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[QUOTE="MKalcolm M, post: 165140, member: 25205"] [I]I am a slow walker, and starting all this mid-May-ish, with rest days, I expect to be in Santiago around the second week in July. How is it joining the Frances in Arzua, at the end of the Norte in July? Jarring? No beds? What is the actual distance left to Santiago from Arzua?[/I] Caplen We joined the Frances at Aruza and despite being warned about it, it was a huge shock. We arrived in town at about 2.00pm to find several alberges already full and to be told that we had left it very late to find a bed, whereas on the Norte we often didn't arrive until late afternoon and had always been accommodated. The sea of pilgrims flooding past was very strange to us compared to what we were used, and it felt very disconcerting to be walking with so many people. We were used to meeting up with a few pilgrims each day, and the initial enquirey was to see if we had a mutual language, but now we heard people identiyfing themselves, by which bus party they were with [I]"Are you one of the 37 from Chicago? No we are with the 22 from New York."[/I] Later we learned that it is not good to join onto the Frances on a weekend as there are many day or weekend walkers then. I walked on to Muxia from Santiago and this was good in that it felt like being on the camino again, rather than on such a busy commercial outing. I think our expierience on the Norte was typical from what other people said later. Hope you have a great time in 2015, it really is a fabulous walk. [/QUOTE]
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