No more suitcases, says 11 Albergues on the Camino Frances
Eleven albergues within the Camino Frances has announced that they will implement a new measure from around the third week of June.The eleven traditional Jacobean shelters are prohibiting suitcases in the hostels managed by their associations, agreeing to be militant against what they term "attacks suffered by the route".
Unprecedented May numbers of pilgrims
According to their press release there is an extraordinary level of pilgrimage at the moment, unprecedented in a May month of the last ten years. They are advising municipalities among the Camino to be prepared to open municipal facilities such as sports centres or other similar spaces, which some towns have reportedly already done.
Federation meeting
The decision to ban suitcases from these albergues was take...