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  1. isabelle304

    Arrived SDC on October 20

    Day 3 (Castilblanco de los Arroyos-Almaden de la Plata) is really demanding, what with starting with 16km of road walking with nowhere to hide from the sun! :eek: When I walked the VdlP in 2009, 3 other pilgrims and myself actually shared a taxi from Castilblanco to the entrance of El Berrocal...
  2. isabelle304

    LIVE from the Camino Starting in Seville

    Glad to see my suggestion was useful to you. As much as I loved walking the VdlP, I absolutely detested the occasional stretches of walking along busy roads - the 4km leading up to Castilblanco, the section between Caceres and Casar de Caceres, the part between Villanueva and Banos de...
  3. isabelle304

    LIVE from the Camino In Monesterio on the Vdlp

    Hi Laurie Yeah, you've started! Will be following your trip with great interest and wish you the best. Hope your feet/heels don't let you down this time! Isabelle
  4. isabelle304

    Walking the Via de la Plata

    Hi Jacqui What is it you need to know? I walked the VdlP last year in October/November and it was a great experience but quite a challenge. Do you speak some Spanish? It will definitely help. Have you walked any other route? That will help also (even if just for comparison purposes). When...
  5. isabelle304

    Guide to the Via de la Plata

    Wow... I am quite impressed by it and wish I had it with me when I walked last autumn. Well presented and nice photos. Makes me yearn to walk the whole route again!... Isabelle
  6. isabelle304

    Many Pilgrims This June?

    Kelly I walked the Via de la Plata alone from Seville to Santiago in October-November last year - that was a very quiet period on the VdlP and I did spend several consecutive days where I saw no other pilgrims and was on my own in the albergues (this won't happen to you in June!). I felt safe...
  7. isabelle304

    Anyone able to recommend guide to Via la Plata?

    From personal experience I found that it was impossible to find any one guide to the VdlP that provided all (up-to-date) info in one place. I printed this out and took it with me. It was extremely useful info for accommodation, compressed on 2 pages. However it covers only the route via...
  8. isabelle304

    Galisteo - Arco de Caparra

    Hi Laurie I tried to recreate below a hand-drawn map which I saw pinned on noticeboards of the albergues in Grimaldo and Carcaboso (excuse my lack of drawing skills!). It shows how easy it is to detour via Oliva de Plasencia to make the Carcaboso-Aldeanueva section more manageable...
  9. isabelle304

    Galisteo - Arco de Caparra

    Hi Francis If you are worried about noise from the N630, be aware that two albergues later on the route (after Zamora) are right on the side of the N630. They are Montamarta and Granja de Moreruela. Impossible to relax properly outside either of these albergues during the day but thankfully...
  10. isabelle304

    Downloadable Guide to the VdlP

    Hi Mike That's the guide I used in October-November just gone. It definitely has not been updated since 2007 and is therefore out-of-date - right from the start. For example Stage 1 (Sevilla-Guillena) makes you go via the original camino from Santiponce to Guillena - that path however is now...
  11. isabelle304

    May 2010 - will the Holy Year affect via de la Plata??

    Hi Eli As Laurie mentioned, I walked the route in October/November 2009. I got bitten by bedbugs in the Montamarta albergue on 2 November. A Japanese pilgrim I met a few days later told me she'd be bitten in the albergue of Fuenterroble de Salvatierra at the end of October. So basically I...
  12. isabelle304

    Can i expect bulls on my route from salamanca to ourense?

    During my recent VdlP, I came across this fierce-looking animal loitering on the path a few kms outside El Real de la Jara. It looked to me very much like a bull and another Spanish pilgrim who also came face-to-face with it was also convinced it was an escaped bull! Thankfully he ran off in...
  13. isabelle304

    Walking in winter

    LovingKindness I have mixed feelings about you being now so close to Santiago. On the one hand I am glad (for you) in that you have nearly reached your goal on this long and at times difficult trip from Cadiz. On the other hand I am a bit sorry (for me!) as I am really going to miss your...
  14. isabelle304

    Walking in winter

    Hang in there LovingKindness! Remember that although you have "lost" some fellow pilgrims who are now ahead of you, there will be others behind who will catch up with you. Like you I struggled with adaptation to the drastic change in temperatures (I felt really hot till Zamora, then really...
  15. isabelle304

    LIVE from the Camino Live from the Via de la Plata

    Was looking last night through the 1000-odd photos I took on the trip and thought I´d post here my 9 favourites. I´ll post more on my blog. Thanks again for all the positive messages. Isabelle One morning between Almaden de la Plata and El Real de la Jara. A herd of goats (without goatherd...
  16. isabelle304

    Walking in winter

    Hi Lovingkindness Now following your progress with interest. As you know, I just got to Santiago from Seville yesterday and for me the journey is over. I reached Zamora on 1 November - up to then things had been "lovely jubbly" as far as the weather went - but it´s from Zamora that the...
  17. isabelle304

    Leaving Ourense, which way to go?

    I thought I´d comment on this one as I stayed at the Castro Dozon albergue just last week! The night I was there was a cold, windy and wet one. However the heating in the dormitory was perfectly adequate - there was one of those loud blow heater things fitted to the wall and it warmed the room...
  18. isabelle304

    LIVE from the Camino Live from the Via de la Plata

    Wooohooooooo! I´ve made it!!! I am in Santiago!!!! And officially the slowest pilgrim EVER to walk the VdlP: 54 days!!!! After my day off in Ourense (including the obligatory trip to the hot springs, 4 or 5 kms away), I found that I really struggled to get up each day, and felt sluggish and...
  19. isabelle304

    LIVE from the Camino Live from the Via de la Plata

    Have now made it to Ourense. The strong wind I mentioned last time I posted continued to give me a hard time until Puebla de Sanabria. I then had several cloudy but calm days from Puebla to A Gudiña, and since A Gudiña it´s been pretty much rain, rain, and more rain. I discovered between A...
  20. isabelle304

    LIVE from the Camino Live from the Via de la Plata

    I am glad you had such a good experience in Montamarta but it was just chance you happened to meet those interesting people there - you could have met them anywhere. I imagine at the time you visited, when the weather was warmer and the albergue had maybe been cleaned within the week, the...

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