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    LIVE from the Camino On the Vía Künig

    I'm back on the Via Künig next week. This time with my wife. This camino is going to take off BIG TIME very soon. It's spectacular.
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    Planning a “25 km or less” Camino on the Invierno

    There's a lot more up-to-date information about places to eat/drink on my recent thread. Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio
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    Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio

    Of course! In the pedestrian street (Rúa Cardenal Rodrigo de Castro) you have Restaurante el Polar. Just further down the street you have Restaurante Cardenal. They have a beautiful restaurant (fantastic menú del día) in the Hotel Cardenal in the next street down (rua das Hortas), with great...
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    Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio

    No signs of anything when I wandered through Bendilló a couple of weeks ago. It was pretty early in the morning, though, but - as you say - they only open if they are up from Madrid. One of these years I will find the chiringuito down in O Soldón open! I have walked the Invierno (or at least...
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    Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio

    Talking of accommodation, I'm lucky enough to have friends in Puente de Domingo Flórez, so if I end up there I have a place to stay for the night. La Torre is a bit too expensive in my opinion. Casa Rosa is lovely, but the last time I stayed there I had three ladies from Castellón for company...
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    Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio

    That was my intention! You can also buy some things in Bar Estanco Inés in Santalla. So is her brother, Saturno. Marisol has a bit of a problem with sciatica and needs to go into Ponferrada for physiotherapy a couple of times a week. I'm sorry their bar is closed in Borrenes but good to know...
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    Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio

    I would not be telling a lie if I said that I DID stop in quite a few of the places, though, all in the interest of gathering information for the forum and Invierno-lovers!
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    Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio

    I didn't have time to go in and ask, as my train back to Ponferrada was leaving a few minutes later, but the bar was full. However, from what I can gather, the hotel IS open. I understand what you mean about choosing between a meal in Casa Aroza and a shower/clothes wash in San Clodio. The...
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    Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio

    This will be a fairly long post about places to stop for a drink and/or food between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio. My football team, Unionistas de Salamanca, were playing two consecutive away games, against Cultural León and Ponferradina, so I thought I’d stay up there and do some walking...
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    Some difficulty now (Feb 2024) on the camino de invierno

    I was in Borrenes last Monday, at the Hotel Rural Cornatel Medulas, and Saturno warned me about the fact that the camino was 'intransitable'. Another solution is to walk down to Restaurante Las Ventas and then into Carucedo and back up the road towards Las Médulas. It adds on another couple of...
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    Casa Rosa in Puente de Domingo Flórez?

    Casa Rosa is definitely OPEN.
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    Casa Rosa in Puente de Domingo Flórez?

    I'll be back on the Invierno next week (I think this is my twelfth!), but I won't be staying in Puente de Domingo Flórez this time. Long stage from Las/as Médulas to O Barco. However, I'll stop off to say hello to everyone I know in Puente, and I'll let you all know what's going on there. Buen...
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Vía Künig

    I walked the Via Künig, only the stages from Piedrafita to Lugo, just before Christmas. Following in the footsteps of Alan Sykes and Álvaro Lazaga, I stopped in the same places: Piedrafita, Becerreá, O Corgo and Lugo. It really is a beautiful walk, especially when the weather was unexpectedly...
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    Braga to Ribadavia Twice This Month!

    Second Walk Back home in Salamanca. The same 6 stages once again, but this time with my good friends Juanjo and Victor (which definitely means more beer and wine!). The only difference with my first walk a couple of weeks ago is that this time we stayed in the Hotel Miracastro in Castro...
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    Braga to Ribadavia Twice This Month!

    There were two workers also staying at the Casa do Conde. They are reforming the top floor, and it was touch and go whether we would have rooms available for this coming Friday, but they phoned me (they're on holiday in Cádiz!) to say that the work won't start until October. Lovely people and a...
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    Braga to Ribadavia Twice This Month!

    That would be Luma Grill. We tried to have something to eat there on the Sunday evening, but they told us that we would have to wait 45 minutes. We therefore crossed back to the Lusitano and had an excellent (and cheap) cheeseboard and a couple of glasses of wine.
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    Braga to Ribadavia Twice This Month!

    Day 6 Breakfast at 7 o'clock and we set off around 07:30. I forgot to say that 3 Portuguese pilgrims had turned up in Cortegada the previous evening. Nice people. They had arrived in Castro Laboreiro in the early afternoon and had then taken a taxi all the way to Cortegada (60+ euros!)...
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    Braga to Ribadavia Twice This Month!

    Day 5 They didn't start serving breakfast until 8 o'clock in the hotel, so we left later than we would have preferred, knowing that this was going to be a long long stage. We stocked up on a few things like fruit and cakes from the buffet, as there is absolutely nothing all the way to Cortegada...
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    Braga to Ribadavia Twice This Month!

    My swollen ankle kept me away from doing any more walking that day, but next Thursday I'll be back there and will heed your advice!
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    Braga to Ribadavia Twice This Month!

    Day 4 7 o'clock breakfast in the Lusitano bar, then off down to cross the River Limia and climb up behind the gasolinera. Entrimo (also called Terrachán) has a few places to stop at. Then you head off the road and down to a small bridge and stream before going up the other side to A Pereira...

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