VDLP - Too late in the year ?

[Ross1066]

Hello All,

I am thinking to walk the VDLP in the next couple of weeks but am wondering if I have left it a little too late for this year. I am less concerned about daylight hours (clocks go back in a couple of weeks time) ... and not so worried about the weather, but was wondering when the albergues start to close up for the year.

If I left Seville on October 16th I would expect to arrive in SDC on about 22nd November.

Thoughts welcomed please.
Ross

 

[trecile]

There are quite a few people who wait until October to walk the VdlP because it is finally starting to cool down in Southern Spain. I believe that @lt56ny walked it during that time period.

 

[Ross1066]

Thanks Trecile - appreciated.

 

[Bradypus]

I have walked the Via de la Plata in October and also in January/February. For the second one I did encounter some snow on several days. Mostly the weather was pleasantly cool. While summer on the VdlP is often dangerously hot I don't find winter too challenging.

 

[AlanSykes]

I've started twice from Seville on 31 October, and once around the 15th and all were fine. (Well, some were wet and cold by the time I got to Galicia, but I never had a problem finding a bed).

 

[Ross1066]

Wonderful ... and thank you Alan - very kind of you to reply

 

[J Willhaus]

Check Gronze.com, but many albergues on this route are open all year. You may need to get a key a d let yourself in though.

 

[LTfit]

Climate can vary from year to year but I've done the Plata in the summer, fall and winter. What is too late? In the winter a few municipal albergues were closed but there was always an economical alternative. Fall was wonderful and we were lucky with little rain, even in Galicia.

 

[Ross1066]

Thanks everyone for your kind help ... it sounds like VDLP is a different kind of journey to the other Camino's in that is so much quieter and by extension - more personal. And actually having a little bit of 'concern' oddly enough raises the sense of achievement. In the grand scheme of things there are bigger worries.