I’m happy about this. As an hospitalera, you don’t want to deny entry to anyone who presents themselves looking for a bed for the night, but keeping the albergues for pilgrims walking with their backpacks ought to be the priority at least. And yes to sleeping bags too.
Take a look at the Wise Pilgrim app. It will give you lots of options for places to stay with phone numbers and their opening months, like “all year,” “April to October.”
Hi! Sorry. Just seeing this. It’s “Buen Camino! Tips From a WINTER Pilgrim.” It’s both a travel memoir of my last Camino in November-December ‘21 and tips about how to do the walk safely off season.
Not a bit. In fact, I've been walking the Camino since 2009 and have never walked the entire route in one go, St. Jean to Santiago. There are several short bits I've never walked. I've always tried to focus on just that one day. When you have the Camino all to yourself and it's not raining and...
My favorite time to walk! I’ve done it several times and wrote a book filled with winter walking tips. You might find it helpful - on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3SDF9RM/?tag=casaivar02-20
I love to walk in the winter - my all out favorite time. I can also recommend you look for municipal albergues in the larger towns which tend to be open year 'round, and for private albergues in the smaller ones which cannot support a large municipal. I try to stay off the suggested stops too...
Half and half. Some days, when I was in a big enough town, I'd just walk into the municipal albergue. But Omicron was starting in the news and staying in a big dorm made me nervous. Many fewer pilgrims of course, but I used Wise Pikgrim to scout what was available and the second half of my walk...
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