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Hi I am also walking the Norte in mid August.This is my third time and I have booked every night mostly via booking.com and direct.I have found it is very busy with holiday makers as well as pilgrims
Hi I am walking Norte in mid August from Santander and tI have walked this Camino in full twice before.I have booked every night as it is holidays and accommodation is tight already this far ahead.I like to know I have a bed.But you could take...
I started my Camino del Norte in Biarritz last year, and highly recommend starting there or Bayonne. You get in two days of fairly flat walking before starting the climbs on the route in Spain.
Gronze has information about these early stages...
I walked from Irún last year from July to August. After a challenging first two days (San Sebastián and zarautz), I ended up booking ahead for the remainder. I would just find a place the night before and call ahead to make a reservation. I...
Yes it is okay; you do you; in 2021 I had to do that very thing after spending the previous evening in the hospital from travel fatigue. They welcomed me with open arms and honored my reservation.
Day 19, February 17th. I left the albergue in Vega de Sariega after sunrise and another long deep sleep, in a long sleeve t-shirt because the forecast was good and it gives incentive to warm up. It was a relatively flat easy walk and I stopped...
Day 17, February 15, I left Piñeres de Pria before sunrise trying to get an early start because I had a long day ahead of me. There was rain in the forecast but not until afternoon, the first part of the day was the warmest I've seen yet, it got...
I would definitely recommend using Buen Camino or Gronze Maps(it's an app that only does the map function, separate from the website) for some of the coastal routes. @Perigrina2000 on this forum has a downloadable pdf of many of them, I don't...
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