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dancamino2010 said:Hello-
I am planning my first Camino, hoping to start in May or early June. I'm 65 years old, and will be walking alone. I'm sure I'll have several questions, but right now I have just two:
1. Any idea of how crowded this route will be, considering that it's a Holy Year? Can I count on finding inexpensive places to stay as I walk? (I would like to walk about 15 or 16 miles per stage on average.
2. Partly to reduce the distance somewhat and partly for sentimental reasons, I am considering starting in the village of Guadalupe in Extremadura. (I lived there for a short while in the early 1970s.) I know the Camino does not actually run through Guadalupe, but how close is it? Would it be hard to find the Camino from there? (I am no longer nearly as conversational in Spanish as I was 40 years ago, but I can probably get by OK.)
Thanks for any help you can give me!
peregrina2000 said:Wow, Jean-Marc,
How do you guys find this stuff?
Laurie
peregrina2000 said:Though the map is very small, the text does say that there's a camino from Caceres to Guadalupe.
William Marques said:I would say the route is easily doable to Caceres. We were in Guadalupe this summer. The first few days through the mountains will be very interesting after that you are on to the meseta. As you know the road out of Guadalupe to the West goes South to Canamero but there are forest paths. It will be harder to avoid the roads on the plain but there are minor ones which are very quiet now the autovias take most of the through traffic.
bjorgts said:I have been walking different parts of Via de la Plata for some years now, always in April/May. My opinion is that you may find that there are more people than beds on the albergues from time to time, but that is because there are not so many albergues and not so many beds. You will not be alone out there in May/June, because spring is the most popular part of the year for walking there, but during the days, you may very often not see a singel walker. "Crowded" is a very relative word. It depends on the amount of beds. Many places there are few. But you can walk in solitude! Good luck! Bjørg
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