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There are private accommodations regularly along the camino, and some albergues have private rooms. The choices are hostales and hoteles, which are pretty similar, and pensions, which are private rooms, either in homes or associated with a bar or restaurant. There is the occasional casa rurale, which is usually a farm bread and breakfast.Are there private hotels at most the stops along the way ?
Got some camping questions. I'm a fairly experienced camper/backpacker (though nothing like the 500 miles I'm hoping to go from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to SdC.
1. Price. Seems like it waffles between cheaper and more expensive. Any thoughts?
2. Safety. 20-something girl hiking alone (hoping to meet new people along the trail and probably meeting up with friends in Burgos or Leon). How safe is it for me to camp in the official campgrounds solita?
3. Mosquito net/tent. I am not planning on bringing a tent but a pole-free mosquito net. I need to hang it from a tree. Are there many bugs or do you guys sleep outside sans tent/mosquito net? Are there usually trees, etc from which I can hang my net at campgrounds?
4. Should I bring my pocketrocket stove, or did you all mostly buy food @ restaurants/cafes/supermercados?
Main hopes for camping are to enjoy the outdoors and save some $. All thoughts welcome!
Thanks,
Claire
@alexwalker Let's found a new country then! Where everybody is free to roam and where the essentials of live (bread, cheese, chorizo and wine) are reasonably priced.
You may also want to check out Six Moons designs. I have one of their Gatewood Capes that weighs about a pound, it also doubles as a poncho and, if you want you can add a bug screen insert with a bathtub floor about 11 oz. Both for under two lbs plus subtract the normal rain gear you would have to carry otherwise and it's not bad.Got some camping questions. I'm a fairly experienced camper/backpacker (though nothing like the 500 miles I'm hoping to go from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to SdC.
1. Price. Seems like it waffles between cheaper and more expensive. Any thoughts?
2. Safety. 20-something girl hiking alone (hoping to meet new people along the trail and probably meeting up with friends in Burgos or Leon). How safe is it for me to camp in the official campgrounds solita?
3. Mosquito net/tent. I am not planning on bringing a tent but a pole-free mosquito net. I need to hang it from a tree. Are there many bugs or do you guys sleep outside sans tent/mosquito net? Are there usually trees, etc from which I can hang my net at campgrounds?
4. Should I bring my pocketrocket stove, or did you all mostly buy food @ restaurants/cafes/supermercados?
Main hopes for camping are to enjoy the outdoors and save some $. All thoughts welcome!
Thanks,
Claire
This is good to know! And the police do not bother you? Awesome info.I don't know if you'd call it camping, but you can discreetly blow up your sleeping pad and sleep like a baby in a warm sleeping bag on many a cathedral stone bench or wherever. People balk at this but the quietest among us do so peacefully and leave the place we lied down to sleep that night even cleaner and better the next morning than when we first approached it as sanctuary and refuge, and no man or woman was the wiser. Our only observer was the guardian angel overlooking us that night. Rest easy, dear pilgrim...
I don't know if you'd call it camping, but you can discreetly blow up your sleeping pad and sleep like a baby in a warm sleeping bag on many a cathedral stone bench or wherever. People balk at this but the quietest among us do so peacefully and leave the place we lied down to sleep that night even cleaner and better the next morning than when we first approached it as sanctuary and refuge, and no man or woman was the wiser. Our only observer was the guardian angel overlooking us that night. Rest easy, dear pilgrim...
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