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Why is that? My route was going to follow yours today ...Staying in Orito or Novelda tomorrow??
Everyone goes to Novelda anyway, I know… :O(
Good luck!
/BP
Staying in Orito or Novelda tomorrow??
Everyone goes to Novelda anyway, I know… :O(
Good luck!
/BP
escaping Brexit!
But I closed my ears, eyes and phone ... For a while!You're deluding yourself !!!
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¡¡¡ Buen Camino Peregrino !!!
It's now €35, ouch, to stay at the Hotel Fuente El Cura. But as I really didn't sleep very well in either Alicante or Orito it's probably money well spent - and it includes breakfast which will more than make up for the cost?
It's now €35, ouch, to stay at the Hotel Fuente El Cura. But as I really didn't sleep very well in either Alicante or Orito it's probably money well spent - and it includes breakfast which will more than make up for the cost?
Just checked your blog. Yes, Caudete will be less expensive if you go to the albergue! The albergue is quaint & cozy in Summer. Just wondering if it will keep warm in autumn/Winter? The hospitalero will probably be Joaquín - he is very nice and will help you with anything!
/BP
Staying in Orito or Novelda tomorrow??
Everyone goes to Novelda anyway, I know… :O(
Good luck!
/BP
Just checked your blog. Yes, Caudete will be less expensive if you go to the albergue! The albergue is quaint & cozy in Summer. Just wondering if it will keep warm in autumn/Winter? The hospitalero will probably be Joaquín - he is very nice and will help you with anything!
/BP
La Mancha it's relentless.
I want to stop on Sunday ... A rest day. In 3 days where should I head? Levante or Sureste for a town, not a hamlet!Keep on walking, I check your blog every day. And the weather! Yes it must be windy and cold out there when it's flat as a pancake?
Keep on walking, I check your blog every day. And the weather! Yes it must be windy and cold out there when it's flat as a pancake?
I am so tired today. Only 17 kilometres until Minaya, but the last two days of 40+ Kms really busy me up!
OK, as for the rest days: La Roda will be the largest place for a while, whether you go on the Sureste or the Levante from there (Minaya). I think San Clemente would be nice to stay for a while? There are no cities until you reach Toledo. On the other hand, the other stops are no hamlets; they are large enough to have all the facilities.
/BP
The rain. It's got me. But I reached Minaya alive and not absolutely bonkers! Now I'm in the Hostal Restaurante Antolín with fine food, fantastic wine, a few locals staring at me and a most helpful host who is giving me love in the foods he shares! And I'm next to the fire!!!OK, as for the rest days: La Roda will be the largest place for a while, whether you go on the Sureste or the Levante from there (Minaya). I think San Clemente would be nice to stay for a while? There are no cities until you reach Toledo. On the other hand, the other stops are no hamlets; they are large enough to have all the facilities.
/BP
Saturday being like Sunday.
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They're simply not present. They're in another world entirely separate from the one which is the Camino - the silence, the chatter of the birds and the shining of the sun!Watch your steps when you go from San Clemente to Las Pedroñeras. You may have read in other blogs about a turn that is easily overlooked. But this was years ago and honestly I haven't heard people complaining for a while… Only those who recently walked the Levante can shine light on this.
I can't stand the noise in some bars either. I walk right out as soon I hear there is a shouting contest. I really don't see the point of 7 men standing in front of each other screaming their lungs out!
/BP
Thinking February. But not Sureste. There is another way that heads via SalamancaWill you be back next Winter to finish the Sureste?
Levante from Toledo to Avíla then to Salamanca?Thinking February. But not Sureste. There is another way that heads via Salamanca
Now only two. My ankles are ragged after La Mancha
Cena time!
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Some people just can't read body signals! It's odd really as he must know how tiring it can be to walk the Camino and the last thing any pilgrim needs is a lecture about pitfalls, etc.I read that you have met the hospitalero in Villa de Don Fadrique? He is... interesting.
He could do with a little less talking, that's for sure.
First time around I stayed there and he was very friendly (and talkative). Another year I ran into him in the street (he didn't recognize me) and he got so mad at me because I had decided to carry on to the next village.
That's it folks until the spring of 2020.
And I'm already planning coming back to continue from Toledo.
Camino? It's just so addictive!!!
Not being a fan of Christmas in the UK, with its huge commercialism, and the threat of Boris Johnson winning this election I've decided I'm better off continuing the Sureste, Levante, etc towards Santiago from Toledo for a few more weeks!
As I find walking much more pleasurable than eating, drinking and watching telly I'm heading back towards Toledo.
Got a flight to Alicante and hopefully BlaBlaCar towards Madrid on Thursday ... But I will get back to Toledo and carry on!
Back on the only road I know ...
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I've some thermalsHmm, this means you will soon reach the mountains you have to cross to get to Ávila. Not to discourage you, but it could get a little chilly. I hope you have nice weather up there. I would really like to know what it looks like in December.
BP
Hmm, this means you will soon reach the mountains you have to cross to get to Ávila. Not to discourage you, but it could get a little chilly. I hope you have nice weather up there. I would really like to know what it looks like in December.
BP
Not discouragedGetting Here.
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I might end my life on this senseless questHmm, this means you will soon reach the mountains you have to cross to get to Ávila. Not to discourage you, but it could get a little chilly. I hope you have nice weather up there. I would really like to know what it looks like in December.
BP
If I don't cut back on the alcohol intake!I might end my life on
I might end my life on this senseless quest
Wearily I went a-walking.
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No alcohol today!
It's all too much: an early night!
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Has either village an Albergue?
I want a Hostal, but over Christmas Eve and Day. Trying to save my pennies. I stuck to the short route to Sureste. But in two days I hope to reach Ávila.Albergue?! How the flying flip should I know. I always go for the hostal…! I am the Bad pilgrim, not the Good pilgrim. The only way to get me into an albergue is blindfolded with my hands and feet tied together.
Isolation-wise there is a difference. Apart from Almorox, there is a large stretch in the lonely hills before San Martín de Valdeiglesias that is poorly waymarked. At least that's what it was in 2014. The Sureste passes a few more villages as far as I remember. I would certainly stick to the Sureste, for practical reasons. But if you don't like road walking, there is more of it on the Sureste here.
Anyway: they both team up again at the Toros de Guisando Theme Park the next day. Don't forget to take a tour.
Good luck!
San Bartolomé
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The Albergue was closedOk! Just a question: why didn't you stay in Cebreros between Cadalso and Bartolomé? But I haven't stayed there myself so I don't know about accomodation.
The albergue in Ávila is big & comfy & well equipped. I wonder about heating in winter though.
The Chemin du Piemont is on my very long Camino-to-Do-List. What was your impression of it? Did you meet any other pilgrims? Thanks for any insight you are willing to offer.Recently returned from walking the southern route between Beziers -
Chemin du piémont pyrénéen -
towards Lourdes (17th September to 3rd October) in France.
Now I am heading to Alicante (5th November) to walk a few weeks the Camino del Sureste (or towards Valencia, Cuenca thence Madrid on the Levante) - escaping Brexit!
There were pilgrims. It was great, on the whole, but Lourdes isn't somewhere if ever wish to visit again.The Chemin du Piemont is on my very long Camino-to-Do-List. What was your impression of it? Did you meet any other pilgrims? Thanks for any insight you are willing to offer.
I preferred Ávila to ToledoOK, but if the french cheatigrina mainly travel by bus, you should still have the rest of your journey for yourself, right?
Ávila is beautiful, but always looked a bit stern to me.
I'm now following the Camino Theresa until Alba de Tormes and it gives me one day to reach Salamanca on the Via and stop for 2019!Ávila must be freezing, at that altitude. So you leave the Sureste and veer off to Salamanca?
It's a funny old game.I'm happy that Christmas found you! :OD
Must be somewhere in Salamanca?I hope you find somewhere comfortable for Christmas.
Must be somewhere in Salamanca?
Congratulations to you and your arrival in Sally-Manca!
All the things you just reported from the albergue de peregrinos are the reasons why I prefer not to stay at albergues anymore. Talking loud and annoying behaviour. No thanks. Whenever I have to stay in an albergue, I try to keep as quiet as possible and avoid to do those same thing to others - but I feel that the "others" never care and just behave as they want towards me anyway. The Camino Choir is quick to tell me "don't stay in the albergue then". Well I don't intend to stay in them anymore so... End of rant.
So you are going back to UK on Boxing Day?
That's all for 2019. Next Camino will be Jakobsweg Frankfurt towards France during Lent 2020!
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