Last minute important questions

[John and Reba MacFarlane]

I will be a first time pilgrim and will be departing tomorrow or Monday (the
10 or 11th) for Spain and plan to start walking from Burgos to Sarria by the
end of next week.
I will have in hand a Credential as supplied to me by Friends of the Road .
Where do the documents get stamped?  At the stamping locations, are there any
special hours of operation, Etc.? Also,I have noted some discussion about
needing "2 stamps" in some areas of the camino, can anyone please enlighten
me on that point?

M'Lou, Your sharing of your recent experience in walking some of the same
portions of the Camino which I will be walking was of special interest.  Did
you stay in the refugios and were any of them any better than others? Did you
experience any difficulty finding spaces for 3 people on a nightly basis.  I
will be alone on this walk but plan to have my wife and adult daughter with
me to walk Sarria to Santiago in late September - early October.

Thank you all for your time and indulgence in considering my last minute
retquests for information.

John