Lorca planning

Today we had a break to wait for the wind to lay down before making a start again in the direction of Zarcilla de Ramos.

We made use of the time to have a late breakfast. We had to move to another location as EL34 could not extend our stay. We are in hotel Felix now. There were far less places in Lorca available then we would have thought which seemed to have been the forebode of our further planning.

We spent the whole afternoon finding places to stay for our next few days. Nothing in Zarcilla, no where in Doña Inés, nothing in Coy. We tried alternatives, skipping the whole stage to Caravaca and starting in Moratalla. We already had alternatives with taxis in place, now starting adding even more? What about bus options, the train… long story short, we just could not make it work.

Brainstorming: Going back to camino’s we did before then? Doing the Mozerabe from Malaga we thought of doing earlier. Going to Italy…?
We decided to go to Valencia where we will start (part of) the Levante and maybe we will end up in Toledo still.

I feel a bit disappointed that we had come to a stop. We did a lot of preparation, but i never had anticipated that the accommodation planning would be our biggest problem.

We still want to keep walking, in the south, away from the problem areas so hit by the last storms. And if this also is not going to work, at least we tried.

For now thanks for everybody’s input. Also speaking for Debi, we really wanted to add to the available documentation, to make this part of Spain more accessible for other peregrino’s. All we can say, February is not a good time for the inland part of the Argar.
~G

We were determined that the weather not defeat us and were laying low in Lorca until the winds died down. But we had not anticipated that we would not find places to sleep, moving forward. It's too early in the year for tourism in the interior, it seems. Too bad, because other than being on the outskirts of this year's severe storms throughout Spain, the weather at this time of year can be ideal.
Not too hot and not too cold.
Very little precipitation. We had two crazy weather days
(yesterday and the day we left Almeria), but that is not bad at all given the weather drama in the rest of the country. Fingers crossed for the Levante!
~debi

Accommodation:
Hotel Felix, Basic, 73 euro for a room for two.

Total walk 8 days on the Camino Argar - total distance 157 kmRead more