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Will keep that albergue in mindmspath said:Walking across the hills near Cee you can at last glimpse the sea. Near-by is the simple, welcoming albergue at San Roque/Corcubion. >> http://caminodesantiago.consumer.es./al ... san-roque/ In the dark from the dorm window when you see the lighthouse beacon at Finisterre shining out to sea it is magical.
johns said:hi just back from walking finisterre muxia had brierley guide + csj guide you can get all the info you need from the tourist office hope the weather better when you walk it rained every day+ mud + flooding nice camino in good weather. john
geordiewanderer said:....
Does the accommodation list from the tourist office have prices on? I may not have much money left by the time I reach Santiago so would be helpful to know in advance how much hostels will be.
mspath said:geordiewanderer said:....
Does the accommodation list from the tourist office have prices on? I may not have much money left by the time I reach Santiago so would be helpful to know in advance how much hostels will be.
No the free list from the tourist office does not list prices but it does provide telephone numbers for the various accommodations.
Buen Camino,
Margaret Meredith
Yes, the Brierley guide to the Camino Finisterre is available in English. The same guide has pages in Spanish too.
Brierley probably should include the section on the Camino Finisterre in his guidebook to the Camino Frances. The Camino Finisterre guide is not that big (95 pages) and is padded out a bit with sections of the English text translated into Spanish. Nevertheless, it cost me almost as much to buy it from the Kinokuniya bookshop here in Sydney as the Camino Frances guide. I still bought the 2014 edition, as it was the most up-to-date guide on the Camino Finisterre I could find (I have the Confraternity of Saint James too, but that was last updated in 2009) and it also has maps.
One thing only: some of the cafés marked on the maps were not there.
You might look here for all the information you're likely to need on current albergues and prices. http://caminodesantiago.consumer.es/albergues/#epilogo-a-fisterraIs the Brierley Finisterre guide available to buy in Santiago (in English)? Just wondering....
Does the accommodation list from the tourist office have prices on? I may not have much money left by the time I reach Santiago so would be helpful to know in advance how much hostels will be.
I bought the guidebook. It has a number of minor inaccuracies about distances and open albergues, but is otherwise much the same as his other guides. You either like them or hate them. I don't mind Brierley, and it was good to have the maps, which were not available at the Galician tourist office in Santiago. You might consider the CSJ guide. I didn't use it, but have looked at it since I walked, and it appears pretty good.
Is the Brierley Finisterre guide available to buy in Santiago (in English)? Just wondering....
Does the accommodation list from the tourist office have prices on? I may not have much money left by the time I reach Santiago so would be helpful to know in advance how much hostels will be.
@Thornley, I prefer to walk with a guide, and this year I used the CSJ guide for the Camino Ingles and Brierley for Muxia and Finisterre.I still don't believe it is necessary Doug
With due respects the Camino Frances and ways to the coast do not require a road map.
You could not get lost compared to other ways
Miami Miami Dodo for accommodation
That's all that is needed
Every book known to man is required if walking from Mont Saint Michel we have just found out.
It's well waymarked as is the section from Fisterre to Muxia which I would recommend you do. But watch at the T junction a couple of hours out of Vilaserio. I spent at least five minutes trying to puzzle out the way the arrow pointed then headed off the wrong way. After some k's the rain stopped for a moment and a brief glimpse of sunlight gave me a shadow which showed I was heading due south. My Brierley guide (the smaeller of the two, with a Spanish/French/English text) was just a pulp anyway due to incessant rain which had soaked everything (my third Goretex jacket had proven just as big a useless disaster as the first two; perhaps someone should initiate a class action against this mob for blatantly false advertising)Hi everyone,
Is Brierley's guidebook for the Camino Finisterre a good addition to his guidebook for the Camino Francés? I'm considering to buy the latter and wondered if the Finisterre guide is worth buying as well, since it's just a few dollars/Euros cheaper than the Francés guide and I'll only use it for three of four days (compared to several weeks spent with the other one).
Advice is welcome
Tom
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