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Hotel la Posada Regia ... steps from Cathedral ... charming hotel with good quality, good value, great location, restaurant with breakfast and is authentic Spanish... (walking distance to Cathedral, train station, main street, Barrio Humedo, Plaza de Grano, Plaza Mayor) ... at Calle Regidores...
I continue to learn Spanish and will forever continue to make mistakes but I am ok with that. Over the years, a couple strategies helped me learn and improve.
One is to consult a 'verb conjugator', now easily accessible online with a very good one available free at WordReference at...
I tried to build in 'training' as a part of my everyday activities, particularly in the beginning, by walking to the subway vs taking the bus; I started with a few flights but by the end I was walking up and down 14 floors to my office every work day, multiple times as I came and went for work...
Glad it worked for you but it is very very presumptive to suggest what 'the vast majority' other pilgrims need to learn, particularly about trust and being open, and that they did not have similar enjoyable experiences, including rest & wine! Apologies but seems a very narrow lens in which to...
The Parador in Leon has played many roles in its history .. hotel, hospital, even a prison. While now it's popularity means visitors, who are not hotel guests, cannot enter many areas of the hotel, there was a time it served as a prison, thus those staying there could not leave. My family lived...
as others have stated here already there are private rooms in albergues too, they were very comfortable and allows you the same evening / dinner/ pilgrim /social experience. Booking.com, Gronze.com were also convenient and easy. my guide book had a lot detailed hotel/albergue info which was...
There are several companies offering this service. I used Jacotrans...they were great, reliable, and easy to use. You phone or reserve online the evening prior by 8pm, telling them the pick up location and drop location for the next day, and then leave a 5 Euro note in the envelope that they...
Worth seeing is the small museum / interpretation centre at Palacio del Conde Luna on Calle Regidores, it's about the Kingdom of Leon; also a visit to the beautiful Plaza del Grano, and the Cathedral has free organ concerts once weekly in the evenings (on Wedesdays if i recall ) about Sept/Oct...
Yes, in Logroño, capital of La Rioja Autonomous Community, I went into the capital / government building .... but felt immediately that it was a mistake, (it felt very serious, there was a fair amount of security and i felt out of place in my camino gear). In the lobby you have to exit a...
I stayed there Sept 2018! enjoyed it very much! i recognize Maria & Belen. The bar / patio was nice to enjoy a drink and tapa at the end of the day, with what must have been their children playing soccer and running around me which was very pleasant. I had a private room, it was very clean and...
I guess this would constitute Camino de Madrid:
Renfe Train Museum in Madrid, of course there is one train with an open bar car, at http://www.museodelferrocarril.org/index.asp,
and, the former El Aguila Beer Factory complex, not a museum but now an archive/ library / exposition centre...
this might take this off topic again, but for those who do not know, this beer tap is made of porcelain by 'Sargadelos' , a Galician porcelain / ceramic factory from the very early 1800s, gaining increasing attention for its fine prducts, both domestically and internationally. they have some...
i don't know what / where 'O-S-M' is, but if it's Camino Frances and if you're starting in SJPDP, then I'd recommend the Val Carlos route to Roncesvalles, as a change, presuming you walked the Napoleon Route previously. It's lovely, walking under covered forests for the most of the day, stopping...
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