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    Granada to Córdoba walking solo? (April 2022)

    I walked this stretch (well, but for the last bit) in 2019 and, frankly, I don't remember anything particularly worrying. The way out of Granada is boring but other than that, it's a fine walk. (Just don't be like me and get lost in the mountains at sundown because you decided to take a...
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    If you start in Almería.....

    On a light note, may I add that Almeria was an important filming location in the 60s and the 70s. There's a sightseeing route of sorts that points to spots in the city that were used in filming movies like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. And the Tabernas desert just off the camino was used...
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    Granada to Córdoba in December?

    Hi, Heidi. I walked the route this March and frankly, the couple of climbs I do remember were elsewhere. There's a short but sharpish climb out of the riverbed a few kilometres past Alboloduy and the famous scramble up to Moclin, a day or two after Granada. If you don't have the time to do the...
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    Accommodation question mozarabe route

    If it's fully booked like it was when I turned up there, the village has several more accomodation options. I ended paying EUR25 for an apartment at the wonderful Casa de la Placeta del Rincon. It's in a converted 18th century barracks right underneath the castle ramparts. I had the place to...
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    Accommodation question mozarabe route

    Bear in mind that the section from Granda to Pinos Puente is quite boring and ugly. If you're not walking to Granada, you might as well take a city bus to Pinos Puente and start the walk from there. That's what I'd do. There are some suggestions in the thread that I linked to above on where to...
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    Why are there so few pilgrims on the Mozarabe

    But even 1000 pilgrims in 180 days is not that much. As one of the 94 people who walked (part of) the route this March, I never met another pilgrim on the road. There was this Dutch couple I would bump into at the albergues later in the trek, though. So yes, it is very solitary. And beautiful...
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    Winter Camino de Mozarabe

    Granted, every year may be different but when I was passing there in March they hadn't had a drop of rain since November 2018.
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    My stages on the Mozárabe from Almería -- April 2018

    There is a better-spaced alternative from Villaharta to Monterrubio de la Serena via Espiel, referenced on this forum I think. http://pamnjeff.com/caminomozarabe/variant-por-el-guadiato/ Now this could be easily broken in stages of less than 25 km each.
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    Granada-Merida-Seville-Salamanca

    For solitary walking the Mozarabe is just as fine. I walked it for 12 days in March up to Baena and never met anybody on the road (There was this elderly Dutch couple I would bump into in the albergues later on the trek three or four times, though)
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    New albergue to open between La Peza and Quéntar

    Sorry it took me so long to answer. 1/ There's a nice big sign at the Blancares de la Rambla pass where the two paths split, complete with a topo map showing the two paths (straight to Quéntar and via Tocón). 2/ To go to Tocón, one should leave the road and take a nice walking path with...
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    Anybody leaving Almeria Sunday 7th of April? Advice regarding shoes needed

    Just give them a call and mention you're walking to Santiago. Their number is in the Association guide where the cutoff point is 25 per night, I believe. So this should be a regular tarifa peregrino. They also stamped my credencial.
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    Setting off in mid-March?

    Thought I'd follow up with my stages and some brief notes. I did not walk all the way to Cordoba as I had planned, mostly due to several miscalculations on my part earlier in the walk. Ah well Day -1: Arrived in Almeria late in the evening, had a coffee with Nely from the Association and...
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    Anybody leaving Almeria Sunday 7th of April? Advice regarding shoes needed

    There are at least two albergues in the village and several more accomodation options. I came to the first one a couple of weeks ago and it was fully booked by a party for the weekend. I made several calls and ended up staying at the Casa de la placeta del rincon. This was one of the best places...
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    Anybody leaving Almeria Sunday 7th of April? Advice regarding shoes needed

    I just walked for 12 days to Baena in my regular sneakers that I wear around town at home. But of course, that depends on what you feel comfortable with.
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    Accommodation in Nacimiento (in between Alboloduy and Abla)

    I stopped at Nacimiento on the 15th, had some tapas at the Cafe bar, so it's definitely an option.
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    Leaving from Málaga info

    I haven't done the route from Malaga/ But as someone who has just come back from the Almeria camino I must say the scenery only gets better and better after Guadix. The badlands of Purullena that you hit a couple of hours out of Guadix are spectacular.
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    New albergue to open between La Peza and Quéntar

    Actually there was someone from the Association working on “improving signage” on the day I passed through. I meant to talk to him but he was gone by the time I got there. Both routes eventually lead to Tocón (and I could have easily missed that sign and stayed on the path). So it’s no big...
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    New albergue to open between La Peza and Quéntar

    I just passed it the other day and had a quick look around the place. I pressed on to Quéntar but my walking companions were the first to stay there. The place is really nice but the signage is a bit confusing, I must say. There’s a huge sign just past the Los Blancares pass where the path...
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    Setting off in mid-March?

    There are ‘Arab baths’ in Ferreira, I just passed them in the afternoon. But it was after a lazy Sunday lunch at the local asador so I was already pressed for time. Barely made it to Alquife before sundown. It is quite chilly here, what with the altitude and all. The owner of the albergue says...
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    Setting off in mid-March?

    Another quick update on the one site I really wanted to see, the Santuario de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno in Fiñana, which is the former mosque. It is either Nasrid (after the dynasty that ruled Granada, nazarí in Spanish) or Almohad (which would make it the only extant Almohad mosque in the...

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