Link to resource about the new official route to Lavacolla avoiding Arzúa, St Irene & Pedrouzo

[notion900]

Please find here a new resource with a map on this new official variant of the Camino del Norte, just before it joins the Camino Frances. It is intended to relieve pressure on the busy villages at the end of the Camino Frances and offer a quieter way into Santiago for those on the Camino del Norte. It is now fully route marked by the Xunta de Galicia.

 

[ksam]

Nice! Thanks for posting. I leave for Europe tomorrow and start the Primitive on Oct 11. I've been planning to take the green route from Lugo to Sobrado. Now with this I can miss the Frances until Lavacolla! Excellent news. Gracias.

 

[Iriebabel]

Nice! Thanks for posting. I leave for Europe tomorrow and start the Primitive on Oct 11. I've been planning to take the green route from Lugo to Sobrado. Now with this I can miss the Frances until Lavacolla! Excellent news. Gracias.

Buen Camino

 

[Stefystar]

Buen Camino

Hi, I wonder if it will be included in the 2019 wise pilgrim guide..

 

[notion900]

Hi, I wonder if it will be included in the 2019 wise pilgrim guide..

Is the author a forum member?
It's not on Gronze yet but they mention it in a news article.

 

[Stefystar]

Is the author a forum member?
It's not on Gronze yet but they mention it in a news article.[/QUOTE

Is the author a forum member?
It's not on Gronze yet but they mention it in a news article.

Not sure but it is from casa Ivar so...it should be good
Ok am going to wait for confirmation before buying it.

 

[Iriebabel]

Is the author a forum member?
It's not on Gronze yet but they mention it in a news article.

Yes. @wisepilgrim im sure you can IM him

 

[trecile]

It looks like it's on my Buen Camino app.

 

[andycohn]

Hi, I wonder if it will be included in the 2019 wise pilgrim guide..

The new route was included already in the 2018 Wise Pilgrim guide, along with variations to cut off the new route before Lavacolla so you don’t have to traverse the busy N-634. And Michael is a forum member.

 

[Stefystar]

The new route was included already in the 2018 Wise Pilgrim guide, along with variations to cut off the new route before Lavacolla so you don’t have to traverse the busy N-634. And Michael is a forum member.

Hi Andy Cohen,
Thank you for the confirmation!. I am planning for next year , so I am looking into the norte route.

 

[notion900]

Good to hear it's in the guidebooks. Wouldn't surprise me if the Xunta decided to build an albergue at Lavacolla. It would then fit in with the new Xunta one at Boimorto, which always seemed a bit of a beautiful white elephant up to now.

 

[PK Smit]

Thanks for this piece of information.

 

[Pierre Julian]

I did it last year. It's a long day but really lovely. Plus - you avoid the litter, trail of used toilet paper, graffiti, noisy-party-pilgrims, groups of cyclists, cigarette smoke, hippies (and their guitars and mangy dogs) for one extra day. Surely worth it!

By the way, I stayed at the Boimorto albergue the night before that last stage - and I was the only one there. It's a little bit of a walk into the town from there but it is a really lovely modern albergue, and it would be nice to see it used more often.

 

[trecile]

I partially walked this route last year. After spending the night in Sobrado dos Monxes I walked to Twin Pines B&B in As Calles/Orxal. Rather than continuing on the new route I turned and connected to the Francés at A Brea.