Alternatives to Melide and O Pedrouzo?

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• Aug 10, 2019

• #1

Hey guys,

I'm walking the Primitivo from the 17th August. Having already completed the Frances in 2017, I'm wondering if there are alternative routes for the final two days before Santiago rather than Melide and O Pedrouzo?

Thanks

 

peregrino_tom

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• Aug 10, 2019

• #2

Hi Kyrotheram
A good place to start is this thread
crossing-from-primitivo-to-norte-yes-you-can.42599
The forum search function should by now have absorbed your question and thrown up other options at the bottom of this page...
The green arrows from the river below Lugo, take you via Friol and on to the wonderful monastery at Sobrado. After that you can either join the Norte down to Arzua or, I think, if you want to stay far from the madding crowd a little longer, you can take the more recent Norte alternative that I think goes through Gandara and joins the Frances at O Pedrouzo. There'll be other threads on that and I think Wise Pilgrim covers off the late Norte options too.
Cheers, tom

 

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• Aug 10, 2019

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If you switch over to the Norte you can avoid the Frances all the way to Lavacolla.
This is from the Wisely app. The Twin Pines B&B in As Calles (between Boimorto and Lavacolla) is very nice.

 

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• Aug 10, 2019

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Here's more info about the route from Boimorto to Lavacolla

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/link-to-resource-about-the-new-official-route-to-lavacolla-avoiding-arz%C3%BAa-st-irene-pedrouzo.58373/

 

Stripey Socks

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• Aug 11, 2019

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Many thanks. I am also very interested in this path/alternative. Mel

 

Mark McCarthy

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• Aug 11, 2019

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There are two very good and one not so good Albergues in Boente just after Melide and a new Albergue in A Rua just before Pedrouzo.

 

Davey Boyd

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• Aug 11, 2019

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I always stay at Ribadiso de Baixo. I really like the Xunta there next to the river, or there is the excellent albergue Los Caminantes. Excellent bar there too.

Then I usually stay in Santa Irene just before Pedrouzo. There are a few albergues around Santa Irene, the Xunta is ok, but there is a nicer private on an alternate route called albergue Astrar.

 

Ian Afloat

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• Aug 23, 2019

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Mark McCarthy said:

There are two very good and one not so good Albergues in Boente just after Melide and a new Albergue in A Rua just before Pedrouzo.

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Which is the not so good one?

 

Mark McCarthy

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• Aug 24, 2019

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The German one and the one with the swimming pool are both good.

Ian Afloat said:

Which is the not so good one?

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