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  1. Nick Barlow

    For Sale/Wanted Top Albergue of the French Way for Sale in Hospital de Orbigo

    One of the favourite places I stayed last year, I hope whoever takes it on can match your dedication in providing it (and your patience and calmness in dealing with 'difficult' pilgrims that I saw in action)
  2. Nick Barlow

    Camino Irritants

    The sound of poles that bothers me is the click, scrape, click, scrape, scra-click, scrape, click of someone who's decided they have to walk with two poles but doesn't know how to properly use them so isn't getting any benefit from them...
  3. Nick Barlow

    Beds available Sarria to SdC?

    The Primitivo was relatively quiet up till when I finished last Wednesday and no problems in getting accommodation- I did book ahead sometimes, but there was no real need to and didn't hear of anywhere being full so no need for the bed race. But also, I didn't see lots of people on the sections...
  4. Nick Barlow

    Albergues between Ponferrada and Santiago

    A Reboleira in Fonfria was really nice, and rhe communal dinner was one of my favourite from last year - we had to ask then to stop bringing out more food as everyone was so full!
  5. Nick Barlow

    Beds available Sarria to SdC?

    I'm on the stretch from Melide right now finishing the Primitivo and there are lots of spaces outside the main towns - there were 6 of us in the Albergue-Pension in Boente on Sunday and only a handful in my Salceda pension ladt night. Didn't see too many people while I was walking either. From...
  6. Nick Barlow

    Recommended Accommodation Logrono to burgos

    For preivate albergues, I stayed at Cuatro Cantones in Belorado and La Plazazuela Verde in Atapuerca, both of which were really nice and comfortable. The latter looks amazing too, an old cottage that's being renovated by hand, with wooden cubby hole bunks that are really spacious and have...
  7. Nick Barlow

    What Was The Camino Like Pre-Resurgence in Popularity?

    My first time was this year, but on the way I stopped at Refugio Gaucelmo in Rabanal where they had a little book they'd put together in 2016 to celebrate it being open for 25 years. If you stay there, try to read it as it was really fascinating about the experience back then - one of the...
  8. Nick Barlow

    What is between Sarria and Santiago? And Muxia?

    I was walking this May, so not as busy (or quite as hot!) as it is now from what I hear, but stopping between the 'main' towns meant I missed a lot of the crowds until I synced up with them again at Arzua and O Pedrouzo. I found walking through Portomarin and Palas du Rei during the late morning...
  9. Nick Barlow

    People walking 35 - 40 KM per day

    One thing that I found on the Camino is that there'll always be someone who walks faster than you, does more in a day, started further away etc etc and it's not a competition. I met several people who walked much longer than me (35-40km to my 25 average) but that's how they've chosen to do it...
  10. Nick Barlow

    Camino awesome, Santiago not so much

    I was talking about this with people after I finished a couple of weeks ago and it occurred to me that it feels like a variety of the experience they call Paris Syndrome. It's where tourists (usually from outside Europe) have built up an image of Paris from the media and then go into shock when...
  11. Nick Barlow

    Cafe movil after Carrion de Los Condes open now?

    I did the section from Carrion on April 22nd and there was a van parked halfway that might have been a drink stop, but it was the day it just continually rained so no one was stopping there to find out if they were actually in business.
  12. Nick Barlow

    Albergues at 100% capacity ?

    I guess I'm part of some sort of Easter wave and it's been mixed. All the beds in Reliegos were taken last night and people had to go on to Mansilla for spaces but I'm in Albergue San Francisco (the Capuchin albergue) in Leon tonight and it's really quiet.
  13. Nick Barlow

    Valcarlos/Napoleon and start date

    I'm starting a few days after you (April 6th), and I'm working on the assumption that I'll be going via Valcarlos through to Roncesvalles on that first day, but plans might change when I'm standing at the junction in SDPP having to decide! I like the idea of starting off on the quieter route...

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