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[QUOTE="DoughnutANZ, post: 1179142, member: 87627"] Disagree, it is not possible to be further away from Spain than Aotearoa New Zealand and still be on the planet and I don't book. I buy my ticket home 12 weeks after I arrive in the EU so that I don't overstay my visa while having one week flexibility if I need more time. This is exactly what I do. This time around I had some ideas for Caminos that I wanted to walk but no fixed plans except an Airbnb for my late night arrival in Madrid and a booking for my stay at Monasterio Santo Domingo de Silos (because they demanded that I chose fixed dates). The rest I worked out as I went along and ended up walking three Caminos and doing other stuff to enjoy Spain. There were times when I was doing things that I hadn't particularly considered such as a semi-enforced stay in Valladolid while waiting for a foot injury to heal. In this case my Camino simply self adjusted around the new activity and I was able to enjoy Valladolid. I had no plans to start with and so no plans needed to be changed. I suspect that anxiety drives some people who feel a need to reserve ahead. Interestingly, when those people think about the option of not reserving they put themselves "into" the situation and imagine how they would cope with uncertainty (in this case by being on their phone to try to relieve the uncertainty). In reality, I and others I have observed don't react this way. What I do is that when I get a signal from my body that it could be time to stop then I have a quick look on Gronze to see what lies ahead and then I walk to one of the options and enquire about a bed. In four Caminos including one in 2019 which still holds the record for the most busy full year, only once did I not get a bed at the first place that I stopped and on that day I had to walk 40 metres to an albergue almost next door that did have a bed. This simply is not true! It is an idea that is propagated by people who like to repeat rumours, for their own gratification and, as far as I can tell, seems to arise from the limited experience of themselves or others from situations where a person didn't have the skills to find an alternative solution when confronted with the lack of a bed at a particular place. Some people like to reserve, others do not. Both categories have their own reasons for their choice. I know what I prefer but fortunately for all of us not everyone is like me. Great, let each of us decide for ourselves, but please, please don't go around preaching that the way that you like to organise your Camino is somehow mandatory because of "over crowding" or something else that magically appeared after Covid. That some people liked to reserve ahead existed well before Covid. There is no new normal. This is a rumour pushed by the inexperienced. [/QUOTE]
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