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  1. Rita Flower

    LIVE from the Camino Camino Sanabres 2024

    I used Gerald’s guide and the Camino Ninja app in 2022 and it was fine. It’s a complete puzzlement as to what happened to you. These days I try and look at the sorts of experiences you had as God’s practical joke. This makes me laugh, lightens my mood and helps me to maintain some equanimity...
  2. Rita Flower

    Sevilla

    Congratulations. Those of us ‘down under’ know what it takes to just get to one’s starting point. Enjoy. If you have time see if you can catch some Flamenco in Sevilla and visit the Alcazar Palace which has the most beautiful Moorish architecture and history. VDLP is my most loved Camino to...
  3. Rita Flower

    Puebla de Sanabria - worth the cost?

    I really like this stop. I stayed at Hotel los Perales and while it looks a bit of a shambles on the outside it is excellent inside and houses many collectables from the region and possibly beyond. A suit of armour greets you at the entry. It was November and cold but the heating came on in the...
  4. Rita Flower

    Bed race on the VDLP…

    Yes - I used to forget what day it was and got stuck a few times.
  5. Rita Flower

    Bed race on the VDLP…

    Perfectly true except when the albergue is unexpectedly closed - twice for me - or the town doesn’t have one. I found that while I could generally just turn up in a town on the Via there were a few times (edit- a number of times) when that didn’t work.
  6. Rita Flower

    Bed race on the VDLP…

    When one is walking 1007 km taking a bus doesn't seem too bad. I did it twice due to accomodation problems in autumn - once due to a giant fiesta in Zafra that filled up the next town in which the albergue was closed - and then the 30+ km section past the Embalse de Alcántara. Other notes -...
  7. Rita Flower

    Arco de Caparra hotel transfer

    I just walked the few extra kms to Hotel Jarilla. It seemed easier than calling for a pick up etc. And the walk out is fine too.
  8. Rita Flower

    Valdesalor - picking up the albergue keys from bar, etc

    I stayed there in 2022. Was a great little town and albergue. I think it was already open when I arrived. As above I think it is just as you enter town. I can't remember what I did about registration and payment.
  9. Rita Flower

    Pilgrim numbers on the Via are down slightly

    I think Spring is a peak time for the Via - I walked out of Sevilla in late September and there were days when I met no-one and was a solo pilgrim in the Albergue.
  10. Rita Flower

    Pilgrim numbers on the Via are down slightly

    Maybe encourage people you meet to get a Compostela - that's how the track numbers and if it's a third or fourth Camino people stop getting the completion docs. There are probably more on the Via that official numbers indicate.
  11. Rita Flower

    Day T-2 in Sevilla

    Oh thanks for the info about pilgrim mass. I missed this when I was in Sevilla. And I think I would choose Hotel Simon next time - I got my credential there and it looked great. May you have a blessed Camino
  12. Rita Flower

    Route from fuenterroble de salvatierra

    My journal tells me I walked to Pedrosillo - 18.5 km. From my notes, it looks I turned off the main Camino - it’s well marked going off to the right - through some fields, with plenty of gates, and then up a hill to the little town. You go to the house with yellow door to get the key for the...
  13. Rita Flower

    Via de la Plata - Recumbent...?

    Sorry my text vanished when I posted the photo. I hope you get some replies from people who have had firsthand experience. However, I did meet a man on the Via in 2022, who was travelling on just such a bicycle. He was very impressed that I was walking and I was very impressed at his mode of...
  14. Rita Flower

    Via de la Plata - Recumbent...?

  15. Rita Flower

    T-11 Days

    I stopped at Santiponce/ Italica on my first day out of Sevilla. The albergue is great and there is a lovely little bar filled with bull fighting memorabilia. I don’t agree with bull fighting but the ambiance and food were great. I missed the ruins as opening hours closed for the day at 2.00...
  16. Rita Flower

    A Quiet Camino Route?

    I started from Sevilla on 22 September. In the early weeks it was hot but quite manageable by starting before dawn - around 6.30 and finishing by 1.00 pm at the latest. I had days when there was only me - both walking and in albergues. There were other days when there were more people with...
  17. Rita Flower

    LIVE from the Camino Salamanca and resuming my Mozarabe/VDLP/sanabres camino

    Sanabres is lovely with plenty of accommodation except for one 30 km stage after the monastery at Oseira. Blessings and good fortune for Easter: pilgrim-only albergues will have beds. Buen Camino
  18. Rita Flower

    Camino bug is nibbling

    I agree - start in Sevilla. When are you walking - weather in the form of heat is a critical element on the VDLP during July and August - and even earlier or later. I started 22 Sept and had some 36 C days where I had to start in the early dark and finish by midday to miss the worst of it...
  19. Rita Flower

    New Official River Route from Requejo to Padornelo

    The route along the river would be impossible if it was raining a lot so be careful in May. And the route along the river seem to have two sections. When I got to the second part where I could get off the road, a man with cows was yelling in my direction, so I decided this was obviously a clue...
  20. Rita Flower

    New Official River Route from Requejo to Padornelo

    I walked in 2022 and loved this stage. I walked along the river initially - which was a bit soggy but lovely - then a bit of road and then off to the right along the ‘scenic route’ which was really beautiful- a highlight of the Sanabres.

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