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Laurie:
I plan to walk the Invierno in the later half of April. Previously, I have suggested it here as a viable alternative to the Sarria to Santiago segment.
It occurred to me that as I had not yet done it personally, I should. That would make my commentary better.
Currently, the plan is to start out of Ponferrada on Friday 13 April...an auspicious starting day...I was able to book hostals or albergues for all but one night, in Rodeiro. That will likely be done "on the fly."
As I booked my airfare first, before planning my pilgrimage, I end up having the better part of a week at Santiago. Oh well, places to go, friends to see, beers to drink and food to eat... It gives me slack time to change reservations if my pace is not up to 30 Km / day.
I look forward to the forthcoming update...unless I get there first...
Wow, Thomas, that is quite a resource! Thank you so very much. Would you mind if i just stuck it at the end of the guide? I can ask my Dutch-American pal to translate the little bits at the top even though, as you say, it is all pretty obvious. You guys have some GREAT words -- slaapplaatsen, I love it!Hi Laura,
Thanks again for all your work!
At the Duch Confraternity we do make different KML and PDF accomodation lists, also made one for the Invierno. For this one we 'borrowed' some of your info but also looked a few months ago for new reasonable accomodation. Feel free to 'borrow back' all the information which you can use!
The PDF is in Dutch, but I think most of it you can understand. If not, let me know.
https://www.santiago.nl/sites/defau...-gps/Spanje/Slaapplaatsen-ES-GPS-20171106.pdf
Wow, Thomas, that is quite a resource! Thank you so very much. Would you mind if i just stuck it at the end of the guide? I can ask my Dutch-American pal to translate the little bits at the top even though, as you say, it is all pretty obvious. You guys have some GREAT words -- slaapplaatsen, I love it!
Laurie:
As requested, here are my currently planned daily stages on the Invierno:
4/13 Puente de Domingo Flórez
4/14 O’Barco de Valledorras
4/15 Quiroga (private albergue)
4/16 Montforte de Lemos
4/17 Chantada
4/18 Rodeiro - this is where I need a place to stay.
4/19 Lalin
4/20 Bandeira
4/21 Santiago - I'll be at the Hospederia San Martin Pinario
In several cases, the daily stages are long, perhaps overly ambitious. In any case, they are longer than I would normally like. However, my decisions were driven by the availability of reservable lodging. I used both booking.com and gronze.com.
Because this will be challenging some days, I have been walking from 5 - 10 km each day here. About a month before, I will introduce my fully loaded rucksack to my daily walks. Living in Southern Florida makes this easier. Today, I wore shorts again for the first time in a week...
Send me a PM to ask for whatever information you will need to make a reservation for me.
Thanks
Tom
I am looking for possible ways to fit in the Medulas hills right in the itinerary, from Borrenes or Carrucedo over the mountains, I am sure there must be a more interesting way than the current camino route.
I will be in touch, so!
That trail takes you right past the Mirador de Orellán, which is by far the best viewing point, IMO. From there, if you are going to stay in As Médulas you can cut down through the forest, but if you stay on this track you will intersect with the camino further on and you hang a left and head to Puente Domingo Flórez. Wow, what a great idea!
Buen camino, Laurie
p.s. Happy to look at your stages. And if you think that having a Spanish version of our little guide is a good idea, that would be awfully nice of you to translate it. I know that the guy in the information hut in Ponferrada has a copy in English and I bet he would be happy to have it in Spanish.
Hi, everyone,
I have taken the first step of printing out my notes and going through all the Invierno comments since February of last year when we finished up the 2017 edition. If there is anyone who walked this year and has comments on things that should be changed or added to the forum guide, PLEASE let me know. I will be posting questions, I am sure, when I get down into the weeds and try to make sense of everything.
Hoping that Charrito, Jerbear, and Kinky will be by my side again! Buen camino, Laurie
@peregrina2000
I have not walked this camino, but I completed the Sanabres in November of 2017 and, with respect to some comments in the 2017 Invierno guide, I have a couple of comments about accommodation on the last couple of days of this route, which are shared with the Invierno. First: A Laxe: the Invierno guide offers a hostal called Hostal Ramos as possible accommodation in A Laxe. As far as I know, there is no accommodation in A Laxe aside from the Xunta hostel and Gronze does not list anything else for A Laxe. I have tried to find some mention elsewhere of this hostal in A Laxe, without success. However, I stayed one night at Hotel Ramos in Silleda, 20 euros pilgrim price, and was content with the comfortable and private room and the service of the receptionist. At that time, three of four albergues in Silleda were closed and the remaining Gran Albergue seemed a little noisy for my preferences. The following night, I stayed in Pensión O Cruceiro da Ulla and was completely satisfied with the comfort of my room, the services, and the evening meal in the dining room. Far from finding it "charmless" [from the 2017 guide] I was absolutely delighted and surprised by the extremely spacious bathroom, which included a very large oval bathtub and ample hot water to fill it. I think that my room cost me about 22 euros.
While I was trying to find my way around the new forum site, I found myself on the resources site, from which I exited, but it appears to have decided that I wanted to post something and has entered a reference that I had done so: no content of course, but perhaps you could get it deleted. Thank you for your work in updating the guide to the Invierno, which I plan on walking one day.
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