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Greetings from Albergue San Roque in Corcubión where I am alone with two hospitaleras - no one else has showed up!
Hi Laurie, there was only one camino when I walked from Mondoñedo to Abadín last year (November). If there was an alternative route I never saw it. From Mondoñedo I walked via Barbeitas, Maaríz, Paadín, San Vicenzo, Lousada and Gontán (stayed in the albergue there). It was a nice walk even in the rain!
Jill
Lucky you to be at such a special spot!
That simple, welcoming albergue at San Roque is a favorite. From their dorm window when you see the lighthouse beacon at Finisterre shining at night, it is magic!
Since home is in Champagne facing a vineyard, at the end of each camino when at last I reached that lighthouse I silently gave thanks and treated myself to a flute of true French champagne, toasting all who helped make my journey possible. Watching the sea I slowly sipped savoring the moment; when that glass was empty it was time to turn towards home...Perhaps you would enjoy continuing this tradition.
They tell me this route has been official for the last two years but that people keep going on the one that you did.
Right in the cathedral square in Mondoñedo.
I walked this leg and on to Vilalba about 3 weeks ago.
Not a single peson of the people I spoke to at our coffee stop in Abadin, or at the Albergue that evening managed to find the 'camino real' and travel the shorter of the routes. The arrows/directions leading from the cathedral were misleading, and even though we followed the map at the cathedral, we still managed to miss taking the 'right way'. I'd say at least 20 of us tried and failed to find it (and we were all peeved about it because it made the etappe even longer than we'd been planning on!)
But as an aside, nickymd1, if you stayed in O Xistral in Abadín, surely all that irritation just melted away. I have heard the albergue is doing well, and I really hope that's the case because it is a terrific place.
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