de la Lana for summer of 2017. Please let us know when you've done the Sureste and tell us all about it!
/Bad Pilgrim
Hello Bad Pilgrim,
Yes I will let you know whe I do it ! Camino de la Lana also seems interesting... but also very hot in summer I should imagine. From where will you be leaving ?
We cant promise to walk with you, but perhaps we´ll meet. We will start around the 13th of march. I wish you Buen CaminoFinaly I was not able to free myself to do this Sureste camino in October.
Hope I will do it a bit later, something like March, April or May 2017
Anybody would like to do it with me ?