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  1. Richard DeMerchant

    Camino Aragonês notes and observations April '24

    Thank you for your post. I am hoping to do the route in July and it is good to get an update. I heard about some of the washouts. Buen Camino
  2. JabbaPapa

    wanting to get back on the trail, but knee issues

    ...helped motivate the effort of it. I used knee braces with metal support, and they really helped -- my knees suddenly got a lot better at Lourdes when I started out from there on my 2014, so that they ended up in my backpack, and I've not used them since, but that's not necessarily something...
  3. Pafayac

    Transit to Bordeaux from Canada, and a note about the St. André Cathedral in Bordeaux

    Yes they would, provided that you find some people to stamp your credential.
  4. D

    Transit to Bordeaux from Canada, and a note about the St. André Cathedral in Bordeaux

    My I have a "side question" in this thread! I am pleasantly surprised to learn that one can collect stamp in the Cathedral St. Andre in Bordeaux. Would some Cathedrals in Paris, Lourdes, Marseilles and Lyon also stamp credentials? Many thanks!
  5. Flog

    Camino Aragonês notes and observations April '24

    ...address some of the recent concerns, comments and questions regarding this route, and I hope some might find it useful. I flew from Dublin to Lourdes on the 18th of April, took the train to Pau and started walking from there. A few days on the Camino Arles through Lescar, Oloron, Sarrance and...
  6. M

    Rain during Lourdes -> SJPDP

    Hello everyone, The time approaches for the 7 day walk from Lourdes to SJPDP. We will start next tuesday. However, at this moment the weather forecast isn't encouraging -> rain every day for a week We're having second thoughts because it might be complicated to walk every day while it rains...
  7. Rita Flower

    SJPP accommodation

    Thank you. I guess you had to pay for the Lourdes excursion. How much was it? When you say ‘ just outside SJPP - how many km’s? 🙏😃
  8. Scott Fraser

    Need something to do before Camino

    You probably need two overnights in Lourdes which gives you a full day to poke around. It’s an interesting town.
  9. Purple Backpack

    Need something to do before Camino

    I’m looking at Lourdes, have always been interested in seeing it. But I wasn’t sure if a day and half is enough time.
  10. G

    SJPP accommodation

    ...grocery store, etc., and she even stages pictures of you walking out of SJPP as you begin your Camino. She gave me a history of the Basques. Also, I prearranged with her and she took me to Lourdes for the day. Here is her contact information: Melanie +33782485069 (WHATSAPP)...
  11. Scott Fraser

    Need something to do before Camino

    Lourdes is an easy train ride from Bayonne. It’s an interesting pilgrimage town, but of a different sort than you’ll find on the Frances.
  12. kiwi-couple

    Are you 70+ and still walking Caminos?

    ...walked the Camino Francés in 2019 when were both still in our 60s. Last year, now in our 70s, we walked the Chemin du Piémont Pyrénéen from Lourdes, the Baztan and the Invierno, then, with time to spare before our flight home, we also walked to the Caminos Teresianos - extending it to...
  13. Bradypus

    Crazy things people do in the last 100 km

    ...first learned about the Caminos through my mother-in-law. Barbara walked the Camino Frances in 1985 as part of a group assembled and led by a man who had walked barefoot from Paris to Santiago after a religious experience in Lourdes. Fortunately Kosti didn't insist that everyone follow his...
  14. lt56ny

    Long distances between services on the Aragones

    That walk down from Alto del Perdon is long and I zigzag all the way to put less pressure on my leg joints. As I said to @J Willhaus I misunderstood what he wrote and thought you needed to call ahead. They did ask me about dinner when I checked in. Which as I said in other posts was good. I...
  15. Flog

    Long distances between services on the Aragones

    ...relatively short walk to Arres next day! I really didn't think the descent was any worse than the way down from Alto del Perdon. I'll fly to Lourdes next month and walk by the Arles/Aragonês, perhaps as far as Logroño, before volunteering up in Güemes on the Norte, and I'll probably do a bit...
  16. Vacajoe

    Lourdes as an alternative starting point to St. Jean-Pied-de-Port

    First day out of Lourdes headed west on the Piemonte, there is a monastery complex which has been open to pilgrims in the past - check Gronze to see if they are open post-Covid. If you walk the end of the Arles to the Aragon, you can stay at a monastery in Sarrance. They offer an evening...
  17. jennysa

    Urdos to Somport Advice

    ...river and in many places you cant see out above the trees and riverine growth. Quite a few people take the bus option, but if you are able to do so, I would encourage you to walk it. Lourdes to Somport is a stunningly beautiful route. I could walk it again tomorrow if I got the...
  18. Steve Mark

    Urdos to Somport Advice

    Thanks Rev!
  19. Anthony Rocco

    Urdos to Somport Advice

    We walked this two years after the walk from SJPdP to Roncevalles. They are both beautiful; do not miss it if the day is nice, as it was for us. They are both steep. Combining these two factors, take it slowly, drinking in the beauty. What is different is that peaks tower above you. It's...
  20. jouffroy47

    Urdos to Somport Advice

    It's the 550. Here's the schedule right now. https://transports.nouvelle-aquitaine.fr/sites/default/files/timetable_files/NOUVEAU-SPECIAL%20Hiver-Fiche%20horaire%20Cars%20r%C3%A9gionaux--.pdf

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