Richard: consultation

[Xosé Manuel Alvariño]

Richard, am planning on taking 1 1/2 mo to do the Camino, starting on June 
1st, Roncesvalles. I'd like to ask you a few questions based on this.
1) Is that plenty of time?
2) What would u say, ball park, could be a daily walking average, in miles, 
with a time framework of 1 1/2 mo?
3) I expect to be arriving in  Santiago during the first 2 weeks in July-how 
crowded do you think that geographic area could be?

Thanks,

Abrazos de Xosé Manuel

In a message dated 2/21/2003 3:34:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
peregrinoaATT.NET writes:

> The overall tradeoff is that the better the weather, the more crowded it 
> will be.
> 
> July and August have the most pilgrims, 15,000 a month or more.  They are 
> also
> the only dry months.  The off season for pilgrims is, as you would expect,
> November to March, with fewer than 1000 pilgrims per month.  April starts 
> the
> major flows of pilgrims, and it increases every month from April to August.
> September is about half of the August number, so still busy, too busy for 
> my
> taste.
> 
> I stared at weather and pilgrim data til I was blue in the face.  I ended 
> up
> going in late March.  I choose worse weather to avoid crowds.  The weather 
> that I
> actually got was better than the average, I only had rain one day in five, 
> so I
> was lucky.
> 
> It comes down to your choice, just realize that you can't have both good 
> weather
> and no crowds, unless you are very lucky with the weather.
> 
> Richard
> 

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