Easter time crowded?

[Andrea Innes-Michailov]

well I have not gone yet, but remember "April showers bring May
flowers"...rain is tolerable but would you really want the whole trip to be
rainy?  I plan to go in May//early June to avoid crowds and scorching
heat...but then again it COULD rain the whole time!!!
Andrea

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage [mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Chris Kendzierski
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 12:53 PM
> To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> Subject: Re: Easter time crowded?
>
>
> Hey-If March-April-May are the rainy season (?) does
> it really affect the walk much?  I have been to spain
> in March and it is cloudy- but not much rain....but
> never been in the northern part of the country.
> ChristianK
> --- Forbes Christian A <christian.forbesaSIEMENS.COM>
> wrote:
> > Richard:
> > Thanks for your message.  Where did you find the
> > statistics?  I am looking
> > for the optimum time to go as well, when refugios
> > are not busy but still
> > open, and the prospects for rain are low.  Have you
> > found out any weather
> > data?  Of course it will be catch as catch can!
> > Chris Forbes
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Ferguson [mailto:rafergusonaATT.NET]
> > Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 10:05 PM
> > To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> > Subject: Easter time crowded?
> >
> >
> > I am still trying to fix on a good date to leave for
> > the camino this
> > spring.  I noticed that March 31 is Easter, and some
> > tourist guidebooks
> > say that Easter is a big holiday, lots of people on
> > the roads, hotels
> > will be crowded, etc.  But does Easter really affect
> > the camino?  If I
> > stay in the refugios, will I even see any
> > difference?  I would imagine
> > that finding a place other than the refugio might be
> > difficult during
> > that week, but maybe even that is overstated.  I
> > would not plan to be in
> > Santiago itself Easter week, but start in mid-march,
> > finish in
> > mid-April.  If I want to avoid Easter, I would start
> > early April, and
> > finish early May.
> >
> > Any comments on being on the Camino at Eastertime?
> >
> > I tend to plan trips to avoid crowds, and my spring
> > is pretty open right
> > now.  Reviewing the month-by-month statistics, very
> > few people complete
> > the pilgrimage in March (a few hundred), while maybe
> > 2500 people
> > complete the pilgrimage in April.  Nothing like the
> > 15,000 to 20,000 a
> > month July and August.  If I look at the month by
> > month statistics, July
> > and August are busy, June and September have maybe
> > half the number of
> > pilgrims, while May and October are maybe half of
> > June and September.
> > April and May are maybe 15% of the peak time, so
> > probably a good
> > compromise time to go.
> >
> > I am probably overanalyzing it, but that is the way
> > I am.  With an open
> > calendar and no one else going with me, I have
> > perhaps too many choices.
> >
> > Richard
>
>
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