Your sites have been incredibly well done and so informative. So let's jump right in! Enjoy the break! Thank You! Thank you for the comment! We do not do well on the inclines and that is kind of bothering me but then if we are not challenged then what is the point? Email us anytime, on average we provide quotes within 6 hours during business hours and the next day during off business hours. Every marker in the itinerary it’s a end of stage counting up to 31. April and October can be nice as well if you’re lucky with the weather. 82km out of 112km on the Camino Ingles is on asphalt. If you walk 14km more from Neda you’ll get to Pontedeume. This website uses cookies to provide you the best user experience. I used to travel alone to Spain and Portugal quite a lot in the past and have great memories of those trip. From our Camino experience in Galicia, you can be lucky or unlucky with the weather regardless of the season, we had some cold and rainy days in June and nice and sunny days in October but in general, it rains a lot here. Accommodation. The direct train takes 2 hours, the price is 21 Euro. Note! The last 120km on the Portuguese Camino from Tui is another popular option to walk for the beginners. Alya loves walking since she was a child, she prefers to walk a 1000 km with a backpack rather than to do a 10 000 km road trip (actually any road trip). The hospitalero arrives at 8 pm to do check-in. My husband and I would like very much to walk the entire Camino in 2023 but I am now considering breaking it down into chunks. Beautiful forest Bosque Encantado (Enchanted forest) in the middle of the day. Albergue is located about 400 m from the restaurant and 200 m from the Camino route, there is a sign pointing the direction. The price is a non-binding estimate subject to confirmation upon payment. The English Way is the shortest Camino de Santiago route (except the Camino Finisterre which starts in Santiago de Compostela), it’s a great route for first-time pilgrims who want to get a taste of the Camino before doing one of the longer routes. Although you are reach the high point of the camino on this stage, it's not a particularly difficult ascent. There are two exclusions (we inquired about it at the Pilgrim’s Reception Office in Santiago de Compostela); pilgrims who live in A Coruña and walk from there to Santiago can get the Compostela. Hello, My girlfriend and I have decided to do the walk and we are most excited. Furthermore, check out Los Templarios Castle, which has a moat, a drawbridge and also houses the knights templar library. All buses leave and arrive at the same bus terminal in A Coruña it’s easy to switch buses there. This is the final evening before you make your glorious arrival in Santiago. A double room with an attached bathroom is 40€, a single room – 25€. It’s great to have travel insurance if your trip gets canceled, a flight delay, or a gear loss as well. More details on this topic you can find in the “Luggage transfer on the Camino Ingles” paragraph. At the end of every day, there is a table with distances between the towns and facilities along the route. At 16 km in front of the bar, there are several metal and stone sculptures of people and animals, the most impressive is a giant dinosaur. The Pilgrim’s Reception Office is opened from 8 am to 8 pm but there are many people inside they might close the gate at 7 pm or even a bit earlier make sure to arrive early enough. Similar to the day before, there are no long climbs or descents; but the path is undulating and you do end up with a moderate amount of elevation gain and loss. It may be your last evening to make a connection with a stranger on the camino. We were there in June and it was booked two weeks ahead. Some people prefer to break it up into two stages, stoping in the middle at Melide. This route is growing in popularity, every year more and more pilgrims choose this Camino, but it’s still far from being as busy and crowded as the French Camino. This may sound daft but my big fear is of animals, particularly dogs in towns and at rural houses and as such I would prefer to do it when the Camino would be busy with other pilgrims, safety in numbers lol! It’s situated very close to the route, in the quiet area close to the river. We bought stuff in supermarkets and made our food most of the time, our average shopping bill for two meals (dinner and breakfast) was about 7€ per person. . The walk into Portomarin is on a long bridge over Embalse de Belesar. To keep your Compostela safe you can buy a special tube card box tube for 5€. Get 5% off today! Playa Grande de Miño, close to the albergue. Required fields are marked *. As usual, we stopped for coffee several times, it was a nice day, part of the walk was through the forest nice and quiet scenery. As for the season from May to September, all Camino routes are quite busy, the French and the Portuguese Caminos are the busiest Caminos with hundreds of people walking every day, you might consider walking the last 100km on any of these two instead of walking the quieter English Way.