Easter time crowded?

[Jim Anderson]

My wife and I went in May of 2000. It rained part of every day for the
first two weeks but only one day was really unpleasant. The last two
weeks were beautiful -- not too hot. We never worried about where we
would sleep and never had to.
Jim Anderson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage [mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU] On
Behalf
> Of Andrea Innes-Michailov
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 3:25 PM
> To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> Subject: Re: Easter time crowded?
>
> 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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