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If you go due North you'll intersect the Via de Bayona. The first albergue is in Quintanavides, 18km, but mostly a gradual downhill. Then Monasterio de Rodilla also has an albergue, another 5km or so along. Nothing is open in the latter on Tuesdays, but you'd be clear of it by then. It's a really pleasant way into Burgos, unlike the Frances.I'm considering from there maybe taking the more roundabout route through the more northerly pueblos, but not decided yet.
This is hands down THE most helpful post I have ever had on this forum.If you go due North you'll intersect the Via de Bayona. The first albergue is in Quintanavides, 18km, but mostly a gradual downhill. Then Monasterio de Rodilla also has an albergue, another 5km or so along. Nothing is open in the latter on Tuesdays, but you'd be clear of it by then. It's a really pleasant way into Burgos, unlike the Frances.
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Wonderful!I am on the Camino Vasco Interior / Via de Bayona !!
Albergue status : CERRADO
So glad it's working out!This will nevertheless remain forever as one of my all-time best Camino days, not least because apart from the free cervezas and the paid ones, unavailable up in those ghastly hills, I was also fed with beautiful fried pork and wine in Castil de Peones.
The petrol station and its store would surely be open - I assume you are referring to the major truck stop with Hostal-Restaurant Hermanos Gutierrez.Petrol station isn't that far though, and I can skip part of the climbing by going on the tarmac.
I've just asked, and yes there's a little shop there ; and those places do take cards. Closed this evening clearly, but not moving anyway 'til the morning.
This will save me from the bus, and the tarmac looks feasible.
Not letting one lone pilgrim sleep in the Albergue because of Covid seems not to make much sense, but that's the reason given by one of those in charge here.
Sure, but it's getting towards the time of month when I have to start counting the pennies more carefully, and can manage few such extras.And the hostal accepts creditcards I remember.
You're there! Fantastic.as I reached the centre of Burgos finally, a great big smile came over me ; and though I supposed nobody noticed, one elderly man did and stopped me for a pilgrim chat.
As are several donativo Albergues.Albergue Vicus is private....
There is a distinction between being donativo and being able to reserve a bed. They are not the same thing.Do you have a reservation ?
No ?
Sorry, completo.
That is not how donativo is supposed to work.
We don't usually like it, but change is unavoidable in life - so the choice is to either adapt or suffer. Wishing you a minimum of the latter, @JabbaPapa !There certainly is a need for making reservations at the moment. The albergue at Roncesvalles was totally full last Sunday with 140 beds occupied, even the winter albergue was full. The last weeks we regularly filled up to nearly the maximum capacity (which is 91 beds now due to the Covid regulations) and last Sunday we filled up to much more than this maximum because there were groups and families who did not have to keep the required distance, so we could use more beds. Then we opened the winter albergue with 20 beds, some people went to the hotel and even then pilgrims had to be taken by car to Espinal! It is unexpected crowded at the moment, so please make reservations for a bed!
Are you still with us, @JabbaPapa?This is by far the toughest Camino I have ever
Oh, I can well imagine.I hate it of course, but I need to go home.
Oh, this is most certainly NOT the end -- I am most certainly still walking home to home.I so enjoyed your log.
Sad to see it end.
There's actually been good breeze over the meseta in these past weeks, so that with some exceptions, the heat has been more tolerable generally than the temps would indicate.BTW...with this tormenting heat
It's working again -- seems it needed a few weeks to get completely dried out again.Day106 -- Logroño
I had an unfortunate accident near the start, skipping as I crossed a small river, and the hand-held device I've been using as a mini-tablet got soaked and now won't switch on.
I hope your joints will soon be working again, Jabbapapa.It's working again -- seems it needed a few weeks to get completely dried out again.
Albertagirl,I have been thinking of your recent walk, and how you had to sleep outside several times. I have had huge problems trying to find accommodations on the Levante, finally culminating this afternoon in a telephone conversation with the reservation person at the Posada in Higueruela. She informed me that there will not be any available accommodation there tomorrow and there's nothing else in town, with the albergue closed. I can't stay here, so my options are to sleep outside or to try to find a bus to take me on to some less busy place, where I can relax a bit and hopefully book far enough ahead to not need to sleep outside.
Sleeping outside is simply a necessity on many of these less-travelled/more remote Camino Ways, but it does take some getting used to, particularly if you've not really done it before. And busing this section or that really is just to kick the can down the road instead of facing the problem head on.I have been thinking of your recent walk, and how you had to sleep outside several times. I have had huge problems trying to find accommodations on the Levante, finally culminating this afternoon in a telephone conversation with the reservation person at the Posada in Higueruela. She informed me that there will not be any available accommodation there tomorrow and there's nothing else in town, with the albergue closed. I can't stay here, so my options are to sleep outside or to try to find a bus to take me on to some less busy place, where I can relax a bit and hopefully book far enough ahead to not need to sleep outside.
Got itOff-topic -- nevertheless HOORAY !! -- I'm getting ultra-fast fibre internet next week !!
JabbaPapa,Got it
What they're doing here is horrid.
The cape does not make the pilgrim.Not even wearing my big black plgrim cape LOL !!!
Jabbapapa,
That film caused me to swear off movies ever since. Cheer up, JP, you'll have a much better film:James Cameron's Titanic in impact and effect
Anyway, the longer you wait the hotter it'll be, and who needs extra challenge?But well -- the Camino beckons.
Did you go to the movie before or on the way your train?FWIW Top Gun 2 is sheer cinema spectacle. I think of it as the full potential of the first one finally realised. No spoilers, but ...
This one is definitely worth going to your absolute best local cinema screen for. I have a pretty huge 5K/2K ultrawide computer monitor, 10-bit colour full HDR. Happy to rewatch this in future on that monitor at home ; but there is no comparison with the quality of the image that you'll see at the cinema.
Yesterday. My way to the train is on foot in about 6 hours' time.Did you go to the movie before or on the way your train?
JabbaPapa,I'm on the train !!
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