maritr
New Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Some since 2002 and hopefully more to come
Hello all!
(By the way when do you stop being a ”new member”? Been one since 2010…)
I have a dream - to walk the Mozárabe from Almería this year. If only the covid will calm down! As I’m now 70+ , I feel that it’s really time. Who knows when my body doesn’t want to, or isn’t able to, take me on camino walks any longer?
But I have questions about this camino. Have read different threads and searched info on the net, but need some things sorted out:
1. CAMINO GUIDE: is it really so that there are no guides, in the form of a book, on this camino? I can use digital guides but so prefer to as well have something written, for planning etc. And it’s difficult to find out which guide to use, which one that is the best and most updated. I really like the ones with detailed descriptions of what streets to walk, when to turn, what to look out for etc. Walked from Granada in 2011 and used Alison Raju’s guide. But it must be outdated now. Any tips here?
2. Reading about this camino I’ve been a bit confused as there seems to be different organisations helping pilgrims in Almería and onwards. La Asociación Jacobea de Almería - Granada Camino Mozárabe (almeriajacobea.es), and La asociación de Amigos del Camino de Santiago de Almería Almería Jacobea (asociaciónalmeriajacobea.org). The first one claiming that they’re most updated and like “in charge” of this camino. (If I got it right…) In threads here on the forum people have been talking about the amigos, which seems to be the other one. So help me out! Which one should I use, trust etc. Maybe both?
Looking forwards to your answers!
(By the way when do you stop being a ”new member”? Been one since 2010…)
I have a dream - to walk the Mozárabe from Almería this year. If only the covid will calm down! As I’m now 70+ , I feel that it’s really time. Who knows when my body doesn’t want to, or isn’t able to, take me on camino walks any longer?
But I have questions about this camino. Have read different threads and searched info on the net, but need some things sorted out:
1. CAMINO GUIDE: is it really so that there are no guides, in the form of a book, on this camino? I can use digital guides but so prefer to as well have something written, for planning etc. And it’s difficult to find out which guide to use, which one that is the best and most updated. I really like the ones with detailed descriptions of what streets to walk, when to turn, what to look out for etc. Walked from Granada in 2011 and used Alison Raju’s guide. But it must be outdated now. Any tips here?
2. Reading about this camino I’ve been a bit confused as there seems to be different organisations helping pilgrims in Almería and onwards. La Asociación Jacobea de Almería - Granada Camino Mozárabe (almeriajacobea.es), and La asociación de Amigos del Camino de Santiago de Almería Almería Jacobea (asociaciónalmeriajacobea.org). The first one claiming that they’re most updated and like “in charge” of this camino. (If I got it right…) In threads here on the forum people have been talking about the amigos, which seems to be the other one. So help me out! Which one should I use, trust etc. Maybe both?
Looking forwards to your answers!