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  1. Bridget and Peter

    Starting to plan for my del Norte camino

    You can start from anywhere! Bilbao would be as good as anywhere. There is a famous 'transporter bridge' at Portugalete, at the mouth of the inlet that Bilbao lies beside. Crossing on it would be a memorable beginning. There are albergues and cheapie hotels in aplenty on Bilbao.
  2. Bridget and Peter

    Starting to plan for my del Norte camino

    What a brilliant idea! The Norte takes you past stunning beaches, which should add to the carrots. As for which section would be best, I will look up my diaries and find a few names of places where I recall walking on or beside beaches. But doing the research and making a decision is part of the...
  3. Bridget and Peter

    camino del norte du 11/09/14 au 19/10/14

    We well might!
  4. Bridget and Peter

    camino del norte du 11/09/14 au 19/10/14

    Thank you, Tia Valeria, for your welcome back. I recall Ribadesella well, as we walked down that hill and a couple of days later back up it to take the train back to Llanes, about two and a half years ago. It was Holy Week. We also bought new walking shoes there, which will be returning with...
  5. Bridget and Peter

    camino del norte du 11/09/14 au 19/10/14

    HI Ksam We are returning to the Norte this September. We fly into Santander on wed 17th, hope to get a train or bus to Ribadesella next day and then a local bus to La Isla where we made our unexpected end in April 2012. So, setting off from La Isla on 19th. I think you will be too far ahead for...
  6. Bridget and Peter

    Pictures from the Norte

    Not very challenging. Some long stages between refuges, or refuges shut between Oct - April or May, so if you can manage to afford the odd cheap hotels (hostales etc) there'll be no problem. Beautifuil coastal scenery, fewer pilgrims, interesting places - Gernika, Bilbao, Santander, Santillana...
  7. Bridget and Peter

    Cycling Camino del Norte

    See the other thread on cycling v walking the Norte. You can absolutely cycle avoiding the motorways. The previous main road before the autoroute was built is the C643 or similar number. There are even more minor roads too which are well marked, with very little traffic. And much of the E9...
  8. Bridget and Peter

    Walking vs. biking- experienced walkers/bikers PLS respond!

    Hi, we have had to come home early due to a family bereavement, having walked just 60miles or so from San Vicente to La Isla. Two years ago we walked from Gernika to San Vicente. Only previous to that, so mostly in France were we cycling. The first bit of Spain was a bit hilly, with a long push...
  9. Bridget and Peter

    Walking vs. biking- experienced walkers/bikers PLS respond!

    We are currently walking the Norte from San Vicente. I will try to note which bits of the walking route we follow could be done on a bike and update from time to time. From San Vicente I think a cyclist on a hybrid could have done almost all the marked route, except a little bit from El...
  10. Bridget and Peter

    Walking the Camino del norte in august/ september

    We are going to be walking the Norte from San Vicente de la Barquera starting next Wed, if all works out as planned. I think that is about 300 miles, 475 ish kms,(via Gijon, not Oviedo) and we have 28 days to reach Santiago. We are hoping to start with shorter stages (16 - 20 km) and work up to...
  11. Bridget and Peter

    Walking vs. biking- experienced walkers/bikers PLS respond!

    In September 2007 we stayed at Abbaye Leffe (yes, the lager originated there and was provided) with some other cyclists from Antwerp (they wore lycra) who were aiming to arrive at Santiago in three weeks. We have still not completed our pilgrimage! I often think about what they must have missed.
  12. Bridget and Peter

    Walking vs. biking- experienced walkers/bikers PLS respond!

    We have biked from England as far as Gernika, on the Norte from Irun. We walked from Gernika as far as San Vicente de la Barquera and intend to walk from there to SdC this coming April. We are slow cyclists with hybrid bikes, using the time gained to stop and explore towns and churches. This...
  13. Bridget and Peter

    list of albergues and height(maps)

    Hello, everyone. We've been busy with other things for a while, so away from the forum, but are hatching a plan to walk the final 500 km of our camino from home in England (begun in 2007) this April. We will be starting from San Vicente. Is there any new info on albergues -especially which...
  14. Bridget and Peter

    Notes for Los Caminos del Norte Guide!

    Sorry, I can't find our copy to look and remind myself whether we worked that out. It is very confusing generally, we found, especially when we were cycling. Does it denote the telephone number? I remember things did get a bit clearer on the ground, as it were! Actually we found on the Norte...
  15. Bridget and Peter

    Santander along the coast for 9 days... where can we get?

    Agree plus plus about Santillana - we visited the Altamira cave paintings (a short taxi ride or even not long walk away) so enjoyed art from 17,000 years ago there, 8 or 9 hundred years ago in the church and from the last century in the museum for Jesus Ortero (from memory, might have got name...
  16. Bridget and Peter

    starting 20th September Irun

    Yay! Butterflies? Of course - life tends to take a new direction when you expose it to a camino! You know that! best
  17. Bridget and Peter

    Santander along the coast for 9 days... where can we get?

    As Sagalouts sort of says, you don't really need to decide on a destination. You may not have a good idea of how far you will walk each day until you are on the road. You may want to explore some town or building, or take a rest on a sandy beach, or have a day off. And why not? It's a very...
  18. Bridget and Peter

    By bike & alone, is it safe?

    I would be absolutley confident about being safe, no worries there. Yes, you will meet other cyclists, but not many. Although we cycled all the way from home (UK) to Guernica (in stages), we walked from there to San Vicente (almost at the end of Cantabria). I would recommend that you get a...
  19. Bridget and Peter

    First time pilgrim on camino del norte?

    You will be walking along the coast of the Atlantic/Bay of Biscay. it may well rain. A lot, sometimes. I would take an Altus which covers me and my pack. It opens downthe front so you can flap it around to let air in, slip it off your arms and hang it over your pack if the rain lets up a bit...
  20. Bridget and Peter

    best section of camino norte for abbreviated walk (10-14 day

    We walked from Guernica to San Vicente de la Barquera this April - not long days and several rrest days in about two weeks. Interesting places like Guernica, Bilbao, Santillana del Mar with the famous prehistoric caves at Altamira - but better than those were the wild flowers, the sea views, the...

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