I was intrigued after meeting a French pilgrim who told me she always carries an albergue pillowcase and finds it useful. Thereafter I carried one and used it sometimes as an auxiliary towel. I took it home and was astonished to find how little...
I was there in April. I can't remember if there,were any luggage lockers at the station but there is a luggage office at the bus station. The person who was staffing it was very helpful and checked bus availability for me. It's a tiny bus station...
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I agree it's often easier to get a ticket from one of the secondary sellers. Unfortunately for that ticket to have any real value it requires RENFE to actually run the bl**dy train
I had a look, out of simple curiosity to see where San Sebastian de Garabandal, which I'd never heard of, is.
The place looks stunning but all the routes suggested involve long taxi journeys to the village.
Having found myself having to...
Well done for getting ths far with the Renfe website! I too had a good experience with a rail replacement bus service on this line earlier this year, though a long delay leaving Ourense meant my train was very late arriving in Santiago. Make...
The Ingles from A Coruna is easily followed and can be done in short stages. I had the Brierley guidebook which like others suggests the route is walked over 3 days. I took 6 days, though had to stay in hotels on two nights. It's a beautiful walk.
As an older person I thought my hostelling days were long gone. But the friend who first introduced me to the camino insisted that we should stay in albergues and carry our own packs. I am a complete convert to both. So much so that I now often...
I was one of those who avoided Albergues (the communal sleeping bit). Till last year.
I felt a bit of a 'fraud' and so set out to try a broad range of Albergues.
All were great!
The 'privacy' thing was not really an issue.
Neither was the...
OP, thank you for taking the trouble to respond to points made by those who responded. That is appreciated. Couple more thoughts.
It may be too late unless you are using this audience to trial it, but the questionnaire would work better if there...
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