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[QUOTE="David Tallan, post: 1178877, member: 31995"] I don't think avoiding making reservations is "like a Peregrino". Peregrinos (and Peregrinas) come with all styles of Caminos, with and without reservations. Let's try and avoid straying into Rule 3 territory, shall we? That said, while your described scenario sounds marvellous, it relies on a match between supply and demand for accommodations that doesn't always exist (as we all saw at the beginning of May). The one thing that is missing in your Utopia is "I can only make it to Carrion de los Condes but all the beds here are taken and it is 17 km to Calzadilla de la Cueza and I don't know if there will be beds there when I arrive." I'm not sure that is so preferrable to your Maneru/Estella situation. In both cases the solution is the same. You aren't where your needed bed is when you need it. In any situation where the demand for beds exceeds the supply, some people will be left without. It is inevitable. Getting rid of reservations will not make it magically disappear. Whether the available beds go to those who reserve ahead, requiring people to plan ahead, or they go to those who arrive first, requiring people to leave early or walk shorter distances, someone is going to have to do something they may not want to to get a bed and someone is going to have to go without or go somewhere else. The modern system of albergues and credencials collecting stamps and not accepting reservations has not existed for 1,000 years. Just read accounts from those who walked in the 1970s. I happen to have one of the first of such credencials, issued by Los Amigos del Camino de Santiago Estrella. It has precisely 22 named spaces for stamps between Roncesvalles and Santiago (including, for example, one for Cebreiro where there was no albergue at the time). Over the past 1,000 years, I'm sure some pilgrims walked without reservations. I'm sure they also slept sometimes by the side of the road. I'm sure that there were also wealthier pilgrims who sent people ahead to ensure there was a bed and a meal waiting for them at the inn when they arrived. You can be sure that when Ferdinand and Isabella made their way to Santiago de Compostela in the 15th century they were expected every night where they arrived. And that works for you. Great! Keep doing it if it makes you happy. But just because it is the best way for you doesn't make it the best way for everyone. [/QUOTE]
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