One of the great pleasures of a long distance walk like the E4 is the chance to experience the full range of different types of accommodation. Because you’re following a route you have to take what’s available and never know quite what you’re going to get and indeed who you’re going to meet. Taking pot luck is a key part of the fun of this sort of walking but finding somewhere to stay is not always easy and often determined where I stopped each night and how far I walked each day.
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Castillo de Castellar and Casa Henriette
Just in case anyone wants to follow in my footsteps, or even do something similar, I thought it might be worth describing how I found places to stay in each country and what to expect in the different sorts of accommodation. Attached to this blog is a link to a schedule of all the places I stayed at and how to contact them.
A few general points first. I’m a tight fisted sort of guy, I don’t like spending money if I can avoid it, and set myself a daily budget which I enjoy beating. My daily budget (accommodation, food etc) was 50 euros. This was easy to hit in Spain (many single rooms), slightly harder in France (double rooms the norm - so easy with 2 people), impossible in Switzerland, fairly easy in Germany and Austria and completely over the top in Hungary.
