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I stayed at Casa Fernanda's last summer, and I don't understand some of these comments. "An after-dinner show?" That did not happen the night I was there. There were drinks in the garden before dinner, and then dinner inside the house, and then some people sang a few songs afterward. None of...
The short answer is "no, but". A lot depends on Covid restrictions and how many albergues are open and what the capacity restrictions on them are. Last summer, on the del Norte and Primitivo, it was advisable to book a day or two ahead because many albergues were closed (all of the public ones...
That sounds exactly like the people who refuse to wear a mask or to get vaccinated during a pandemic.
We are still in a pandemic. Many albergues are closed or are only operating at partial capacity. This means that making knowing which ones are open, which ones take reservations, etc. is...
I have not walked the Portuguese, so take all this with a grain of salt. I walked the Norte and Primitivo last year, and what follows is based on that experience.
It's unclear if you are planning to take a smart phone or to just go with paper maps, but I would take a smart phone so that you...
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