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So I stayed at Casa Nuñez in Campobecerros yesterday. Peregrina 2000 had reserved a room for me. There were no bedbugs. If there had been I would have known because I am very sensitive to their bites. It was not luxury accommodation by any means...
Hi Karol
Very nice update. Thank you!
I have added your blog to our Via blogs page. https://www.viadelaplataguide.net/pages/blogs-about-walking-the-via-de-la-plata
Gerald
I've walked both way several times. There's not a lot to choose between them but if you go right you're out of the city faster and, as someone else said, less road walking, bloody steep though!
I would talk to other people in the albergue in Oseira and agree with them to walk as a group for the first hour or so.
Otherwise, please don't let this worry you, these kinds of incidents are extremely rare.
I would advise against it. As mentioned elsewhere, I wouldn't be put off by the scaremongering you read. I walked from Lugo to Santiago (including the part from Melide to Santiago during the busiest time of year). In the part after Lugo...
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Clearly there's a problem about 3km after Oseira at the moment. Someone's dogs are running wild. Hopefully they'll get them under...
Hi John!
Since you haven't mentioned Oseria I presume you're going the left route.
Well, you have several options on the way to A Laxe. There's a new albergue in Piñor and after that there's Hostal Ateneo, the in Castro Dozon there's Casa...
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