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    Pensión As Viñas has re-opened in Pobra de Brollón

    This is great news! Just like @KinkyOne I spent quite a few afternoons with the owner and his son in the garden by the side of the pensión, and I can assure you that there was plenty of beer and aguardiente! I will be back on the Invierno in a few weeks' time, carrying on from where I left off...
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    Planning a “25 km or less” Camino on the Invierno

    There's a lot more up-to-date information about places to eat/drink on my recent thread. Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio
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    Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio

    Of course! In the pedestrian street (Rúa Cardenal Rodrigo de Castro) you have Restaurante el Polar. Just further down the street you have Restaurante Cardenal. They have a beautiful restaurant (fantastic menú del día) in the Hotel Cardenal in the next street down (rua das Hortas), with great...
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    Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio

    No signs of anything when I wandered through Bendilló a couple of weeks ago. It was pretty early in the morning, though, but - as you say - they only open if they are up from Madrid. One of these years I will find the chiringuito down in O Soldón open! I have walked the Invierno (or at least...
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    Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio

    Talking of accommodation, I'm lucky enough to have friends in Puente de Domingo Flórez, so if I end up there I have a place to stay for the night. La Torre is a bit too expensive in my opinion. Casa Rosa is lovely, but the last time I stayed there I had three ladies from Castellón for company...
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    Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio

    That was my intention! You can also buy some things in Bar Estanco Inés in Santalla. So is her brother, Saturno. Marisol has a bit of a problem with sciatica and needs to go into Ponferrada for physiotherapy a couple of times a week. I'm sorry their bar is closed in Borrenes but good to know...
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    Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio

    I would not be telling a lie if I said that I DID stop in quite a few of the places, though, all in the interest of gathering information for the forum and Invierno-lovers!
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    Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio

    I didn't have time to go in and ask, as my train back to Ponferrada was leaving a few minutes later, but the bar was full. However, from what I can gather, the hotel IS open. I understand what you mean about choosing between a meal in Casa Aroza and a shower/clothes wash in San Clodio. The...
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    Food and Drink Between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio

    This will be a fairly long post about places to stop for a drink and/or food between Ponferrada and Quiroga/San Clodio. My football team, Unionistas de Salamanca, were playing two consecutive away games, against Cultural León and Ponferradina, so I thought I’d stay up there and do some walking...
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    Some difficulty now (Feb 2024) on the camino de invierno

    I was in Borrenes last Monday, at the Hotel Rural Cornatel Medulas, and Saturno warned me about the fact that the camino was 'intransitable'. Another solution is to walk down to Restaurante Las Ventas and then into Carucedo and back up the road towards Las Médulas. It adds on another couple of...
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    Casa Rosa in Puente de Domingo Flórez?

    Casa Rosa is definitely OPEN.
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    Casa Rosa in Puente de Domingo Flórez?

    I'll be back on the Invierno next week (I think this is my twelfth!), but I won't be staying in Puente de Domingo Flórez this time. Long stage from Las/as Médulas to O Barco. However, I'll stop off to say hello to everyone I know in Puente, and I'll let you all know what's going on there. Buen...
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    Alternative between O Barco and the Dam through Arnado

    Whether you walk on the north of the river or the south it's a pretty short stage from O Barco to A Rúa, so this detour that you suggest, Laurie, looks marvellous. Thanks for the info: I'll be on this some time this autumn, but first of all I'm off on the Geira from Braga, once at the beginning...
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    Alternative between O Barco and the Dam through Arnado

    https://www.valdeorrasdecerca.com/el-castillo-de-arnado-tiene-nuevo-propietario-roandi/
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    Alternative between O Barco and the Dam through Arnado

    Yep!
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    Planning a “25 km or less” Camino on the Invierno

    Great place, although I nearly always end up in O Pillabán (and a wine-tasting with Juan until the early hours!).
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    Alternative between O Barco and the Dam through Arnado

    This is the castillo/pazo de Arnado, which you walk right through. Nice!
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    Alternative between O Barco and the Dam through Arnado

    It's well signposted, with a map of the two alternatives. You need to take the underpass under the N-120.
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    Alternative between O Barco and the Dam through Arnado

    After crossing the dam you turn left and go uphill a bit. At the top, BEFORE that nasty stretch along the road, there's an alternative route to take you into A Rúa.
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    Alternative between O Barco and the Dam through Arnado

    It's not too difficult, just a short climb after Arnado. Well worth it for the views down over the river, and it's a bit more interesting than the usual route through Villamartín. I hope your foot is ok. Where are you staying tonight? A Rúa?

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