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  1. CaroleH

    Camino Sanabres Oct 2021

    Well done @Tezza and thank you for your post. Seeing those place names made me surprisingly emotional, with happy and sad tears. My story is very similar to yours....first camino from Salamanca to Santiago back in 2006, similar age and experience, similar stages and struggles. Since then walked...
  2. CaroleH

    Detailed planning for the Camino Sanabres, March-April 2020

    Also sort of like the tiny village of Villvieja, on the Invierno, where the servants from the Castillo de Cornatel lived. Another tangent... Julio Llamazares writes of the progressive decline of Spain's rural cultural heritage in his books. Two of them translated to English, Wolf Moon and The...
  3. CaroleH

    Detailed planning for the Camino Sanabres, March-April 2020

    Raggy, thanks for the info. Your second pic, Campobecerrus and the Ave destruction made me sad, but I can see the old rail line and the old station buildings still there, higher up. (Vertical mid line, 1/3 horizontal.) I believe during construction of The AVE, it was used to accommodate the...
  4. CaroleH

    Detailed planning for the Camino Sanabres, March-April 2020

    On the way to Llaza... Campobecerrus down on the left. Converted train station, wonderful albergue mid right. 2011.
  5. CaroleH

    Detailed planning for the Camino Sanabres, March-April 2020

    Somewhere down there in the mist is campobecerrus...from the old train station albergue.
  6. CaroleH

    Detailed planning for the Camino Sanabres, March-April 2020

    Campobecerrus albergue. 2011
  7. CaroleH

    Detailed planning for the Camino Sanabres, March-April 2020

    ...and onwards, downwards, to Llaza. . . In 2011, after sliding down the shale hillside there,on the entrance to Campobecerrus, was a newish *Albergue* sign pointing up the hill. Just had to check it out. My dream! The train station had been renovated into one of those wonderful Turistico...
  8. CaroleH

    It's getting really hot - Seville-Salamanca from May 29th 2019 onwards

    Buen camino, Alexandra. Enjoy the wonderful VdlP.
  9. CaroleH

    Via de la Plata - Pilgrim numbers in decline / flatlining

    Snap Omar ... Our first camino was also in 2006, the VdlP, only from Salamanca... a heat wave in May/June. Since then, have done VdlP or parts of it, a number of times, once from Huelva to Santiago and it remains my favourite, especially for the wonderful pilgrims we've met along the way and...
  10. CaroleH

    Best Time to walk the Via de La Plata

    Hello Raymond, Just reading your plans brings back wonderful memories or the VdlP. It's my all time favourite, a variety of landscapes over its long distance and for us, enough other pilgrims to have company at night and make lasting friendships. If you wish to do more before Seville, apart...
  11. CaroleH

    Via de la Plata starting late March 2018

    Also recommend Monastery San Martin de Pinario in Santiago. (Thanks to Laurie's recommendation/ peregrinna2000). Phone or email to book and ask for a pilgrim room on the top floor, basic, but the included breakfast is wonderful and amazing value. Plus, reception is open 24 hours and usually...
  12. CaroleH

    Via de la Plata starting late March 2018

    Yes, Hotel Simon has been used by walkers for years. Book early. We've done the VdlP and bits of it a few times, last time last year when we were early 70s. We've started from Huelva (camino del sur) and from Seville. You'll love it Arnie I'm sure, will make life-long friends, see a variety of...
  13. CaroleH

    Looking for answers to planning questions

    Hi Fudwicket, good choice to walk the VdlP. It's our favourite camino, through all sorts of countryside and with the best 'camino family' bonding. 1) We walked from Huelva on the camino del Sur but have not walked the Via Augusta from Cadiz. Hope to be doing bits of it in 2018 while staying...
  14. CaroleH

    Alert Sevilla to Guillena - River Crossing Flooded Today - April 29, 2017.

    I hope it's fine and sunny wherever you are now, pitztop. Buen camino.
  15. CaroleH

    Alert Sevilla to Guillena - River Crossing Flooded Today - April 29, 2017.

    A good warning pitztop, to be prepared, to check out weather reports or ask around the evening before. Same situation last year in 2016, but a little later in mid May, a week of constant rain, arroyo Molinos flooded ... so we stayed on the road (N630 I guess). Not as exciting and i hate road...
  16. CaroleH

    Thoughts about my upcoming walk

    I think and hope Tilly , that you are already a few days along the VdlP, and that the camino is doing its thing, enveloping you, challenging you and giving you all variety of experiences. I know we'd all love to hear how it's going, when you get the chance, but only if you wish to share. The...
  17. CaroleH

    Etapa A Gudiña -Laza on the Sanabres

    Thanks Sabine and Kinky. Good to have this update on Campobecerros. The new albergue looks really nice and... new. I was just a little attached to the train station conversion/albergue. In 2006, with no accom available in Campo, we caught the 'once-a-day' train from Campo back to A Gudiña, so...
  18. CaroleH

    Anyone in Zamora next week & walking Sanabres?

    Wondering why I'm getting these old posts (2015) in my 'Yesterday's New Topics' emails?
  19. CaroleH

    Etapa A Gudiña -Laza on the Sanabres

    Yes, sticks are a must in my book... so many uses, necessary for the hills, and for slippery slopes. The top-of-the-world walk from A Gudiña to Campobecceros, we've done twice, and it was amazing both times. It can be wet and cloudy, but not to be missed if the weather is good. The loose...
  20. CaroleH

    LIVE from the Camino From Huelva on the Camino del Sur and Via de la Plata

    Andy, I've just posted on another stream, an overall view with a few helpful hints, about the Camino del Sur. I'll try to find the link for you, but if you can't find it I'll redo it here on our old stream. After our 2011 camino being thwarted early on by torrential rain at Aracena, we went...

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