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- 2018
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The Wise Pilgrim printed guide is available. I think it takes three to cover the entire route: http://www.wisepilgrim.com/camino_primitivo_in_asturias
I used Laurie's guide that is found on this forum and looked at the wise pilgrim app once a day. I also used the GPS on my phone to figure out where I was on several days, just to get an idea of how much farther I had to walk when in the middle of nowhere.
Hi @JillGat, I used the excellent Buen Camino guide for both the Primitivo and Norte. It’s in Spanish - but I managed ok with it (my Spanish is very basic). The Buen Camino app is also very good. Both the guide and app are updated regularly.
I’m hoping that the updated Cicerone guide is available by next summer. The authors did a lot of work on bringing it up to date, which they generously share on NorthernCaminos.com and on Facebook.
In case you’re lucky enough to speak German, the consensus on both Caminos was that the Germans had the best guides!
It’s about 18 months old I think. I added the info from wise pilgrim and my own research to update it before printing. It’s still very accurate. A few new albergues along the way some things gone. Minor stuff.I must be going crazy. I can't find Laurie's guide here. I see some notes from her earlier Primitivo Caminos, but no kind of current guide...
It’s about 18 months old I think. I added the info from wise pilgrim and my own research to update it before printing. It’s still very accurate. A few new albergues along the way some things gone. Minor stuff.
Since I can't find any of the other suggested resources on this thread, it turns out I can't find the Buen Camino guidebook either. I looked here and on Amazon.
Is it possible for y'all to post links to these resources for me? I have found a few guidebooks, but they are all at least two years old and I'd like to find an updated one.
I must be going crazy. I can't find Laurie's guide here. I see some notes from her earlier Primitivo Caminos, but no kind of current guide...
Hi, Jill, If I am the Laurie you are referring to, I have not written up a guide to the Primitivo. The only guide I work on is the Invierno. So the good news is that means you are not going crazy.I wonder if you are thinking of the compilation Liz Brandt put together a few years back. She pulled it from other sources and people said it was quite helpful.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...tiago-and-then-to-muxia-finisterre-guide.225/
Buen camino, Laurie
Hi Laurie!
I was responding to an earlier poster who referred to such a guide by you. Maybe she meant the guide by Liz... Oh well, since I won't be heading out on the Primitivo until a year and a half from now, there will likely be a guidebook on the route by then. Thanks! Jill
Sorry, I misread the Wise Pilgrim page. I edited the original post. Their book should be out in early 2018.I see the app, but I don't see a printed guide for the Primitivo on this site.
Oh yes. That's guaranteed to be a good bookHola, travel writer and pilgrim Stacey Wittig has produced an excellent guide to the Camino Primitivo. The CSJ will publish it very shortly. I'll keep you posted.
Buen camino
John
I just checked online and saw that WisePilgrim has a Primitivo app. I used WisePilgrim for the Frances, which was very helpful, so that's good. (I just hope Michael has updated the part of the Frances from Monte Gozo to Santiago. This fall, I followed the WP app instead of the yellow arrows, because WP jived with what I remembered from when I was there before; go downhill to the bridge and cross over into SdC. So I ignored the arrow signs that pointed uphill instead. I ended up down at the bridge that was being re-built and was totally blocked off. And then I saw what I thought was a short cut around the hill to meet the Camino up the hill on the new route. It's kind of a long story, but I ended up bushwacking through nettles and blackberry brambles up a hillside and reaching a deadend in the backyard of a farm with a ten foot fence through which I could see the pilgrims walking by. Not nice, when you are hoping to be in Santiago shortly!)
So Spring after the coming one, I intend to walk the Salvador/Primitivo route. I get to research and read about it for another year and a half! Yay!
Hola, travel writer and pilgrim Stacey Wittig has produced an excellent guide to the Camino Primitivo. The CSJ will publish it very shortly. I'll keep you posted.
Buen camino
John
Hi Jill! My son and I will be doing the same route in Spring of 2019! Hope meet up with you! (I will be the short mom with the 6'5" long haired hippy son.
Good to know, I will be on the lookout for the app. I have the app for the Frances and for the Portugues, both good (end of my unsolicited testimonial). Buena suerte, y que la luz de Dios alumbre su camino.The Wise Pilgrim Primitivo app is in the middle of an update, and a book is in the works for February. Just to let you know.
The Wise Pilgrim Primitivo app is in the middle of an update, and a book is in the works for February. Just to let you know.
The construction has ended! All is well in this world.I have loved the CF app. I do hope you've updated the last part into Santiago, though, that has been diverted because of the new bridge being constructed. I ended up traipsing through the brush back up the hill to meet the detour. An adventure on the last day!
Will the update be done by April?The Wise Pilgrim Primitivo app is in the middle of an update, and a book is in the works for February. Just to let you know.
Will the update be done by April?
Stacey Wittig's book is out, I just ordered it.
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