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  1. michal.don

    Norte from Santander

    there is a link to the track in this wonderful thread, along with more coastal alternatives on the Norte: https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/coastal-alternatives-to-the-nortes-asphalt.49578/ or you can have a look at mapy.cz (and their app), the path is marked there, as well....
  2. michal.don

    Norte from Santander

    There's an absolutely stunning coastal variant from Santander to Boo de Pielagos, one of the highlights of the whole Norte for me. The path is a bit rugged in a few places, and it's quite a long one, but you can cut it a bit short by walking through the city of Santander to the northern coast...
  3. michal.don

    yellow arrows

    In my experience, the Norte was pretty well marked most of the time. There were a few exceptions though, I regularly checked my maps, and a couple of times I found out that I took a wrong turn and had to go back a bit. And the cities can be a bit confusing at times as well, using an online map...
  4. michal.don

    Credit cards or cash?

    Yes. I mean, there were probably some days when I did not walk past an ATM, but pretty much any reasonably sized town had one. So if you don't start looking for an ATM with the last ten or twenty euros in your pocket, I think you should be fine :) Michal.don
  5. michal.don

    Credit cards or cash?

    I walked the Norte last October. You can pay with your card almost everywhere (cafés, restaurants, hotels). Pretty much the only places that did not accept cards were the xunta albergues in Galicia and a couple of small albergues along the way. I'd suggest carrying about 50 euros in cash, and...
  6. michal.don

    Coffee in the Morning?

    I second what @Charlotte Helbig said. When I walked the Norte, I had a ritual of sorts - I always stopped for a coffee and a sweet/pastry at the first open place I met. Sometimes it was just across the street from where I slept, sometimes an hour or two of walking away, a couple of times i had...
  7. michal.don

    What to look forward to?

    First, a disclaimer - I have not walked the Francés, so I can't compare the two routes. But to offer my experience from the Norte: For me, crossing the border from one municipality to another always felt like an accomplishment (wow, I really managed to walk through the whole Cantabria, for...
  8. michal.don

    Accomodation after Pobeña

    You might take the longer route (the inland one) from Ontón and stay in Castro Urdiales. It would not be a too short day (22 km), and there are plenty of options in the city. Michal
  9. michal.don

    Accommodation between Bilbao and Santander

    Hi, I walked through this part of the Norte in October. Gronze.com was also my go-to resource to find which accomodations are open and which are closed. I agree that on this part of the camino, the albergues are not always ideally spaced apart - some days I could choose between an albergue that...
  10. michal.don

    1st Oct Start from Irun.............is this Wise?

    Sorry, I can't say whether it's wise or not. But if you decide to go for it, we might possibly meet out there, I'm starting on the 8th of October in Bilbao. By then we'll probably know if it was a good idea to go to the Norte in October :)
  11. michal.don

    Walking the norte in October

    Sorry, I have no useful insight, yet. But I'm going to the Norte in early-ish October, too. So I'll be watching what others have to say. And I'll hope for the "great" rather than the "mad or bad" :)
  12. michal.don

    Camino del Norte in October, I have a few questions. Any insight much appreciated.

    First of all - thank you all for your thoughts, I really do appreciate it. I hope that I will eventually get in a more spontaneous mood on the trail, it's just that camino-ing is a very new thing to me, and I'm not entirely sure what to expect. And I'm sure that even the most sophisticated...
  13. michal.don

    Camino del Norte in October, I have a few questions. Any insight much appreciated.

    Hello everybody, after a couple of years thinking about it, I finally made the decision to go on my first camino. I'm not a big fan of hot weather and large gatherings of people, so after a bit of researching I opted for the Camino del Norte from Bilbao (to wherever I can walk before my...

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