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First timer - Sarria to SDC May 2015
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[QUOTE="Cailin O Eire, post: 276482, member: 34974"] Hi BG Myself and a cousin booked flights Christmas 2014 to fly Dublin Santiago during Easter. That was the extinct of our planning ahead. Got to Dublin and the plan was go outside the airport in Santiago and catch a bus to Sarria. Our plan changed when we met other camino people on the flight and ended up sharing a taxi with them! I have spoke to many whose plans didn't work out as planned but only better the camino seems to work that way. On arrival in Sarria we wandered into a stone building on a narrow paved street and asked for accomodation we were put in a dorm with 3 Irish school teachers and 8 student males from a boarding school in Dublin. In all honesty they were the best find such gentlemen and we had friends for the week in all of them crossing paths along the way walking with the teachers sometimes walking with the students sometimes walking alone sometimes walking with others. The choice is your own to do it in Soltitude or embrace the many new people you could meet. On Day 1 we set off from Sarria arriving in Potomarin, we carried our back packs 50l ( what was I thinking re that large a bag) it was Easter week we were aiming to be in Santiago for Holy Thursday evening so the route was very busy and Easter last year on the camino in Galicia was beautiful sun shining lots of sun cream needed for my fair freckly skin!! On arrival in PotoMarin we worked our way up to the square knocking at doors and everyplace was seeming to be full, knocked on another door full but they rang someone and we got a room in a house shared bath lovely place for €10 each. We paid €8 for the hostel on the previous night. Likewise on the following day it was same situation in Palad De Rei maybe our slow pace in walking meant we were too late to get a hostel and as a result ended up getting a private room in a house again with a shared bathroom this time €15 each. On that night my companions feet were ginormous with swelling and blisters and trying to get shoes back on was not an option. Her feet was all that didn't enjoy the camino, physically and emotionally it was where she wanted to be and wanted to go on so we bought Sandals men's sandals I might add and a bag of cotton wool and she ploughed on for the rest of the week, with the swelling and the blisters. Because her feet were so bad we made a decision to loose our large back packs and just carry the 15l front part of the sac, my back was in bits so I chose to loose the bag also, let it behind If it's holding you back is my motto, always find a way to plough on! This meant we needed to start booking ahead because we needed to send our bags somewhere. Spoke to a lovely Spanish lady outside an albergue who arranged everything for us in Pala De Rei although we had not expected her to, organised our bags, we dropped them at a cafe in the morning with a sticker on them (the bags were not alone must have been 30 other bags waiting for pick up) for €3 to go to the next town and we set off on foot. Again they had booked us into a private room with own bath this time 20 each, and we asked the people whom met us on arrival to ring ahead and book us into some place the next day and where to leave our bags in the morning, in this case we were able to leave them at the facility the taxi did a pick up there. Each night we had pilgrim meals for about €10 that is a 3 course meal and you will be shocked at how much food and how nice for €10. I really would go and go with the flow re accomodation meals getting bag from a to b it will all work out and it won't be extortionately priced at €750. I hardly spent 200 in the week and that was with luxury as a treat in Samtiago!! Flights were 190 about dearer than the average as it was Easter. I'm returning this year and am bringing a 25l back pack so I can carry my stuff, I want the option of stopping wherever I like, sending the bags on restricts you that way, you could pass through a quaint little hamlet and want to stay, but you can't because your bag is 10km away!! It's a personal choice but the freedom you give yourself by carrying the bag is empowering, I realised that when I gave up the bag!!! I've just booked the flights Dublin Biarritz again in Christmas, and I know it will work out when I get there. Have a wonderful Camino Rita [/QUOTE]
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