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Hi thanks for the information very handy as we are keeping and eye on the weather as we count down the days to our first Camino in 37 Hours 19 hours 35 minutesDay 5 into the Camino from Pamplona. I arrived March 1st with a slight drizzle but since then all weather reports of rainy Armageddon on the Camino Frances (rain predicted every day) have been grossly exaggerated. I have not had to put on my poncho yet and most days either clear or broken clouds. So those anxiously checking all the weather reports... the best way to check the weather is to stick your head out the window, or in other words you have to be there.
For those starting Camino over the next week or so, some observations. Most of the camino water taps in towns have not been turned on and many bars and restaurants are still closed,so plan your water accordingly. Also the Albergue list posted in other threads is pretty accurate, so don't expect otherwise.
Jakue albergue in Puente la Reine has not opened the basement albergue, but if you go to the front desk and ask for an albergue bed they'll put you in a private room for 12 euro. I had a four bed private for the night. Another bonus of the "off season".
My secret hostel in Estella is still closed so I went to the old standby municipal, which to my delight have updated the bathrooms and showers. Unfortunately they no longer play Bob Marley to wake you up, "Don't worry about a thing..."
Tonight I'm staying in the outstanding Winederful Hostel in Logrono. Six months new, it is attached to a coffee bar in a renovated space 100 metres from the cathedral. It was beds with privacy curtains, bed linen, leather couches, immaculately clean, funky 80's music (think Elvis Costello or New Order)... great boutique vibe. World class hostel for 16 euro that includes breakfast. Best part is keyed access so you can stay out and partake in the best tapas and red wine in Spain. Can be booked via booking.com, and you are interested I'd book early because it won't stay a secret long.
Tapas tonight!!!!
Day 5 into the Camino from Pamplona. I arrived March 1st with a slight drizzle but since then all weather reports of rainy Armageddon on the Camino Frances (rain predicted every day) have been grossly exaggerated. I have not had to put on my poncho yet and most days either clear or broken clouds. So those anxiously checking all the weather reports... the best way to check the weather is to stick your head out the window, or in other words you have to be there.
For those starting Camino over the next week or so, some observations. Most of the camino water taps in towns have not been turned on and many bars and restaurants are still closed,so plan your water accordingly. Also the Albergue list posted in other threads is pretty accurate, so don't expect otherwise.
Jakue albergue in Puente la Reine has not opened the basement albergue, but if you go to the front desk and ask for an albergue bed they'll put you in a private room for 12 euro. I had a four bed private for the night. Another bonus of the "off season".
My secret hostel in Estella is still closed so I went to the old standby municipal, which to my delight have updated the bathrooms and showers. Unfortunately they no longer play Bob Marley to wake you up, "Don't worry about a thing..."
Tonight I'm staying in the outstanding Winederful Hostel in Logrono. Six months new, it is attached to a coffee bar in a renovated space 100 metres from the cathedral. It was beds with privacy curtains, bed linen, leather couches, immaculately clean, funky 80's music (think Elvis Costello or New Order)... great boutique vibe. World class hostel for 16 euro that includes breakfast. Best part is keyed access so you can stay out and partake in the best tapas and red wine in Spain. Can be booked via booking.com, and you are interested I'd book early because it won't stay a secret long.
Tapas tonight!!!!
Day 5 into the Camino from Pamplona. I arrived March 1st with a slight drizzle but since then all weather reports of rainy Armageddon on the Camino Frances (rain predicted every day) have been grossly exaggerated. I have not had to put on my poncho yet and most days either clear or broken clouds. So those anxiously checking all the weather reports... the best way to check the weather is to stick your head out the window, or in other words you have to be there.
For those starting Camino over the next week or so, some observations. Most of the camino water taps in towns have not been turned on and many bars and restaurants are still closed,so plan your water accordingly. Also the Albergue list posted in other threads is pretty accurate, so don't expect otherwise.
Jakue albergue in Puente la Reine has not opened the basement albergue, but if you go to the front desk and ask for an albergue bed they'll put you in a private room for 12 euro. I had a four bed private for the night. Another bonus of the "off season".
My secret hostel in Estella is still closed so I went to the old standby municipal, which to my delight have updated the bathrooms and showers. Unfortunately they no longer play Bob Marley to wake you up, "Don't worry about a thing..."
Tonight I'm staying in the outstanding Winederful Hostel in Logrono. Six months new, it is attached to a coffee bar in a renovated space 100 metres from the cathedral. It was beds with privacy curtains, bed linen, leather couches, immaculately clean, funky 80's music (think Elvis Costello or New Order)... great boutique vibe. World class hostel for 16 euro that includes breakfast. Best part is keyed access so you can stay out and partake in the best tapas and red wine in Spain. Can be booked via booking.com, and you are interested I'd book early because it won't stay a secret long.
Tapas tonight!!!!
Hi thanks for the information very handy as we are keeping and eye on the weather as we count down the days to our first Camino in 37 Hours 19 hours 35 minutes
We are going for our fist camino on the 17th of March starting at SJDP we have plan only to take two changes of clothes a good jacket and a poncho will this be Ok for this time of the year with so much rain?
You should be good as long as the clothes are quick dry. I bring a pair of gortex rain pants too, to wear on rainy days (not over my zip off pants). Youll find regular pants get soaked where poncho ends and pants begin, and then water pours directly into ankles of shoes. I like my rain pants as they are really light, they breathe and i use them as lounging pants at night or when washing my clothes.
Hmmm....Well, I walk in cotton, leather army boots, and my big black woollen pilgrim cape -- did so in fact yesterday in heavy rain.
"Quick dry" -- yeah, not exactly ... LOL
But it all dries anyway, even pilgrim passports soaked completely right through do as well BTW.
Water pouring "directly into ankles of shoes" ?? Not my experience. Ever. Not with hiking kit. Worst is boot leather being either pierced, or so saturated in heavy rainwater that it becomes porous -- but at that degree of things, no gortex will protect you ; holes in it will let water in just the same, and rainfall heavy enough to make army boots wet through and through won't protect your hi-tech feet from the wet.
(though the year I ended up having to walk 100s of K alternately barefoot or in cheap espadrilles was a standout -- an experience I do not recommend, particularly when you find yourself facing a viper on the path basically defenseless)
Yeah my cheap cotton t-shirt and cheap cotton jeans (black !!) get soaked, and ?? It's just water. What's so different about it versus the cold showers we had to take on the Camino in the '90s ? Or even the hot ones we take now ?
Try sleeping out with no cover in a military sleeping bag in a heavy thunderstorm, then you'll maybe stop worrying about the odd drop of water onto your toes.
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Yes, there are some people with faster metabolisms and with low body fat etc more prone than others to exposure, and these do need to take particular care -- but in normal rainy conditions the hi-tech is of little advantage over the low-tech, price-wise in particular, whereas in the actual extreme conditions possible on the Camino there's not much advantage in extra expenses in most realistic price ranges except in certain types of military surplus kit.
Hmmm....
You do realize they make quite a bit of outdoors kit these days that are quite inexpensive and function much better than the wool and cotton stuff of old.
lice infested wool tunic
Love your avatar! Buen Camino!Just finished a days walking from Roncevallis and it snowed all day......
Wunder Station, have you tried that?9 days out and keeping an eye on the weather!Is there an easy,"best" way to find weather forecasts?
Thanks for these updates.Too good to last... the rains have come in the Burgos area. Yesterday was a steady light drizzle with a few bands of harder rain and this morning on and off showers but has cleared up tonight. Trails continue to be pretty good on the gravel infused or groomed areas with the usual puddles to navigate. As typical this type of year the harder rains occur overnight.
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