Burgos Credential - Early Morning!

[elzi]

Hello Fellow Pilgrims!

Despite all my best intentions of quitting and managing an incredible three years without a camino! I appear to be in possession of a one way ticket to Spain leaving Wednesday. How this happened I have no clue...

Am taking the overnight coach from Santiago to Burgos arriving approx 6.15am. I'll be pretty tired but I'd like to just start walking. Is there somewhere to get a Credential in Burgos? I'm guessing the big main albergue is the best bet but will they let me in at 6.30am and sell me a credential?

The alternatives are:
If I can find my 2009 credential Pamplona->Burgos can I use that? Do I need to get it stamped in Burgos before setting off anyway, do 2009 credentials still work?
Can I get a credential in Santiago the day before I get on the coach to Burgos?

Cheers for any help! I find myself decidedly nervous... it's been a while...hope I can still walk!!

 

[sulu]

I'm sure you can use the same credencial.
Don't forget it is still dark at 06.30, stopping for breakfast and then wondering slowly across town should get you to the Albergue by 07.30. When I was there the hospitalero was there well before 08.00, to see everyone off the premises, you should be able to get a sello there. Should you really be in a desparate rush you may have to do without a Burgos sello and just get one at the first opportunity.
Starting without breakfast, after a long bus ride, is probably not a good idea You won't find anything open, outside Burgos, for several hours, don't kill yourself the first day

 

[Deleted member 3000]

You won't find anything open, outside Burgos

Actually, there is a very nice coffee shop leaving Burgos next to the university. It was open early when I left.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Burgos,+ ... 9,,0,-6.12

 

[elzi]

Cheers All! Excited and nervous now!

Am not much of a breakfast person to be honest, prefer to walk up an appetite. I have found my old credential though so if if all fails I can use that.

Will let you know what happens

 

[magdelanye]

I'm sure you can use the same credencial.
Don't forget it is still dark at 06.30, ...... Should you really be in a desparate rush you may have to do without a Burgos sello and just get one at the first opportunity.
Starting without breakfast, after a long bus ride, is probably not a good idea You won't find anything open, outside Burgos, for several hours, don't kill yourself the first day

I just assumed my camino "passport" was good till full...

What I still cannot understand tho is how you can just hit the ground running.
I ended up staying 2 weeks in SJPP some 5 years ago, waiting for the storms to abate,and it was one of my best parts of my camino. When I finally got up one morning and said this is the day, I was familiar with the land, and felt rested and in the proper frame of mind to begin the walking part.

 

[mikevasey]

Hello Fellow Pilgrims!

Despite all my best intentions of quitting and managing an incredible three years without a camino! I appear to be in possession of a one way ticket to Spain leaving Wednesday. How this happened I have no clue...

Hi Elzi

Good Luck and Buen Camino!

Hope I can make three years!!!

Mike

 

[elzi]

I ended up staying 2 weeks in SJPP some 5 years ago, waiting for the storms to abate,and it was one of my best parts of my camino. When I finally got up one morning and said this is the day, I was familiar with the land, and felt rested and in the proper frame of mind to begin the walking part.

2 weeks? That must´ve been quite some weather! Um, I find the opposite, once I´m within reach of the camino I´m itching to get going! The day I spent in Santiago was torture watching all the other pilgrims coming in jealously!!

As an update, I got a credential in the pilgrim´s office in Santiago just in case, but actually am using my old one. Just set out from Burgos straight off the very uncomfortable night bus, breakfasted in Tarjados after a 10km warm up to it!! Had a nice but officious hospitalera in Hornillos look at my old credential very closely though, pointed out that my passport number (on the credential) was incorrect as I´ve got a new passport since then!!

At Castrojeriz! Ultreia!!