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Good suggestion!
They were acceptable in 2015. I think this battle between Cathedral and others began last year if I remember correctly when the thread on this topic was posted. In Zamora I got free Credencial in TO across the Plaza from Parador. Later I was told that they sell them now because unidentified people were selling the same (free) Credenciales for 5€ and more... I guess in a way it's good to regulate this thing about Credenciales but on the other hand I can't see real reason (apart from purely financial for the SdC Cathedral) why those from different Amigos groups aren't recognized as official.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/gps-tracks-for-the-levante.32426/
I stayed at the Hostal Moreno. Very nice and modern, except for the smell of cigarette smoke. As to the shin splints, what I am doing is just low mileage days. For example, I only walked 11k today to Beniyou SP?...Tomorrow 16k. I plan to keep it below 20k until I hit earth trekking. Plus, i probably wont have any other choice when I get further from Valencia. The weather is PERFECT! (knock on wood).Hi, pilgr, glad to hear you made it to Sillas. Where are you staying and eating in Sillas? I walked out and took the train back so I would have another day in Valencia, and the next morning I got an early train and started in Sillas.
I think you will like Algemesi tomorrow -- see if you can find paella in the Casino restaurant. I don't know if they make it on weekdays, but it's very yummy as you might guess, given where you are.
Are you finding ways to stay off the pavement to give those shins a break?
We are very sad about that because we many of us LOVE the Pensión París.
Good decision @pilgr , short distances at the beginning. I don't have shin splints problems but the tarmac is HARD on my soles, auch...
Welcome to the forum @JLWV
Well, in my understanding it's stealing. If offered by farmer that's completely different story. Although I think farmer wouldn't really mind missing one orange per week according to info about pilgrims heading off from Valencia
I would suggest Albergue El Cigroner. I was told it's much nicer than El Palau at almost similar price - 19€. The number of the hospitalero is: 634 514 277. Great guy, even offered me first two beers for free. The rooms are modern, there's an elevator, everything impecably clean etc. It's located on Calle San Domenech, the street to the right if you look in direction of El Palau.
Send me a PM or post it here what's your next planned stop and I'll try to suggest something. Where there are albergues or better said acogida municipal/polideportivo usually you have to go to/call Policia Local for the keys. I still have all the telephone numbers for my stays in 2015.
To navigate in the cities mostly I either ask or follow arrows (there are some albergues etc.right on the Camino) or check the map on my smart phone. Of course you do need an address or at least phone number and I collect them in planning stage at home. But I do have pretty good sense of orientation so no major problems.
That would be approx.25kms. You have three options to stock up in Carcaixent, Pobla Llarga and Manuel and then another 2 hours to Xativa which is really nice little city as already mentioned. Try to find the location of albergue in Xativa already today and remember it so you won't have to stare at your smart phone in sunlight. Well, at least you won't have rain tomorrow as I can see
Unfortunatelly not, I was too tired and it also rained. But there is always another time
Well, now, you see... don't always believe what Laurie says, hahaha. Disused railway station in Manuel can hardly be a suitable "place to stay" for most westerners but at least it was robbers and rats free
Yes, that's the one
Yes, that's the one
I slept beside the second post of the metal roof from the standpoint of the pic taken. It was the least dirty spot there
Did you get to Xativa today?
Enjoy Xativa and do go up to the castle. Usually Laurie has good suggestions!
Enjoy Xativa and do go up to the castle. Usually Laurie has good suggestions!
Next albergue is after 7kms in Canals (and about 5 private B&Bs, Pensions etc.: https://www.tripadvisor.es/Hotels-g...nce_of_Valencia_Valencian_Country-Hotels.html) but I didn't stayed there so don't have updated info:
A (??pl, MUNI, 962 244 422 (Policia Local at c/del
Cronista Sivera Font))
(Ayto: Pl.de la Vila 9, 962-240-126)
12kms (accum.19kms) later in Vallada I have info for Casa Rural but now can't find anything on-line.
7kms later (accum.26kms) in Moixent is albergue. You have to pick up keys first at Policia Local which is on the corner of the house on the left by the river just before the bridge:
A (6/8pl, MUNI, »Cruz Roja«, Asamblea Comaracal de
Cruz Roja, Avda.Hijas de la Caridad (Ctra.Nacional),
616-948-485 (Policia Local, Pl.de la Hispanidad 3)
or ask in Ayto.( Pl.Mayor, 962-295-010), K) don€
After rest day in Xativa maybe you can make it to Moixent or divide the stage by having really short day to Canals. But if you go directly to Moixent you will have much shorter next day to La Font de la Figuera, 16kms.
Enjoy Xativa and do go up to the castle. Usually Laurie has good suggestions!
Next albergue is after 7kms in Canals (and about 5 private B&Bs, Pensions etc.: https://www.tripadvisor.es/Hotels-g...nce_of_Valencia_Valencian_Country-Hotels.html) but I didn't stayed there so don't have updated info:
A (??pl, MUNI, 962 244 422 (Policia Local at c/del
Cronista Sivera Font))
(Ayto: Pl.de la Vila 9, 962-240-126)
12kms (accum.19kms) later in Vallada I have info for Casa Rural but now can't find anything on-line.
7kms later (accum.26kms) in Moixent is albergue. You have to pick up keys first at Policia Local which is on the corner of the house on the left by the river just before the bridge:
A (6/8pl, MUNI, »Cruz Roja«, Asamblea Comaracal de
Cruz Roja, Avda.Hijas de la Caridad (Ctra.Nacional),
616-948-485 (Policia Local, Pl.de la Hispanidad 3)
or ask in Ayto.( Pl.Mayor, 962-295-010), K) don€
After rest day in Xativa maybe you can make it to Moixent or divide the stage by having really short day to Canals. But if you go directly to Moixent you will have much shorter next day to La Font de la Figuera, 16kms.
In Moixent you just follow the Camino through the old town (you'll pass ayuntamiento on your left) on Plaza Mayor, continue straight and after the bridge veer right and Policia Local will be straight ahead at the end of that street. Or just ask
Well, that Red Cross shelter wasn't all that bad. Located above the bus station where mall was, with Guardia Civil barracks next to it (red brick building in second photo), WI-FI from the neighbour Red Cross office, microwave oven, huge fridge. I made improvized table with a board and four canisters and enjoyed the evening there with another Spanish pilgrim.
Uh, that's a tough one. I wasn't really on alert for that because I wished I have had air cooling when walking
But maybe sometimes there are electric heaters. Usually in communal area but I guess you can move it to dorm. But most of pilgrim albergues (not to mix with albergues turisticos) or rather polideportivos on Levante are more or less just one or two rooms plus bathroom/toilet. 
Laurie, was this the one you stayed in? I don't believe it's the same. This one has kitchen and bathroom obviously completely renovated. Bedroom photo is of my bedroom but there's another one a bit better/nicer equipped. I was completely satisfied with mine
Laurie, was this the one you stayed in? I don't believe it's the same. This one has kitchen and bathroom obviously completely renovated. Bedroom photo is of my bedroom but there's another one a bit better/nicer equipped. I was completely satisfied with mine
It's beautiful Camino for me. First day some not so beautiful suburbs, then three days of orange and caqui groves almost all on tarmac but after climb out of coastal flats (that's generally after Xativa) the landscape changes and the way is more or less fine gravel or dirt AG paths. Lots of cereals, garlic around Las Pedroneras (you can smell it walking by the fields), olive groves later on, some beautiful architecture and castles (Xativa, Almansa, Chinchilla Monte Aragon, Toledo, Avila, Toro, Zamora), windmills and Don Xiquote monuments around Mota del Cuervo and El Toboso, some very nice albergues (Xativa - El Cigroner, Hoya Gonzalo, La Roda - in bull ring!!!, Avila, Gotarrendura, Zamora) and some in polideportivos/swimming pool changing rooms/classrooms etc. But can get really hellish hot and not much shade in general, just few trees here and there. Although locals are very welcoming it's better to speak some basic Spanish. Signage is more or less adequate with some tricky spots, mostly where Levante and Sureste goes different ways.Hi folks, this thread has re-ignited my desire to walk this path for sure! We've just driven home from a holiday and to pass some of the time I read @peregrina2000 's Levante guide to my husband. We're both now really committed to walking the Levante
This one is also at the end of town and very close to polideportivo. In first photo you can see the road that goes straight on, that's Camino. But if you turn right before albergue (street sign for Valencia) you're at polideportivo in maybe 30 meters. So polideportivo is to the right after old lavadera and before albergue.
Maybe not a lot but definitely possible to walk even 20km stages most of the way if you don't chicken out on some of them
2015 was the year. You won't hear about Moixent new albergue until tomorrow or a day after tomorrow
No need to locate the old one
The lavadero in attachement.So that comment jarred my memory. What I remember about Font de la Figuera is that our little albergue was after the old lavadero (am I remembering right that this was possibly the longest lavadero we have ever seen on a Camino?) but BEFORE the polideportivo. Do you remember seeing any sort of little boxlike structure in the grounds before you came to the polideportivo? It seems strange to me that there would be two little box like structures so close to each other so maybe I am remembering something wrong.
They say that "memory games" are good for aging brains, so thanks, Kinky for giving me lots of exercise.
Thanks, pilgr, for giving us lots to chew on!
I looked at La Bodega Casa Rural near Moix...That place is NICE!
Hahaha, Matt, me and Laurie are talking about location of "new" (2014) albergue in La Font de la Figuera which is close to la bodega which is wine cellar (also wine selling shop) in Spanish.
I don't know if it is on Camino, anyway it is past Moixent so I don't know how would that fit in your stages? What's your plan for tomorrow?Hahaha, Matt, me and Laurie are talking about location of "new" (2014) albergue in La Font de la Figuera which is close to la bodega which is wine cellar (also wine selling shop) in Spanish.
If I found the right La Bodega price per person for tomorrow is down to 45€ and it sure looks very nice. But will you use outdoor swimming pool?
Agree with Laurie. I would just add one more between Higueruela and Chinchilla de Monte Aragon that's in Hoya Gonzalo. I really recommend it. But Matt already has my list of albergues so he can see them all.
At this point Sureste runs south of them both and connects with Levante in Chinchilla.
And Laurie, ahm, Alpera is actually on La Lana
Did you stay there? If you did you may have noticed by looking in the sign-in book that my two French pals and I were the very first people to ever stay in the albergue.
Ah, the cave drawings trip was in Hoya Gonzalo??? I remember that from your blog but thought that was in Alpera because I saw a thick book about cave drawings in whole of Spain there in the kitchen downstairs.Thanks for keeping me honest.
Very nice place, I thought. The woman in the cultural office took us up in her jeep out of town to see what used to be spectacular cave drawings, but which have been ruined by about 100 years of people touching them. But all in all a very nice stop!
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How mant km before Almansa should I get on the autopista?
Ah, the cave drawings trip was in Hoya Gonzalo??? I remember that from your blog but thought that was in Alpera because I saw a thick book about cave drawings in whole of Spain there in the kitchen downstairs.
I liked that albergue very much. Enjoyed cold beer on almost desolated Plaza watching R4 parked there, lingering by the swimming pool across the street in the afternoon and in the evening soaking up the solitude and sunset on the terrace above... If I'll ever walk Levante again that's a must stop for me, with taking a dip in the pool (I forgot my swim suit...) of course.
Seems like we're hijacking the thread from Matt but it's so nice to remember certain things from that beautiful Camino.
PS (Some photos attached I guess you'll recognize. At the end of this thread I will have so many downsized photos that posting my journal is inevitable
Laurie explained it well about new and old albergue. Nothing more to say.
I just have to make a comment if that room IS albergue and only that room then it went from "not so good" to "very bad". Is there a fridge, showers, anything like a kitchenette?
Maybe a new one has better location but I was completely satisfied with panoramic vista over Moixent in the evening. And supermercado not far away at the bus station. Ah, well...
True again, Laurie, there is another albergue. About 500mts after leaving Moixent on tarmac road there's the sign for it. See attached photo. That makes the distance from Moixent AND off the Camino approx.8kms. Not sure why would anyone walking Camino go there. It's obvious that it's some kind of archaeological compound where The Warrior statuette was found. And it's in Valencia
So you decided to stay in albergue?
I hope that this "new" albergue is just provisional for the time the old one is being renovated. I'm afraid not, otherwise they would move beds and chairs to new one but they are not the same.
How many km to Almansa from Moix..? How does one skip the industrial section, take a bus? I am thinking of staying in La Font. Hopefully the albergue has blankets.I hope that this "new" albergue is just provisional for the time the old one is being renovated. I'm afraid not, otherwise they would move beds and chairs to new one but they are not the same.
But OK, I've spent nights in worse places
Long day tomorrow to Almansa. Nice walk in the beginning but the last part after railway and highway mentioned by @JLWV can be absolutely skipped, nothing worth see there, just a mix of AG&industrial suburb. I remember awful smell of trash on that stretch and because of the heat the smell was even worse.
PS (Let me know if you need directions to monastery albergue in Almansa.)
I appologise, tomorrow to La Font de la Figuera
Your notes about albergue Font is no bedding. I assume that still is true or were u all talking about a new albergue there?I appologise, tomorrow to La Font de la Figuera
16kms approx. but not more than 20kms. Nice walk. The first day when you'll get vague picture of how Levante will look further on with its cereal fields etc.
Easy to find Plaza Mayor in La Font. On the left side is supermercado and on the upper side there's a bar and left to it is Policia Local. If the Police car isn't parked there buy yourself a beer in a bar and wait. Half an hour and he'll be there. You'll also get the map of the village to find albergue and find your way the next day. No need to bring keys back to Police station.
Warning: albergue has very nice kitchen but without pots and pans (in 2015!). Anyway it's not far to go back to supermercado if the situation is different now.
For photos of albergue in La Font de la Figuera see my post No.59 in this thread. There are 12 places and in 2015 were just 5 mattresses. I guess that's enough for one tired body
But no blankets, sheets etc., you need a sleeping bag and I assume you have one walking in winter...For photos of albergue in La Font de la Figuera see my post No.59 in this thread. There are 12 places and in 2015 were just 5 mattresses. I guess that's enough for one tired body
No "new" albergue there to my knowledge.
@KinkyOne
That'll be a tough one on Levante unless you're prepared to pay for private lodging. But I do remember few albergues with blankets. First one in Almansa, the nuns will surely give you one if needed.
Officially it's 26kms from La Font to Almansa.
OK, then you are good to sleep in albergues.
Once you get to Almansa you will find another great castle. When I stayed with the nuns in 2014 they preferred pilgrims to use the back door on C Miguel de Cervantes. The back door is opposite the excellent Hogar del Productor restaurant, a bustling friendly place with gazpacho manchego starter and I had a delicious fish and cockle main course, vaguely like a simple zarzuela. Very good value when I was there.
