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  1. mmmmartin

    Announcement Refuge Orisson

    I'm in logrono, so far everyone seems to be booking ahead at least one or two days. Tent used only once, it's a pain to carry
  2. mmmmartin

    Announcement Refuge Orisson

    Orrisson has accepted my booking and sent an email with a link to click for payment but the link doesn't work, it simply says on the next page there is no method of payment. I've emailed them pointing out this fact but had no reply. Anyone else having the same problems?
  3. mmmmartin

    Sarria - Is a stop over worth it?

    If you're UK based, my advice is to not buy a return ticket until about a week or two before you think you might go back. Then you can hang about wherever you want. Some days you'll feel like a long day but others will be rainy and you'll hide in a nice pension and sleep most of the time. I'd...
  4. mmmmartin

    Cooking on the Frances currently?

    On the Frances last September there were very few albergues offering communal meals. By the time October arrived the number of pilgrims was almost zero, and very many more albergues were shut, as were the restaurants - and i was in private rooms eating supermarket salads on my own. Restaurants...
  5. mmmmartin

    LIVE from the Camino Albergue Lama

    It's a tedious road walk yet you go through trabadelo where there is casa suzie. If you wish there's always a bus (late afternoon takes 20 minutes) from villafranca up the hill to a village near ocebreiro then a flattish walk into ocebreiro.
  6. mmmmartin

    LIVE from the Camino Albergue Lama

    https://alberguelamas.business.site/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=referral The website of albergue lamas
  7. mmmmartin

    O Cebreiro Casa Navarro

    Suggest you print the email on paper and put it in an envelope then post it to them.
  8. mmmmartin

    Doing the Camino Frances.

    That parador looks almost worth the €100 a night.
  9. mmmmartin

    Doing the Camino Frances.

    Am desperately trying - and failing - to look uninterested and not jealous in the slightest. Details please.....
  10. mmmmartin

    September camino!!

    I'm flying in mid September to do the Frances. The EHIC card still works for me until January 1. Next year there'll be no EHIC coverage, nor will there be any health insurance because the UK govt will say no non-essential travel so health insurance will not cover you. I'm going while the going...
  11. mmmmartin

    Easy and comfortable options from Sarria

    My little Camino family of four stumbled upon Booking.com and used it for Sarria into Santiago. Every night we rented a flat that was no less than 200 yards from the Camino, for about €20 per person, so maybe 80 per night. For that we had two or three bedrooms, two loos, and could cook in a...
  12. mmmmartin

    Your opinion is greatly appreciated on our first Camino

    There is zero chance of you walking any Camino in 2020, and a tiny chance of it in 2021. Spain won't let you in. There are no flights anyway. Forget this idea for a few years at least.
  13. mmmmartin

    Easter 2020

    This post by me didn't age well, not at all.....
  14. mmmmartin

    2021 Holy Year

    Agreed, on the meseta in 2018 when the forecast was 38 degrees C I started walking at 6am and by 12 noon was inside the albergue. A siesta during the first part of the day made me feel like a local Spanish person, they all do the same. And walking in the warmth of the darkness before dawn then...
  15. mmmmartin

    2021 Holy Year

    Thanks. I stand corrected. (I must have misheard a conversion with Don Segundo the cathedral dean when I was there in October.)
  16. mmmmartin

    2021 Holy Year

    Others, older and wiser than I am, will know the dates but the actual holy year is not the calendar year. It might start at Easter or maybe on the saint's birthday. But it doesn't run from January 1 to December 31. So that increase in numbers won't start on January 1.
  17. mmmmartin

    Easter 2020

    You are unlikely to be on your own, esp if you team up with people who you'll inevitably meet at albergues. And as for the risk: when doing a Camino you are at the greatest danger when driving to the airport to take your flight to Spain.
  18. mmmmartin

    2021 Holy Year

    About 500,000 are expected to want compostelas in 2021, up from about 350,000 in 2019. You can expect the about half will walk only from Sarria. If you're on the Frances you might not even notice an increase in numbers until Sarria, and from there you can head south and join the Mozarabe (in...
  19. mmmmartin

    Is anyone doing the Camino without any specific purpose

    If you don't know why you do it when you started, you'll know when you get there. Last year some 350,000 compostelas were issued: I'd bet every single one of those finishers had a different reason. Some do it for the daily distance challenge, some for the deeply religious aspect, some for the...
  20. mmmmartin

    Walking from Sarria

    My only advice would be to allow more time than you think you'll need, because there may be times when you like a town and so will want to start late, have a long breakfast, walk a short distance then have a relaxing lunch in the sunshine and then stop for the day. This is tricky if you have a...

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