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I'll be walking a short Camino (5 days) starting October 10. I would love to go longer but this is all the time I can take off from work.
I had made the decision that I would start in Lugo and walk the primitive to the Frances, then on to Santiago. I wanted to get the experience of the quieter Primitivo, and I love Roman history so the walls of Lugo are a draw for me. I've started to worry about beds and bookings, so I booked in to an albuerge in Lugo for the first night. Great.
Only I can't find anything for the second night until Melide. It's a 50km walk, about half of the total route
What do I do? There's limited accommodation on this Camino. I could probably manage the 50km, but it's a lot more than I was planning to walk. I'm fairly fit and active, but would prefer stages that are more like 35km, not 50.
I think I have 3 options: go anyway and take a chance that I'll be able to find something in one of the small towns along the way, choose a different route and prebook (Sarria start for the Frances), or plan for a much shorter first day and walk only 18km to an earlier town with accommodations (which seems like a waste of a day when I'll want to walk a lot more).
I'm disappointed and worried about accommodations now. When I planned this camino, I deliberately picked a time when the worst of the crowd was supposed to have died down so I could avoid stresses like this. It seems like this year there are many more pilgrims than anticipated and the infrastructure just isn't there for us all.
What would you do? Are there any other options? I don't want to reschedule the whole trip because I've been looking forward to it, but I'm worried that i won't have anywhere to sleep at night. What happens to pilgrims who can't find beds???
I had made the decision that I would start in Lugo and walk the primitive to the Frances, then on to Santiago. I wanted to get the experience of the quieter Primitivo, and I love Roman history so the walls of Lugo are a draw for me. I've started to worry about beds and bookings, so I booked in to an albuerge in Lugo for the first night. Great.
Only I can't find anything for the second night until Melide. It's a 50km walk, about half of the total route
What do I do? There's limited accommodation on this Camino. I could probably manage the 50km, but it's a lot more than I was planning to walk. I'm fairly fit and active, but would prefer stages that are more like 35km, not 50.
I think I have 3 options: go anyway and take a chance that I'll be able to find something in one of the small towns along the way, choose a different route and prebook (Sarria start for the Frances), or plan for a much shorter first day and walk only 18km to an earlier town with accommodations (which seems like a waste of a day when I'll want to walk a lot more).
I'm disappointed and worried about accommodations now. When I planned this camino, I deliberately picked a time when the worst of the crowd was supposed to have died down so I could avoid stresses like this. It seems like this year there are many more pilgrims than anticipated and the infrastructure just isn't there for us all.
What would you do? Are there any other options? I don't want to reschedule the whole trip because I've been looking forward to it, but I'm worried that i won't have anywhere to sleep at night. What happens to pilgrims who can't find beds???