I am in a hamlet called Vendas de Naroa. Today I took it "easy" tomorrow I'll pay the price. I had to stop here even though I could go longer because of the massive shortage of albergues. At this stage I don't know where ill sleep tomorrow nor the day after. This morning the woman who runs the albergue gave her 2 cents about the situation: "how can peregrinos compete with people who do the camino as a sport and arrive at the next major city at 9 am?" I am glad I'm not the only person asking myself this.
Apparently up until 6-7 years ago most albergues where FREE but the sheer number of people coming through changed that. I have spoken with various peregrinos (Colim and David from Ireland) who started at St Jean in France and the consensus is the 'real' camino is lived further back where you can walk without hurry and until you are tired without worrying about sleeping because you'll find a bed.
Picture-new massive albergue being built to meet demand.
¡Buen Camino! Xacobeo 2011
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