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I loved watching for you and meeting you last year!Last year, for example, I had the great honor of counting forum mod @trecile between Markina and Bolibar.
You might happen to count me as a pilgrim, while I am not.I will be walking the Sanabrés half May and am having most of my training walks on (parts of) the Norte. However I prefer to avoid the Norte's asphalt where I can.
I loved watching for you and meeting you last year!
At the end of October and the end of our Camino Aragonés my French son in law and I walked the Camino Frances backwards from Obános to Saint Jean Pied-de-Port. Several helpful local people pointed out that we were going the wrong way. Some oncoming people were baffled.
(...) That means in the last 4 days of my camino 675 pilgrims came towards me! No wonder I felt like a bobblehead, constantly greeting people. On my last two days I met pilgrims almost every few minutes. I also encountered huge groups, for example I passed around 80 portuguese-speaking pilgrims at a parking lot close to A Zas. They just got their briefing by a guide.
Of course I always said hello and buen camino. Once I was chatting near Mount Aro with an American, who asked me about Olveiroa. I told him what I knew and added “You are my number 125 of the day”. He said he liked that number. But at the end I got tired by the huge number of encounters and then just smiled and raised my hand for a greeting. I have learned that a reverse pilgrim can be very beneficial for those who walk in the other direction. I answered questions about topography (“How many climbs tills Muxia?”) or upcoming services (“How far away is the nearest bar?”). When I walked on my last day I came upon a group of Brazilians. A girl stopped and asked me for help. She had accidentally taken her room key from a hotel in Negreira. Of course I offered her to return her key (after all the hotel was right on the camino).
At the moment yes. Good luck with the alternatives! Wikiloc could be helpful as well.Hi Luka, are you walking with a full bagpack for training? Then you certainly will be counted! I will try to walk all the coastal alternatives of the Norte in reverse too, which might be challenging. I use Buen Camino App and thankfully some of them are included there.
I was in the same albergue on Monday 22nd and there were only 6 of us, including myself.You might happen to count me as a pilgrim, while I am not.I will be walking the Sanabrés half May and am having most of my training walks on (parts of) the Norte. However I prefer to avoid the Norte's asphalt where I can.
To add my grain of salt: I stayed in albergue La Xana in La Caridad on Saturday night and we were 8 in the albergue. Both walking days I met about 5/6 pilgrims on the road (walking in the same direction as I did, that is).
Buen Camino!
Wow, 59 pilgrims between Gijón and Villaviciosa is quite a lot, I would say. Considering that the vast majority you met had already walked past the Camino Primitivo junction.
I don't know when on the next stage you plan to head for the coast, but there is a far better alternative to the several kms of road walk between Colunga and La Isla. These are my wikiloc tracks of a circular walk there. Especially the path directly on the cliffs is very recommendable.
Of course, it would be a pleasure. I look forward counting you! You can‘t miss me, I am very tall and dressed all in olive green.Oh - you might count me tomorrow- going from La Franca to Llames! Will sure say hi if I see you
Please kindly try to bring those numbers on the Norte down, @Umwandert , they are scary
Ah yes, you found the coastal path! Did you get there by walking up to a small beach in Ribadesella (Playa La Atalaya)? The first bit from the beach is quite steep uphill and I recall that fence as well, but the walking through a meadow without a path is new to me.
If you make it to Pendueles say hi to Anna from Lonneke
Anna was delighted to hear about your greetings! Thank you so much for the wonderful recommendation!
This is the way (in blue) I took after Ribadesella, proposed by 'Buen Camino'. It involved the wet meadow (where the jag is):
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So sorry to read this @lagalag. I hope your Camino goes well and I am sure he will be with you every step of the way.Last year, we lost our eldest at the ripe age of 21. Weeks before he left us, he told me he would like to do another camino with me and his brother. Now, we hope to make it to Campostela on the anniversary of his passing to realise his wish. We know he's with us all along the way.
I’ll be seeing at some point on Thursday, then! Walking just ahead of a pretty big wave so I’m curious if it has flattened out once I left it behind. Hopefully I won’t miss you, but I also tend to walk off-Camino by mistake even though I’m walking in the normal direction! Buen Camino!
I spoke to a lot of folks today, so I can’t recall. That’s me in the first photo above with Oliver.Did I miss you @Vacajoe? Or were you one of the two guys I spoke to today?
Such a treat to meet you (I was #3 for the day!). “Celebrity” sightings on the Norte are rare!Eighth Day: Now in Santillana del Mar
Wow, how much good a day's rest does. I felt very fresh and fit for the long stage right from the start today and had a good walking rhythm. And the weather was fantastic, sunny and 18 degrees. The route offered great views of beaches and the coast, especially in the first third to Comillas. There were already some surfers out and about in the morning.
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In Comillas I treated myself to (expensive) churros con chocolate for breakfast. My lunch break was supposed to be in Cobreces, a town famous for its cheese, but I didn't get a cheese sandwich, everything was closed. My information was that Ascension Day is not a public holiday in Spain (maybe only in cheese towns?). Luckily I always have power bars and some fruit with me. However, my apple had already been given to an admirable donkey. I arrived in Santillana at 6 p.m. sharp, but the last 5 kilometres were really tough (four long climbs!) and then the cobblestones of the museum-like town, which is full of tourists and school classes.
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Count of the day:
Day 8: San Vicente de Barquera - Santillana del Mar: 138 pilgrims
Just a few minutes after the start, still on the bridge in San Vicente, pilgrim #3 approached me and asked: "Are you from Ivar?" Rob had read my posts and informed me of a wave of pilgrims rolling towards me behind him. In fact, I counted 51 pilgrims till Comillas and 129 till Cobreces. Pilgrim #118 also knew me from the forum, Ray said that it wasn't always easy to find accommodation. Thanks a lot for the information, Rob and Ray!
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For the first time I counted a pilgrim for the second time! Pilgrim #68 turned out to be Yannick from Belgium, who is actually also walking in reverse and whom I had already counted two days ago. Today, however, he met me with a small group of pilgrims, he had probably travelled on by bus and was walking towards San Vicente again. In the end, there were 138 pilgrims in total, with only a few more joining in the last three hours. That's more than ever before since I started.
Tomorrow I wanted to hike to Liencres and follow the coastal route in the opposite direction, but I haven't found any accommodation there. So I walk on to Soto de la Marina. But I will save some kilometres on the way and will not follow the partially re-routed camino, but take the train over the infamous bridge between Mogro and Boo, as @Magwood once did. Stay tuned.
Thank you again for your invaluable counting work, @Umwandert ! I hope that when you accidentally stepped onto the nudist beach near Liencres, you took off your pilgrim armor and bathed according to the beach rules, following the famous quote "when in Rome, do as the Romans do"
At least my German friends would surely bathe that way!
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