FrenchGwen
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My husband and I are now preparing for our Camino: our original plans where to walk it for our first anniversary (which was Summer 2009) but we finally couldn't. AND we realized that we'd better avoid the summer season anyway : said husband really can't cope with heat.
So we took the most days we could off from work and are now preparing to head towards Santiago, arrival there is planned on Easter Saturday.
We'll be walking from March 25th on. Starting point is not yet fixed, somewhere around O Cebreiro, I suppose.
I have LOADS of interrogations I hope to find answers here to :
- I expect the weather to be quite bad, so not sure what to pack
- for the same reason + the fact that we are average walkers (though being young might help) : I'm wondering how much km a day we'll manage (I'm planning for around 18/20 in order to be able to play tourists / go to the different Easter Masses at the end of our walking days)
- we're planning to sleep in private albergues / hotels in order to get double rooms: I'm wondering if we can simply go and find ourselves a place every evening (as the end of March is not supposed to be high season for the Camino), OR should book them ahead (since it's 2010 at the same time, so it may be crowded) - of course we're booking ahead for Santiago itself :wink:
I will be thankful for any piece of advice from you !
FrenchGwen
So we took the most days we could off from work and are now preparing to head towards Santiago, arrival there is planned on Easter Saturday.
We'll be walking from March 25th on. Starting point is not yet fixed, somewhere around O Cebreiro, I suppose.
I have LOADS of interrogations I hope to find answers here to :
- I expect the weather to be quite bad, so not sure what to pack
- for the same reason + the fact that we are average walkers (though being young might help) : I'm wondering how much km a day we'll manage (I'm planning for around 18/20 in order to be able to play tourists / go to the different Easter Masses at the end of our walking days)
- we're planning to sleep in private albergues / hotels in order to get double rooms: I'm wondering if we can simply go and find ourselves a place every evening (as the end of March is not supposed to be high season for the Camino), OR should book them ahead (since it's 2010 at the same time, so it may be crowded) - of course we're booking ahead for Santiago itself :wink:
I will be thankful for any piece of advice from you !
FrenchGwen