cozumel
Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Madrid (Easter 2019); Frances (summer 2019)
After all the great tips I got from this forum I'd like to do my part and modestly contribute to update some of the info I found here. I don't believe I always stayed at the usual stops so I'm hoping some of this might be useful. Won't be posting any distances or times or poetic descriptions about the landscape since that's been done before and oh so much better that what i could do! I'll be concentrating essentially on the logistics.
Tres Cantos-Colmenar Viejo
1) The albergue is in the basement of the Town Hall (one bunk bed) so if you arrive outside of the opening hours (like I did on a Sunday) you need to contact the Policia who take over. The phone number I used to call the cops in Tres Cantos was 912 938 092 as opposed to 912 938 002. I arrived on a Sunday and since there is no real opening time you need to negotiate a time when they can send one of their own to open and stay for the night! Of course for them, the later the better... I got lucky with 7pm! There is a small mall down the road (with a very handy AUCHAN supermarket) where you can kill time if the weather is bad since on Sundays all the bars are closed in the afternoon. No heating but I had my winter down sleeping bag so all good. The next (Monday morning) everything was closed too as you have to leave at 6pm on the dot, there is a churros place not far but no place to sit. So did a return trip by train back to Madrid for breakfast since it was raining and just waited it out.
2) I was extremely lucky to find a camino angel in Colmenar Viejo that worked at the T.O. and who opened up just for me to give me the new updated (April 2019) accommodation/services available along the camino! See attached files.
Tres Cantos-Colmenar Viejo
1) The albergue is in the basement of the Town Hall (one bunk bed) so if you arrive outside of the opening hours (like I did on a Sunday) you need to contact the Policia who take over. The phone number I used to call the cops in Tres Cantos was 912 938 092 as opposed to 912 938 002. I arrived on a Sunday and since there is no real opening time you need to negotiate a time when they can send one of their own to open and stay for the night! Of course for them, the later the better... I got lucky with 7pm! There is a small mall down the road (with a very handy AUCHAN supermarket) where you can kill time if the weather is bad since on Sundays all the bars are closed in the afternoon. No heating but I had my winter down sleeping bag so all good. The next (Monday morning) everything was closed too as you have to leave at 6pm on the dot, there is a churros place not far but no place to sit. So did a return trip by train back to Madrid for breakfast since it was raining and just waited it out.
2) I was extremely lucky to find a camino angel in Colmenar Viejo that worked at the T.O. and who opened up just for me to give me the new updated (April 2019) accommodation/services available along the camino! See attached files.