Thank you so much for that reply - it really gave us the information we needed. Have been thinking we may start in Lisbon. How long did that take (and about how far do you walk each day). Is the route from from Lisbon to tomar interesting ?- from our reading I know I certainly dont want to...
We are intending to walk from Tomar to Santiagos starting in mid Sept. Our Portuguese is non existant at the moment and Spanish pretty terrible, French quite good - is it possible and about how long will it take? What about accom? how difficult is it? We have walked the Le Puy route, the...
My French is very basic. When we walked the Le Puy route i found Tourist infomation centres very helful in booking gites. I usually booked for about 3 days in advance and it worked well. My own attempts on the telephone were rather problematical!! :D
We are planning to do another pilrimage this Sept and are undecided as to whether to do the Arles or the Vezelay route. Have read various web sites about them both but would really love to hear from someone who has actually done either of them and what their experiences were.
Tricia
Gigi I forgot to say there are a growing number of private albergues on the Camino. We found the facilities in these a bit better than the municiple ones (though there is nothing wrong with these) also a bit less crowded - about 2 euros more a night but well worth it and we used these when they...
Gigi I see I failed to answer questions about toilets and showers.
There are generally reasonable showers in refuges. They are in cubicles so if they do in fact happen to be unisex your glorious nakedness is not exposed :) Apart from in Galicia I found them clean
Toilets on the camino...
Woman of a Certain Age
Hi Gigi
You asked about our motivation and previous experience
We live in new Zealand. Beacause of the nature of my husbands job he has gone to a conference in Europe around late Aug for quite a few years we have taken that as an oportunity to also have a holiday...
Hi Gigi
I am a 67 year old woman who walked the Camino last year not alone but having done it would now not hesitate to do it alone. I did in fact meet a couple of momen of simmilar age walking alone (includine one from USA). Albegues take a little getting used to to start with but all your...
We are a couple in our mid sixties walked the le Puy route to Finisterre in 2005 and found it great. We are now keen to do another route and are thnking of the Arles Route. How difficoult is this and in particular what is th situation with accomadation ( plan to do it in Sept). How long are...
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