Hi George
We are planning to walk from Cadiz to Seville around this time next year then onto VdlP. Thanks for the tips about the first two days and the scarcity of pilgrim infrastructure - something to consider.
Does anyone have any advice about good guidebooks for the Via Augusta?
thanks
Mike
Here you can download plenty of informations but i'm afraid they are available only in spanish:
http://www.caminosantiagoencadiz.org/index/ViaAugusta/ViaAugusta.php
When i walked along Via Augusta i bought a little guide but i don'remember the name: it was also written in spanish, anyway, and it wasn't better than the one i suggested you to download.
If you can't speak/read spanish, the best advice i can give you is to DL the files of the tracks and use them while walking with a smartphone and some app for hiking (i usually use OruxMaps: it's free, you can DL the maps you're interested into and then using them offline, while following the track using GPS.
Via Augusta is almost completely flat, so you just have to mind the length of the stages.
I walked Via Augusta in spring 2014 and there was just one albergue in the whole route; besides, the albergue was in Alcalà de Guadaira, just before Seville and on one branch of a two-options track that i didn't walk along (i passed through Dos Hermanas, instead). As peregrinos, we can only consider commercial accomodation on that route. I walked via Augusta in 5 days and didn't meet any other pilgrim/hiker in the whole period, neither along the way nor in the places i stayed overnight.
George-g. already told us about the quality of this "Camino" and i can entirely agree with him. Cadiz, Jerèz de la Frontera and Seville are really wonderful and interesting but the Camino is probably the worst among the ones i've walked along till now.
On the contrary, from Seville on, along Via de la Plata, i found my experience extremely enjoyable.