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Good morning. Tomorrow is Sunday so limited busses. We are looking to taxi from the Albergue to Hornillos de Camino) or points prior. Blabla cars have none available. If there are any suggestions or other pilgrims who would like to share a taxi with 2 senior Canadians May 5th around 9am...
We're in Boadilla del Camino right now. Turned away at Hornillos Minicipal at 1230h 2 days ago, along with at least 30 others behind us, and taxied back to Rabé as Hontanos was also full. Several big groups on the Camino right now and we seem to be walking "with" them. A bit worried about...
I did Roncesvalles to Pamplona in one hump in 2003 because of a bed shortage in Zubiri/closed refugio at Larrasoaña.
Back then catching a taxi was considered cheating so I plodded on and on and on and arrived at the outskirts of Pamplona at 9pm. Next day I staggered across the city to Cizur...
...up hiking all the way to Pamplona to get a bed. The lack of beds can continue for days. I recall one CF that pilgrims arriving at 1 pm in Hornillos del camino, but the entire town was "completo". Many pilgrims divided into small groups and ordered taxis they could ride together (and share...
...out of Orisson (only 1 person that I met in SJ "popped up" after I left Burgos and then just as promptly we were separated again after Hornillos del Caminos)
The folks that I made stronger ties with didn't materialised until way past Leon and what wound up being my Camino Family - not until...
Autobuses AMAYA operate a service from Burgos to Fromista leaving Burgos at 1330 on Saturdays. It doesn't have a stop at Hornillos del Camino but does stop at Castrojeriz. See:
https://autobusesamaya.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/ruta-autobuses-amaya-en-el-camino-de-santiago
The closest stop to...
...a serious injury. Anyways I have two days of rest left and I will try again to walk on Sunday. Just in case: what is the best way to get to Hornillos del Camino if I can’t walk? I already asked a taxi company and they said it is 47 euros on a Sunday. Is there another opportunity to get there...
...looking for them, i found quite a few locations where you can leave books and/or take a new one with you. I left some in Roncesvalles, Hornillos and San Bol for example. Guess there are plenty more i did not see or dont remember. Guess its usually guidebooks or camino related novels.
Since...
...tired, lazy and curmudgeonly... I'd love to set out on a starry or moonlit night across the meseta...
starting anywhere around Tardajos- Hornillos with a full limitless horizon on all sides and a track without car roads nearby - and maybe finish up at the ruins of San Anton, where a big sky...
Several places, mostly on the Meseta, are very suitable: Out of Hornillos, Castrojeriz, Carrion de los Condes, El Burgo Ranero, they all come to mind. But the most awesome star stargazing I have experienced was when I was piloting a sailing yacht from Bermuda to England across the Atlantic...
...get an early start because it was very hot. As I was leaving Hontanas where I spent the night a group that had started really early from Hornillos came upon me. The sun was just coming up as we reached the Convent ruins at San Anton. The light at that time of the morning on the ruins was...
...a couple days in advance. May is peak season and smaller towns do not have enough beds to cope with the influx of pilgrims (I'm thinking Hornillos, Belorado, Castrojeriz, even Frómista...). For many, trying to sort out accommodation at the end of a long hard day is part of the experience. Not...
...once, on the neck. I thought it was a spider bite and didn't realize it was a bedbug until much later, when people were eaten alive in Hornillos. I have MCS and i'm super sensitive to fragrances and complex chemicals. Sawyers leaves no odor at all that I can determine, once dry, where...
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