Gronze.com is a great resource listing all / most Alberques with phone contact. If you are not familiar, numbers starting with 6 are mobile numbers and you can WhatsApp most of them to sort your accommodation. It’s very common in Spain to use...
Purists? Sounds exclusionary. There is no requirement to walk the last 100K, or collect stamps, or participate in clever mid-evil or modern marketing schemes.
But there is a lot to be said for a journey, preferably a long journey, undertaken...
You've obviously never tried to bus The Camino. Autocarres, Monbus, ALSA and all the rest do their level best (masonic reference there ;)) to protect the purity of the Camino by ensuring that all their timetables are inaccessible, unintelligible...
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