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Please go to this tourist office, very friendly and helpfull people, they gave us a pocket guide of the route as well as a pocket guide with names and Addresses of all albergues on the Camino del Norte.
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I would like to difer on point 7, "more of a walk than a pilgrimage". To me it was more than a pilgrimage than a commercial mix of paid tourist and bus and taxigrinos. During the two times on the Del Norte, we never saw any pilgrim making use of laggage transfers and taxis. We also never had to...
I have walked 8 Caminos and never were tempted to buy a tour to enrich selfish people. Even as a rookie, me and my wife walked the del Norte from Irun, without a clue of what the Camino had in store for us. Not knowing where te next town could be or where we would eat and sleep the next night...
We have used the hard copy, that was handed out for free at the information office in Irun when we did the del Norte in 2014 and it came in quite handy and useful. They also had a similar booklet with all the accommodation establisments along the way.
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