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Hi,
I'm planning to walk the CF in June too starting out from sjpdp. What dates are you starting out? I'm looking to meet up with people for the first few nights. I'm a little nervous about doing this as have never done anything like this alone before. At the same time I am really excited and ready to go!
Hello! I am planning to walk CF through June to early July this year and I have read about the crowding that occurs during those months.
Will it be a smart/good/safe choice to be booking a bunk at private albergues in advance?
I was hoping to go with the flow, but I'm not much for sleeping under the stars - I'm not sure I flow that way.
Any advice or words of wisdom you could give me would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
Hi, I'm planning to walk the CF in June too starting out from sjpdp. What dates are you starting out? I'm looking to meet up with people for the first few nights. I'm a little nervous about doing this as have never done anything like this alone before. At the same time I am really excited and ready to go!
That being within the last 100 km, and during Holy Week, sure there is a chance that section of the Camino will be busy, but impossible to predict whether or not you will have trouble finding accommodations.Seems like booking accomodation in advance is not necessary for the months of june and july. What about for the week priot to easter? I am planning to start my walk on 29 march 2015 from sarria and to complete the walk on easter sunday. Is that a busy period? Would i need to pre- book accomodation?
Hi,
I'm planning to walk the CF in June too starting out from sjpdp. What dates are you starting out? I'm looking to meet up with people for the first few nights. I'm a little nervous about doing this as have never done anything like this alone before. At the same time I am really excited and ready to go!
Hi,
I'm planning to walk the CF in June too starting out from sjpdp. What dates are you starting out? I'm looking to meet up with people for the first few nights. I'm a little nervous about doing this as have never done anything like this alone before. At the same time I am really excited and ready to go!
Hello! I am planning to walk CF through June to early July this year and I have read about the crowding that occurs during those months.
Will it be a smart/good/safe choice to be booking a bunk at private albergues in advance?
I was hoping to go with the flow, but I'm not much for sleeping under the stars - I'm not sure I flow that way.
Any advice or words of wisdom you could give me would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
I have done 7 Camino's and I find bringing a cell phone objectionable. Yet that is me and I will continue to do the Camino with as few distractions as possible, plus one less thing you need to worry about being stolen. Yes last year that seem to be the thing stolen cell phones. Buen Camino...let's keep it simple.Yeah, I agree. Sleeping under the stars is fun on a back-country backpacking trip, but not so much on a jaunt through northern Spain.
I did the Camino Frances last June-July. Up until I reached O'Cebreiro I did not encounter full albergues, private or municipal. In fact two or three times I stayed in private albergues where there were less than ten fellow peregrinos staying there at the same time, and one of the times there was only two of us.
Past O'Cebreiro it was a different matter. A lot of crowded albergues, but I always found somewhere to stay without having made reservations ahead.
If it is a concern to you, bring a cell phone and make your reservations beforehand. If you already know which towns you want to stop in, do some research and decide which private albergues you want to stay in and write down the contact information (telephone number, address) and bring that with you on the Camino, or you could just write it down or annotate it in your guidebook.
yeah, different strokes, different folks.....I have done 7 Camino's and I find bringing a cell phone objectionable. Yet that is me and I will continue to do the Camino with as few distractions as possible, plus one less thing you need to worry about being stolen. Yes last year that seem to be the thing stolen cell phones. Buen Camino...let's keep it simple.
Responsibilities for parents and children are not distractions to me, so I turn off the phone when I don't want to be distracted in the short term (actually, I declare a time window when I will turn it on to save the battery). When I need a favor from someone that requires a phone call, I consider having the cell phone a courtesy. Why should they bear the burden of my purism? Helping me on the phone is enough of a burden, but I am grateful for the consideration. I have never forced anyone to take a phone, and I hope for the reverse!with as few distractions as possible
never the less they aredistractionsResponsibilities for parents and children are not distractions to me, so I turn off the phone when I don't want to be distracted in the short term (actually, I declare a time window when I will turn it on to save the battery). When I need a favor from someone that requires a phone call, I consider having the cell phone a courtesy. Why should they bear the burden of my purism? Helping me on the phone is enough of a burden, but I am grateful for the consideration. I have never forced anyone to take a phone, and I hope for the reverse!
So are bibles and rosaries.never the less they aredistractions
ForI have done 7 Camino's and I find bringing a cell phone objectionable. Yet that is me and I will continue to do the Camino with as few distractions as possible, plus one less thing you need to worry about being stolen. Yes last year that seem to be the thing stolen cell phones. Buen Camino...let's keep it simple.
For whom do you find the phone objectionable --yourself or others. You must feel very self satisfies. I carry a phone to keep in touch with children and grandchildren and certainly do not find it a distraction. Also for women on their own I do think a phone is a necessity. You sound extremely judgemental re this phone business so I had better not mention that I also carry an I pad. Shame on me. And horror of horrors my husband and myself listen to music on our I pods as we walk,certainly not a distraction for ourselves or anyone else. Even worse we don't stay in albergues any more. Does this make us less of a pilgrim than yourselves. On our camino at present we met a man who never carries a phone but he was not averse to using mine on 2 occasions. Certainly he was keeping it simple!! Don't judge nathianal and you shall not be judged.yeah, different strokes, different folks.....
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