Camino Ingles in July 2014

[Mariposa919]

This will be my first camino. Is is possible to do this camino in 5 days? Is this a route that has paradores or are there just albergues to stay the night?

 

[Tia Valeria]

Hola and welcome to the forum. It is possible to walk in 5 days either using the albergues or by using private accomodation. We don't personally know of a parador until you reach Santiago and the Reyes Catolicos. However you can download the guide to the Camino Inglés here from the forum for a donation. This lists many suggestions for accomodation, the albergues plus rooms and hotel, as well as being an excellent guide in itself.
Buen Camino.

 

[dougfitz]

There is a Parador in Ferrol as well. I haven't looked into whether there are others.

 

[SabsP]

Here you go : all the paradores inthe autonomous community of Galicia....
http://www.parador.es/en/advanced-search?aut_community=Galicia

 

[laurap]

It is absolutely possible to walk the Camino Ingles in 5 days--particularly if you do a bit of trekking beforehand. The Parador in Ferrol is right near the start of the walk.
If you begin from Ferrol, it's easy to break the route into 5 stages:
Ferrol-Pontedeume: 29km
Pontedeume-Betanzos: 19.5km
Betanzos-Hospital de Bruma: 27.5km
Hospital de Bruma-Sigüero: 23.8km
Sigüero-Santiago: 16.2km

There are albergues in Neda, Pontedeume, Miño, Betanzos, Hospital de Bruma, and Santiago, but not currently in Sigüero. There are hotels also along the way, but many of the albergues are quite nice & well maintained.

 

[daesdaemar]

Interestingly enough, I have done the Ingles twice, also in July. Both times easily in five days with stages as mentioned by laurap. Lot's of fun - great experience.

 

[peregrino_tom]

laurap, your second post in 4+ years - such restraint! But nice to hear from you

 

[peregrino robert]

Anyone that can recomend a guide for the Camino Inglés?
I will be walking it in july or aug 2014

 

[peregrino robert]

And thank you Laurap for the stages, the distances looks ok for a first timer (my wife).

 

[dougfitz]

Anyone that can recomend a guide for the Camino Inglés?
I will be walking it in july or aug 2014

You can find Johnny Walker's guide here: http://www.csj.org.uk/guides-online.htm.

Regards,

 

[peregrino robert]

You can find Johnny Walker's guide here: http://www.csj.org.uk/guides-online.htm.

Regards,

Thank you, Doug
I have just placed an order for the guide and, just for fun, two badges for the backpacks.

Regards
Robert

 

[Camembert]

Thank you, Doug
I have just placed an order for the guide and, just for fun, two badges for the backpacks.

Regards
Robert

I will order the the guide too.Yesterday ordered our credentials .my good Portugese camino forum friend Diogo got them from the Sé cathedral in Lisbon and sent them to me.
@dougfitz wrote about another guide of the camino Ingles from Cicerone. Caminos from the North.I will order this guide too at Amazone's

http://www.cicerone.co.uk/product/detail.cfm/book/681/title/the-northern-caminos


Godt tur og med venlige hilsninger

Albertinho

 

[peregrino_tom]

@dougfitz wrote about another guide of the camino Ingles from Cicerone. Caminos from the North.I will order this guide too at Amazone's

Albertinho, I like the Cicerone guide, in particular the maps. You should be aware that it is a 300-page guide of which 24 pages are allocated to the Camino Ingles. That's the bad news for an Ingles pilgrim. The good news is it will inspire you to want to walk the Finisterre, Primitivo and Norte routes as well!
cheers, tom

 

[Tia Valeria]

Thank you, Doug
I have just placed an order for the guide and, just for fun, two badges for the backpacks.

Regards
Robert

Our new guide just came from CSJ this morning
Checking online we had seen there was an update to the guide in April 2013. As far as we can see this is included in our new printed version - p60 Sigueiro to Santiago.

We will take the new guide with us, with some notes from our old one and also notes from the Cicerone guide. This has other information about places of interest. Very good to read at home but as it covers all the Northern Caminos it is more bulky (as Tom says) and we don't want to cut it up. Others who are less restricted for weight could well carry both.

 

[Camembert]

Albertinho, I like the Cicerone guide, in particular the maps. You should be aware that it is a 300-page guide of which 24 pages are allocated to the Camino Ingles. That's the bad news for an Ingles pilgrim. The good news is it will inspire you to want to walk the Finisterre, Primitivo and Norte routes as well!
cheers, tom

Thanks Tom for the advice ! We have time enough. Pensionados you know but do not know if my wife will be happy with the idea of walking them all together after the Portugese last year. Ordered Johnnie's guide a minute ago and the Cicerone too. Thanks anyway

 

[Al the optimist]

Enjoy the Ingles people. Quite compared to the Frances but large parts are lovely walking.

 

[peregrino robert]

I will order the the guide too.Yesterday ordered our credentials .my good Portugese camino forum friend Diogo got them from the Sé cathedral in Lisbon and sent them to me.
@dougfitz wrote about another guide of the camino Ingles from Cicerone. Caminos from the North.I will order this guide too at Amazone's

http://www.cicerone.co.uk/product/detail.cfm/book/681/title/the-northern-caminos


Godt tur og med venlige hilsninger

Albertinho

I also think we will have credencials from Portugal, we will buy them in Sé Cathedral in Porto.
We will pick them up a few days before the travel to Ferrol.

Bom Caminho

Regards

Robert

 

[Camembert]

Diogo is a great guy ! He sent us the credentials which arrived here last night safely and well wrapped .
Diogo and I have had and still have a lot of contact on this forum and in privat emails due to the great information he gave us during our last year's caminho Portuges.
We now are preparing to walk the camino Ingles in May next from Ferrol to Santiago.
Reading this great forum we discovered that the Tourist info in Ferrol can supply a credential but as some forum members told that this credential is a photocopy.
So I asked my good friend Diogo to buy two credentials for my wife and I in Lisbon.
I'll buy him some pints when we see him.
So highly recommended ! Great service

Best regards from the

 

[peregrino_tom]

Albertinho, good to hear your credentials arrived safely.
Just wanted to say that when I walked the Ingles last August the tourist booth at the old dock was issuing proper credencials. Maybe they ran out at some point and that's when they started providing photocopies. I hope a few more people can check and report their experiences before we start saying that only photocopies are available now.
PS The tourist booth also provides a useful, detailed tourist map. On one side has the camino route marked through the city. On the other side the camino route is shown around the bay.
Cheers, tom

 

[Camembert]

Albertinho, good to hear your credentials arrived safely.
Just wanted to say that when I walked the Ingles last August the tourist booth at the old dock was issuing proper credencials. Maybe they ran out at some point and that's when they started providing photocopies. I hope a few more people can check and report their experiences before we start saying that only photocopies are available now.
PS The tourist booth also provides a useful, detailed tourist map. On one side has the camino route marked through the city. On the other side the camino route is shown around the bay.
Cheers, tom

Thanks Tom. As soon as we arrive in Valdoviño, we drive to Ferrol to visit the Tourist Office and find out what we can use for our stay in Galicia anyway. We want to drive to Cee after finishing the Ingles and have a look as tourist in Fisterre and Muxia.
Turgalicia promished me to send info to but not landed yet here. I also want to drive from Vigo to Porto along the coast so I have an idea what we will meet when we walk the Portugese coastal at a later time maybe next year.
The Cicerone guide landed here today so we are well informed so far and can make our plan .
Best regards
Albertinho

 

[Regina]

Mariposa919,
This is also my first Camino and I plan on going the first week of July and getting to Santiago for St. James' feastday on July 24th. Would you like to be walking partners?