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{Rachael, the Mama of the family}
- Time of past OR future Camino
- walking every day for the rest of my life
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I’d say it’s too late. Maybe not for the first part until Granada, but to walk the inner Andalucía and Extremadura in June is risky. You could get real massive heat. I walked the Mozárabe from Granada in 2011 and from Almería last year. Was in Córdoba may 12th the first time and the heat was killing! Realised I had started too late as I had too much heat from about there onwards and on the Plata.Almeria to Santiago.
Obviously early April is the ideal time to start this route in order to enjoy the wildflowers.
However, if you could not start until May 20-something, you might miss the flowers - but will you also miss the heat? Or is that too late?
If you were to walk in autumn, how early can you start and not be crippled by heat? Is it possible to walk from Almeria all the way to Santiago and have the final stages not be cold or is a spring start essential for that?
I can't comment about walking all the way to SdC, as we have only walked to Mérida on the Camino Mozárabe.Almeria to Santiago.
Obviously early April is the ideal time to start this route in order to enjoy the wildflowers.
However, if you could not start until May 20-something, you might miss the flowers - but will you also miss the heat? Or is that too late?
If you were to walk in autumn, how early can you start and not be crippled by heat? Is it possible to walk from Almeria all the way to Santiago and have the final stages not be cold or is a spring start essential for that?
Thank you! I actually read all your posts yesterday and jotted down your "intermediary" stopping places. I like to know all options available and then make my decisions about where to stop once I am there. Your input has been invaluable.That doesn't really answer your question, but hopefully our experience might help.
¡Buen Camino!
Totally agree with you and so the question should really be "how late is too late to start in order to avoid the heat?"How late is too late to start?
No such thing.
The Camino persists, whatever your personal circumstances or worries.
Hi fellow Kiwi. We walked Mozarabe Malaga to Santiago 5 June 2017 start.Almeria to Santiago.
Obviously early April is the ideal time to start this route in order to enjoy the wildflowers.
However, if you could not start until May 20-something, you might miss the flowers - but will you also miss the heat? Or is that too late?
If you were to walk in autumn, how early can you start and not be crippled by heat? Is it possible to walk from Almeria all the way to Santiago and have the final stages not be cold or is a spring start essential for that?
Thanks for pointing this out. I should have though through my comments a bit more. There are actually not huge expanses of agricultural fields on the Mozárabe — they happen more on the caminos that start further north and east — the Catalán, the Lana, the Ebro, the Madrid. Those big agricultural uni-croplands are the primary sources of huge big brown swaths.We enjoyed plenty of wild flowers, and the scenery around us was green, as opposed to brown and burnt last year in autumn.
If you can leave in March I think you'll find flights are cheaper! At least they are from across The Ditch.Thanks so much for you question.
It seems the Camino is calling me for April next year - that’s what came to mind a few days ago.
I would like to walk the Frances again but the Mozarabe has also been calling me since before I walked VdlP last year.
I am thinking now that I can leave the Francés till I am really old and slow.
Your question has confirmed for me that an April Camino Mozarabe might be the perfect thing.
Now just to check on flights from Australia …..
Perhaps I was lucky, but when I walked the Camino francés, I found October to be ideal - not too hot and not too cold. That said, the current unusual climate conditions need to be considered.Almeria to Santiago.
Obviously early April is the ideal time to start this route in order to enjoy the wildflowers.
However, if you could not start until May 20-something, you might miss the flowers - but will you also miss the heat? Or is that too late?
If you were to walk in autumn, how early can you start and not be crippled by heat? Is it possible to walk from Almeria all the way to Santiago and have the final stages not be cold or is a spring start essential for that?
I, too, have loved walking the northern routes in October, but this time I'm considering the Mozarabe, and an October start there makes for a late November arrival in Galicia, which is getting decidedly chilly and wet!Perhaps I was lucky, but when I walked the Camino francés, I found October to be ideal - not too hot and not too cold. That said, the current unusual climate conditions need to be considered.
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