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I biked from Vigo down to Braga in 2017 and enjoyed the country side greatly. There are lots of well-paved back roads. I did hit a pretty busy stretch going into Braga. I did not try biking on the walking trail.
There were lots of little hotels and I mostly booked day to day with airbnb or...
I did a route from Burgos to Leon in June of 2017 roughly parallel to the walking route, aside from mistakenly going out of my way about 10 miles. I was able to find my way and avoid major highways using Google and Open Maps (maps.me), but on some back roads it was difficult to see if a route...
Burgos is a lovely town with an beautiful historic center. It also has an excellent Museum of Human evolution that runs tours to Atapuerca. There' a river running through the town and a large park on the NE side to provide some nature.
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