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@Abigel was not starving during her week on the Camino Inglés from Ferrol to Santiago. She went voluntarily to walk for a few days and she could have left and could have gone home or gone elsewhere at any moment of the day or night if the offer...
Yes, occasionally I got served these kind of dishes, especially in small villlages where there is only one albergue/ restaurant.
I always counterbalance the next day with fruit/ veg/ yoghurt bought in a local tienda / supermercado. It is really...
In my many caminos as a vegetarian (I don't know how many kms, not counting, but probably approaching 4000), here is my experience:
This is more or less true, though I think 'barely' is an overstatement. Spain is not a vegetarian country...
My short answer to your long post is: stay in albergues! Most of them have a kitchen (and on Gronze.com you can see which have or have not) where you can prepare your own meal; problem solved.
And in most cases cooking together is a nice...
@Abigel did it never occur to you to ask for some food that might have met your breakfast requirements? I’ve never, ever, in 50 odd years of meandering Spain encountered anywhere that couldn’t or wouldn’t scramble me some eggs or wrestle up some...
As written before: both months are exactly the busiest months of the year. In these weeks every day hundreds of pilgrims start in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and in Roncesvalles (245 beds) much to our regret we have to send away many pilgrims every...
We are starting March 1 in Roncesvalles and will walk to the community of Grañón where we will serve as hospitaleros from 15 to 31 March. I hope you'll stop in to stay or at least say Hello on your way through town.
We will fly to Madrid, take...
If you plan to wash by hand on days that you will not have access to a washer/dryer, you will be in great shape. Within a week, you will be a handwashing expert (I am convinced I can get my clothes much cleaner by handwashing, but for the sake...
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