Jeff Mayor
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- French, Port, VDLP, Aragon, Levante, Ebro: 04-22
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I just walked Llansá to Montserrat to Santa Cilia and on to Arrés. The Eroski app information on albergues from Montserrat to Santa Cilia was accurate. I always called ahead one day to make certain the albergue was open and to understand how to get the key.Has anyone walked the stretch of Camino beginning in Montserrant towards Huesca and on to the Aragonese camino at Saint Cilla and San Juan de la Pena? I've found some info from 8/10 years ago but I'm looking for any updates about Albergues, distances and how many days it might take. I'm thinking maybe 12 to 14 days but I'm just guessing. Any details would be helpful. My wife and I will be starting the 4th of June from Montserrat. I have no idea how populated this route may be.
Thanks for the info, very helpful. We will be walking in June so my best guess is that it will be hot. Someone told me to arrive early in Montserrat to get the key to the Albergue from the monks before they close in the afternoon. Can you shed any light about staying there and will I need to contact them before I arrive for staying at the Albergue? We will be taking public transportation from Mansesa that morning.I just walked Llansá to Montserrat to Santa Cilia and on to Arrés. The Eroski app information on albergues from Montserrat to Santa Cilia was accurate. I always called ahead one day to make certain the albergue was open and to understand how to get the key.
The 3 page printout of towns/services/albergues available online from the Barcelona Friends of the Camino was very useful and everyone I met had a copy.
The albergue in Monzón I was told was closed on sundays, but later ran into 2 pilgrims who stayed there that Sunday. They had had to communicate by email and send passport photo by email to make their arrangements there. So Monzón may be a bit unusual.
I walked Montserrat to Santa Celia in 11 days. Two days were long.
I met 5 pilgrims , one going “backwatds” as he was doing the Ignacio pilgrimage, but there was no one ahead of me for a few days, so I could just as easily have met fewer. I counted 230 names in one of the albergue registries for all of 2018.
It is just a lovely route, for folks who don’t mind the possibility of solitude.
Thanks for the info, very helpful. We will be walking in June so my best guess is that it will be hot. Someone told me to arrive early in Montserrat to get the key to the Albergue from the monks before they close in the afternoon. Can you shed any light about staying there and will I need to contact them before I arrive for staying at the Albergue? We will be taking public transportation from Mansesa that morning.
9:30-1 and 4-6 per their website. I emailed them the night before, but other pilgrims arrived without notification. I they they prefer a call or email the day prior. I have heard that subsequent to my night there, they have opened a new spot for pilgrim accommodation.
Hi, Vacajoe!Jeff! Sacramento Robert here!!! Forget Spain and come enjoy the glorious southern coast of France in Biarritz!!!!! You can fake the blog and pictures...
When we stayed in Montserrat last April, we had to check in with the parish office before closing time (3pm? 4pm? It’s on their website...) and they walked us over to the albuergue as there were no hospitaleros so early in the season. At the time I could find no email so we just showed up, but since your Spanish is good you should be able to call them. Just be sure you reach the parish office and not the hotel or apartments there.
Finally, we ate at the expensive restaurant there but were provided with the pilgrims’ meal, so it was delicious food at a very reasonable cost.
Thank you!The restaurant of Hotel Abat Cisneros is close to the albergue and opens any day the hotel is open (don't know if they close some days in Winter)
Dinner 27,50€. Not bad for a former horse stable. pilgrims menu will be less.
Tourist restaurants should be open from easter to October, but only on weekends you can eat something in the early evening (till 20:00h), Prices are still high, so as a pilgrim the Hotel should be the best choice.
https://www.montserratvisita.com/en/organize-the-visit/where-to-eat
About solitude. Aparently Catalunya makes spanish speakers feel a bit more lonely than other provinces. Even some villages in Aragón mainly speak catalá. Maybe that's compensated with a bit more English, but don't expect much difference.
The restaurant of Hotel Abat Cisneros is close to the albergue and opens any day the hotel is open (don't know if they close some days in Winter)
Dinner 27,50€. Not bad for a former horse stable. pilgrims menu will be less.
Tourist restaurants should be open from easter to October, but only on weekends you can eat something in the early evening (till 20:00h), Prices are still high, so as a pilgrim the Hotel should be the best choice.
https://www.montserratvisita.com/en/organize-the-visit/where-to-eat
About solitude. Aparently Catalunya makes spanish speakers feel a bit more lonely than other provinces. Even some villages in Aragón mainly speak catalá. Maybe that's compensated with a bit more English, but don't expect much difference.
I did not try to say something in this sense. Some of my best camino friends are catalan, but I'm still not able to talk that language.Catalans are warm and hospitable people, and any issues which they might have with the folks in Madrid are not visited upon pilgrims.
I did not try to say something in this sense. Some of my best camino friends are catalan, but I'm still not able to talk that language.
What I wanted to say: while I walked alone in Catalunya i sensed the language barrier often enough, while it was totally different with the locals if I had company from someone speaking catalan or speaking castellano in other provinces. If you speak "John Wayne"-ishyou'll probably not notice that.
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