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  1. Texas Walker

    The Norte gets very quiet after Avilés

    Which is the Palancas route? I'm unfamiliar with this nickname. Thx BC
  2. Texas Walker

    Which route after Soto de Luiña

    We walked the high route in 2018. If the weather had cooperated it would have been gorgeous. Lesson for us was: don't assume that the morning rain is just for a little bit. That day it was rainy all day, and in the pastures on top, it felt like the rain was falling upwards into our faces. NB the...
  3. Texas Walker

    Train Option on the Norte from Boo to Mogro

    I remember that segment. The bridge is really, *really* long with basically nowhere to jump except into the river if the train comes. Common sense applies here: hop the train at Boo de Pielagos over to Mogro, then get off and continue walking the Spanish countryside. (By the way, having seen the...
  4. Texas Walker

    "I'm leaving on a jet plane"...Camino #7

    It's a year for walking the fallen 2020 pilgrimages, isn't it. DH and I are planning to do the Via de la Plata, the trip that fell when the borders closed in 2020. BC fellow peregrina
  5. Texas Walker

    2023 Dreaming - how's the weather in May on the Norte?

    Hello, fellow peregrina! We walked in 2017-2018 (injury stopped the first one) and for the first half or so, everywhere we went people said it was the winter that wouldn't quit. (Arrived in Spain appx 5/19) Then towards the end, it finally got warm. HTH! BC!
  6. Texas Walker

    LIVE from the Camino Accommodation experience, first 8 nights

    Besides various threads here on the board, you can look at Gronze.com, and you can get guidebooks...we got 2 and worked with Gronze too before we left. BC
  7. Texas Walker

    Accommodation, Markina-Xemein and Guernica

    Monasteries didn't use to do reservations. These days, who knows? We stayed at the Benedictine sisters' convent in Markina in 2018, had evening meal out on the town. The enclosed courtyard helps your clothes to get nice and dry.
  8. Texas Walker

    Bilbao - Casto Urdiales

    Seeing as how Portugalete is basically a suburb of Bilbao these days, we took the metro to Portugalete in the (fairly) early morning and started walking there. The way which is a local run/bike path was easy walking. We got into Castro-Urdiales around maybe 3? I forget exactly, close to the...
  9. Texas Walker

    What's going on? Camino del Norte hard?

    I am always bemused by the people who plan their Camino walk so tightly, with a very short stay in Santiago, and with no spare days in case something happens. Perhaps it's because I'm becoming old, but we always build in some extra days and some rest days, just in case. If you get a trip-ending...
  10. Texas Walker

    What's going on? Camino del Norte hard?

    Re the downhill into Deba: in 2017 we had to end our walk at Deba (injury). We resumed in 2018 at S Sebastian. At Deba, where the billboard announcing their carefully conserved section of original Roman road is, there is asphalt, kinda steep looking, going to the left and curving. If your knees...
  11. Texas Walker

    ?Non-Cliffy options for Camino Norte

    Speaking as a really uncoordinated person, I didn't have any scary moments of the teetering-on-cliffs type on the Norte. Hard, difficult moments, yes. But there was always a foot or three where there was a cliff, that separated the path from the fall. And I used my sticks. I think the people...
  12. Texas Walker

    Does it get better?

    Does the Norte get easier after Zarautz? Yes, but not right away. (We needed 2 years to walk this one, DH fell at the entry into Deba and was injured in 2017. We went back last year, restarted at S. Sebastian. Didn't sleep in Zarautz this time, we liked that little walk along the water into...
  13. Texas Walker

    Conflict of information on Albergues - Wise Pilgrim/Gronze/Village to village guide

    When you get there, go to the Turismo and ask. They will have the most up to date info. (We hit Zumaia at about breakfast time--0900--and enjoyed tortilla de patata and cafe leche.) In 2017 when we started this route, we stayed in Zarautz (two towns back) at a pension referred by the helpful...
  14. Texas Walker

    Which route from Soto de luiña

    Yes, we walked it last year. The day started out with light rain and we (mistakenly) thought it would clear up. At the top we were fogged in due to low clouds and rain sometimes blowing uphill at us. Much of the way is gas company service roads, it looks like, with steep slope on one side and a...
  15. Texas Walker

    Just bought my plane ticket and a new Camino.

    In San Sebastian, if you go to the Turismo first, they will help you find a place. And, unlike many of the other Turismo offices, they're willing to help you reserve (same day) as apparently the only way to reach the pension owners is by working thru, I think it was, booking.com. First week is...
  16. Texas Walker

    Shipping backpack from home to Spain

    There are other options possibly. Have you considered: pick up your luggage in Barcelona, find a pension, and fly over the next day on earliest flight? Pick up luggage in Barcelona, go to train station, and take that? (There might be a sleeper option.) If you settle on this, rates are cheaper in...
  17. Texas Walker

    "Worst" stages- if you had to skip a few....

    First observation, re Stage 4: You have a typo on your distance from Deba to Markina. It's listed as 27 km, not 23 as on this list. Second observation, also re Stage 4: while some of it, though steep, is somewhat workable for a stroller, some is impossible. I believe that was the day with the...
  18. Texas Walker

    Northern Caminos: Updates, Accommodation List

    Hello. I greatly appreciate the update information on your site--it helps to fill out the book a bit. Unfortunately I didn't think to check it all out before leaving in 2017...DH had a trip ending injury (fracture) at approach to Deba on the Norte. Recently I was reading down the updates and hit...
  19. Texas Walker

    Walking the Norte? Best to read this page first...

    Some people have a hard time understanding that there are different kinds of hikes, with different objectives. On the Frances in 2014, we encountered a Spanish gentleman who had done some of the AT. He hated it. He was apparently looking for more of the albergue-to-albergue or...
  20. Texas Walker

    Doing Norte route - hopefully Spring or Autumn 2018 - but getting freaked out by weather...

    It is also important to consider whether the latitude you live at is even remotely similar to the latitude of Northern Spain. (Ahem.) It's entirely possible to think that it will be weather kind of like the analogous season where you live, and be totally surprised by the weather you get. Not to...

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