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I'm on the Via de la Plata just now. I've not come across any publically run albergues open yet. I doubt that it's for hygene reasons that they're closed. Bars and restaurants have been open for months.
Here's a list I've been given today just updated. No municipal albergues seem to be open but everything is moving. Still lots available for 12€ a night including double rooms. Andalousia and Extremadura have low incidences of Covid and vaccination is apace...
Well, JillGat, as a discoverer, why not branch out at Alconetar - between Casar de Caceres and Cañaveral - on the Via Dalmatia? This, indeed, may even have been a route more frequented by Pilgrims than the one which follows the motorway and which has been promoted by the EU. The Via Dalmatia...
Even in May, the higher parts can be cold. This year spring was unusually cold, often with strong winds. I had set off with very thin gloves and I had the idea of buying some plastic gloves for doing the washing up to put over them These compessed my thin gloves to nothing and the plastic...
Hello Jenny,
I loved this Camino, which was my first and I began on March 17th.
Dogs were no problem at any stage.
The weather can be very cold once you get to Bejar, right until the end of May. Indeed the Spanish have a saying about not leaving behind your coat until the 40th May (i.e. 10th...
I began on March 17th, 2010. The streams were swollen but after the first day were no problem. I'm just now blogging about, http://www.the-raft-of-corks.com/blog/category/the-raft-of-corks/the-camino-de-santiago/via-de-la-plata/
buen camino,
John
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