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5 days walk on camino Frances early November.

Deepforest

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hi guys, I'm on half term the first week of November. I'm really tight for time, as John muir would call would say , I'm one of the time poor.

I love walking the camino and am going to fly over if even for a few days, five to seven days I hope. I'm thinking walking from pontevedra to ribadisio. The idea is to fly in and out of Santiago. This section is very beautiful and should be nice in late autumn.
Some of the pilgrims last November, carried a sheet with all the open albegues listed. They got in St Jean. Is there any way I can find out what albergues are open in early November?

Any other recommendations for five days camino walking?
 
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What about the Camino Ingles? There is a free guide here in the Forum resources section plus the albergues, as they belong to the Xunta, will be open all year round. Buen Camino, SY
 
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SYates said:
What about the Camino Ingles? There is a free guide here in the Forum resources section plus the albergues, as they belong to the Xunta, will be open all year round. Buen Camino, SY
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Be much cooler up north of Spain though?
 
SYates said:
What about the Camino Ingles? There is a free guide here in the Forum resources section plus the albergues, as they belong to the Xunta, will be open all year round. Buen Camino, SY
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@SYates
The Xunta Albergue that I had decided to stay in last November, I think it was Santa Irene, near Santiago, closed on November 15 last year. I was very surprised, as I thought I could rely on it to be open, but apparently not.
 
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Albertagirl said:
@SYates
The Xunta Albergue that I had decided to stay in last November, I think it was Santa Irene, near Santiago, closed on November 15 last year. I was very surprised, as I thought I could rely on it to be open, but apparently not.
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That is highly unusual! Normally the Xunta albergues are open 24/7/365 perhaps they closed for some emergency (bed bugs?) Buen Camino, SY
 
Hi, yes, the Xunta albergue in Santa Irene is open all year round, so there must have been an emergency. If it was bed bugs, then I am happy happy to hear they closed to de-bug. But it could have been other reasons, like hospitalero problems (e.g. death in the family). Jill
 

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I cannot swear to this information, as I was with two other women, Spanish residents, who were frantically phoning around for a place to stay the night as the sun was going down at 5:30 pm on Nov.16 at Salceda. They said they had received responses from all three albergues in the area, including the Xunta Albergue at Santa Irene, that they had closed the day before. The only Albergue that was willing to reverse this decision and open for us was the Albergue Turistico de Salceda, where the proprietor cooked for us and for three male peregrinos and gave us beds in three bedded rooms, but did not reopen the Albergue dorm. I have no idea why the Santa Irene Albergue was closed, as myself and my companions were expecting to stay there. They said (the other women) that the three albergues had agreed to close for the season on Nov. 15th, but they may have been mistaken. Regardless, I am no longer confident that an Albergue will be open year round if it is a Xunta Albergue.
 
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Albertagirl said:
I am no longer confident that an Albergue will be open year round if it is a Xunta Albergue
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Yes, actually any albergue. I arrived in Ciruena one year, on 21 Oct, late in the day, with the leaflet from the SJPDP office stating that the Ciruena albergue closed on “tous les saints”, i.e. All Saints Day, 1 Nov. However, the albergue was well and truly closed, shut, locked up, Go Away. Since then, I am also no longer confident that XX will be open, when I’m passing through, on any given day in the off-season. Jill
 
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